Posts Tagged "learning"

We are a small team but even so there’s quite a mix of interests, personalities and even food tastes amongst the members of messaliberty. One reason I joined messaliberty was that I would have an opportunity to learn more things in my chosen fields.  Usability, IA, online marketing and so on. Learning by doing is a big part of working at a start-up. I asked the team what skills they are looking to learn and master.  Here some of things they mentioned. Har: Ruby on Rails *nix/Server administration AIR apps development English Ice: Ruby on Rails Pragger (Plagger for Ruby) Advanced Emacs Lisp Haskell GIMP/Inkscape Movie editing Self-management English Chapp: English Finance Ruby, RoR, Ruby Shoes Marketing Business administration WordPress &...

If you are learning to use vi or vim, one of the recommendations is not to use the arrow keys (cursor keys) but instead use the hjkl keys.  There are two main reasons for this: Speed.  After you learn to use the hjkl keys, they are much faster since your hands can stay on the home row. Universality. In some older systems, vim may not be installed and the original vi doesn’t use the arrow keys. But if you are just starting to learn to use vi, how can you force yourself to use the hjkl keys?  The easiest way is to disable the arrow keys, which is simple if you know how but hard if you are just starting out. To disable the arrow keys, the best way is to use the key remapping functions and save these in your .vimrc file.  If like me, you use Windows, OSX...