Bit of Random

Turkey Pig

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:26:32 -0400

Turkey Pig

I made it into the Uniqlo Flagship store and loaded up on $9.90...

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:13:39 -0400

I made it into the Uniqlo Flagship store and loaded up on $9.90 jeans

Instead of the apple line, I’ll be at Uniqlo line for...

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:19:50 -0400

Instead of the apple line, I’ll be at Uniqlo line for their NYC flagship store opening

I prefer ice cream over fruit

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:07:28 -0400

I prefer ice cream over fruit

Great, my phone is at the bottom of the list. I can’t wait...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:16:58 -0400

Great, my phone is at the bottom of the list. I can’t wait for the Galaxy Nexus

What is this all about @soho

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:57:44 -0400

What is this all about @soho

Great now I can’t see my bus schedule

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:21:11 -0400

Great now I can’t see my bus schedule

Pictures taken around my neighborhood in Brooklyn/Belt Parkway...

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:06:00 -0400

Pictures taken around my neighborhood in Brooklyn/Belt Parkway the morning after Hurricane Irene visited NYC

Spell that name

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:16:00 -0400

Spell that name

Dream Laptop: Ultra-thin 15-inch Macbook Pro MacRumors please be...

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:32:59 -0400

Dream Laptop: Ultra-thin 15-inch Macbook Pro

MacRumors please be true, I have been dreaming of a 15” macbook air for the longest time. Christmas can’t come sooner.

Apple rumored to be working on ultra-thin 15-inch notebook PC

Some good Vim tips

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:24:44 -0400

Finding your way in vim (66 points) - http://pulse.me/s/TcOW

Gotham Ruby Conference Videos

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:22:23 -0400

Gotham Ruby Conference Videos

Hanging out at a ruby meetup on soa

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:26:03 -0400

Hanging out at a ruby meetup on soa

Being Cloned

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:47:56 -0400

We launched our daily deal wallet a while back and because it’s been so popular, sites are cloning us. Welcome to the daily deal space.

Check out our original design

And checkout what one of our competitors launched recently (even the copy is very similar)

Both sites got good press on TechCrunch, but guess which article got published first.

Article 1

Article 2

Citypockets station at silicon alley job fair

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:26:54 -0400

Citypockets station at silicon alley job fair

Do you love deal? Probably not if you are Rocky Agrawal Why...

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:04:00 -0400

Do you love deal? Probably not if you are Rocky Agrawal

Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse

Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”

Google Offers Is A Cheap Knockoff

Why I Want Google Offers And The Entire Daily Deals Business To Die

Morgan Missen: Where are all the women in tech? On Tumblr!

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:56:55 -0400

Morgan Missen: Where are all the women in tech? On Tumblr!:

mrgn:

Tracy Chou, Google and Facebook Intern turned Software Engineer at Quora

Caroline McCarthy, CNET writer turned Googler

Aubrey Sabala, Googler turned Consumer Marketing at Facebook

Melissa Miranda, Co-Founder of Journly

Lauren Leto, Co-Founder, Texts From Last Night and…

Wow groupon stepping up their game to acquire new users. Is it...

Thu, 26 May 2011 13:26:25 -0400

Wow groupon stepping up their game to acquire new users. Is it worth it for me to create new accounts and refer myself?? Very tempting

Top 10 Programming Fonts

Wed, 25 May 2011 10:58:59 -0400

Top 10 Programming Fonts

I am switching to VIM

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:21:00 -0400

For my Rails development, I have been using TextMate to code. TextMate is a lightweight IDE and has some powerful commands, although I am not taking full advantage of all the snippets. One thing I realized about TextMate is that I end up using the mouse a lot which can be somewhat distracting when I am in the zone, so I have been wanting to switch to an editor that uses the mouse less like emac or vi.

Today I randomly came across an old post from Yehuda Katz Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong. The article made me want to give vim another chance. Vi is not the problem because I used it back in the IBM intern days when I had to work on AIX and Solaris machines (ie no mouse), so I know the vi commands well, but the problem is I don’t know how to manage projects through vim. After reading the article, I learned that to make vim useful, I need to install plugins like NERDTree and Command-T. These plugins will transform vim into a useful project manager.

Then this evening I met Steve at Ruby Hackfest who uses vim to code. I asked him for tips using vim and he told me that I should fork his project to get all his vim config files. What a lifesaver this is, cloning his project and then running ./setup automatically installed all the useful vim plugins. I recommend anyone who is transitioning or beginning to use vim to make use of this setup. This will save you a lot of time looking for the right plugins and setting up the environment.

Update: My friend Jacques just told me about https://github.com/carlhuda/janus seems very promising. I am going to give that a shot.

I am excited that I can now code without making use of the mouse, this is going to be fun.

Additional References:

1. http://www.catonmat.net/blog/vim-plugins-nerdtree-vim #Good to have plugins

2. http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html #Vim graphical cheatsheet

3. http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/100-vim-commands-every-programmer-should-know #100 useful command