Jordan Torbiak torbiak

This is a work in progress. If I missed something or someone, please let me know!

Best Practices

It's hard to recommend best practices in general without context, but basically, writing clean, readable code with lots of comments, and doing a lot of automated unit testing, followed by an automated build process using ANT or Grunt to concatenate and minify files is a start.

Twitter

I don't focus much on blogs any more. I focus more on Twitter. If the people I follow there recommend something, I'll go read it. Here's the best of my Twitter list, including developers, conferences, and interesting groups. There are other great developers on Twitter, but these tweet mostly about development:

Developers

Ben Alman

The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

Generalities first

Suppose you have weird taste and you absolutely want:

your visual selection to always have a green background and black foreground,
your active statusline to always have a white background and red foreground,
your very own deep blue background.

	#!/bin/bash
	set -o errexit
	set -o nounset
	set -o pipefail

	source /bath/to/bash-getopt

	foo_dflt="wibble"

	bash-getopt "$@" <<END_OPTS

	require 'formula'

	# export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/5.9/lib/pkgconfig

	class Ncurses < Formula
	homepage 'http://www.gnu.org/s/ncurses/'
	url 'http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz'
	mirror 'http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz'
	sha1 '3e042e5f2c7223bffdaac9646a533b8c758b65b5'

	#!/usr/bin/perl
	# Scan unstaged changes in git tracked files, identify which commits they could
	# be applied to as fixups, and automatically produce the appropriate "fixup!"
	# commits for use with "git rebase -i --autosquash".
	#
	# Copyright (C) 2016, 2017 by Mat Sutcliffe
	# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
	# the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
	# either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.