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…]
Ubuntu 11.10 Release Schedule
The Ubuntu lovers might want to synchronise their calendar with Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) release schedule which goes as follows:
June 2nd, 2011 – Alpha 1 release
July 7th, 2011 – Alpha 2 release
August 4th, 2011 – Alpha 3 release
September 1st, 2011 – Beta 1 release
September 22nd, 2011 – Beta 2 release
October 13th, 2011 – Final release of Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.10 is the 15th Ubuntu operating System. And like 11.04 it will have Unity as its desktop environment.
How to access Linux files from Windows
Its really easy to access Windows files from inside Linux but its not the other way round. Windows does not provide support for native Linux file systems like ext2 or ext4. A very useful utility to access Linux files or partition from Windows is Ext2explore. Though it does not actually mount the partition inside Windows like Linux does but it does provide a way to access the Linux files, in separate explorer.
- All you have to do is download Ext2explore from here.
- Unzip the file.
- Run the executable as Administrator.
- Here you can see your Linux partition
Here are few screen shots:
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