Coders knew Vim for the last twenty years for its unmatched efficiency in editing source code. Vim wasn’ t too popular in the Rails community until lately when Tim Pope published his plug-in: Rails.vim. This plug-in and Vims legendary extendibility made it the editor of choice of many programmers who used some proprietary applications in the past. The plug-in offers shortcuts for easy navigation between files, makes it possible to run scripts, generate controllers, views, do some refactoring, and do auto completion , all of these from Vims cosy interface. Some people say that it is the least user friendly text editor ever. While these accusations might be partly true, because of the rather steep learning curve, many programmers just liked the way Vim helped them do their work quickly and efficiently.
Enough said lets see how to create a very simple blog in Rails from Vim. [Read more…]
How to move your WordPress.com email subscribers to WordPress.org the easy way
Moving from WordPress.com to self hosted WordPress.org is not the same as moving from Blogger to WordPress. The one thing which concerns any user in moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is the fear of losing the huge chunk of email subscriber he/she might have earned in his/her popular WordPress.com blog. Everyone wants to retain their previous readers list but the problem is that none of the standard feed service like feedburner or feedblitz provide an option for importing the email list. [Read more…]