I've stepped into the land of emacs.

samantha — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:25:00 -0500

While I was originally going to post a relatively pensive post on how much it sucks that time goes faster the older you get, I decided to post on technological stuff instead, sparing my 5 readers the agony of reading a post filled with Gen-X angst. :) So, now onto my latest adventures in technology.

Emacs – I've been dabbling with emacs as of late. I really like it. I was using vim, which is awesome in its own regard, but the key bindings of emacs just seem more natural to me. I'm sure I could pimp out vim to have emacs key bindings (I know I can, there's stuff to do that with), but I like emacs. So, we'll see. It's a process, I suppose, finding just the right editor. I love Komodo Edit, but sometimes I'm at the command line looking at stuff and it's just more convenient to go into emacs or vim. Anyway, I like it a lot. I have done some customization and we'll see how the next week or two goes with it.
MySQL and Relational Databases – I've been reading up about schema design and MySQL. Let me just say, while my last post discussed my fascination with relationships and databases, that said fascination does not extend into reading about relational database theory. Really. I know there are whole books about it, but just point me in the direction of a good 10 page best practices "do this, don't do that" pamphlet and I'll be good. But, all in all, I'm getting a stronger understanding of how things fit together and how relationships work.

That pretty much sums up my latest focus. I'm still doing stuff in perl – much of my MySQL focus is so that I can work with DBI functions in perl with MySQL.

mindful iterations: I've stepped into the land of emacs.

I've stepped into the land of emacs.