Trent's Tech Tips

Just yesterday I was watching a webinar titled: "Fill the Glass: Measuring Software Performance" which featured Jorge Rimblas. You can check out the video on Vimeo at the following URL:  https://vimeo.com/140068961 . It's just giving an insight into a project Jorge is working on, giving various tips here and there - so if you have a minute (rather, an hour) to spare, go and check it out. One of the sections that particularly caught my attention was the fact Jorge was able to compile packages from his editor of choice (which is Sublime text editor) (this happens at around the 18:20 mark). Because I like free (and open source) software, I actually use Atom text editor. Being centred around a plugin ecosystem, I was curious how he was able to do this - and if in fact I'd be able to accomplish the same, in Atom. So, first of all I did some hunting to see how it was done in Sublime. This led me to this great post by Tim St. Hilaire -  http://wphilltech.com/sublime-text...

If you have been following my blog, you may have noticed the desktop environment I use is the Ubuntu distribution of Linux. Growing up, I always tried Linux here and there, but never stuck with it - it was more just to try out. As with anything, if you are going to use something new, you really have to commit to it - pick a period of time you are willing to use it for, and see how you go. If you still don't like it at the end, go back into your old ways. (I will add that I did once upon a time own a Mac. Actually, I purchased a Powerbook right before Apple made the switch to the Intel CPU architecture. I know Mac OS X seems quite popular in the development community nowadays, however I still prefer to be able to select my hardware, and I believe I get that freedom and also get a bit of Software freedom by running Linux.) At around 2008 - actually, soon after I started working with APEX - I had a couple of colleagues that were running Ubuntu. Since I started developing with Or...