Vim Cheat Sheets on a Mug

I’ve been thinking about some promotional material for the company I work for. What inspired me was seeing a vi coffee mug… Unfortunately only available in the US. I’ve been endeavouring to wean myself off textmate and the like so thought this was a brilliant idea. But with limited space, what essential commands should go [...]

Sparklines

“Sparklines: Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics”

If you’ve been reading this blog for sometime, you will know I’ve got a certain penchant for sparklines, a term coined by Edward Tufte and referred to in his book titled “Beautiful Evidence”

True sparklines are meant to be word-like graphics, such that they fit inline with the body of the text, [...]

In. Ter. View. Questions

Well, as a performance test lead I’ve been getting more involved in the hiring process.

To cut through the chaff, these are some of the questions I like to ask potential candidates. What’s your favourite questions? How might you answer these?

I also like to follow up these questions with a half hour practical scripting in VuGen [...]