<p>GNU Emacs 24.5 was <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#Obtaining">released</a> on April 10th. I’m in the process of setting up a dual boot Windows/Linux machine right now as I’m slowly moving away from Mac OS X, mainly because of the cost of the hardware but also because I don’t like it that much as a Unix-y development environment anymore.</p>

<p>Stuff you find that shows you’ve been around this programming business for a while:</p>

<p>I’m generally more of a grep person but sometimes it’s easier to just use the built-in search in Visual Studio, especially if you want to be able to restrict the search to parts of your Visual Studio solution. Visual Studio does have pretty powerful search built in if you do use regular expressions instead of the default text matching. Here are a couple of regexes to get you started:</p>

<p>As I mentioned in <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/03/02/improving-my-blogging-workflow-using-emacs-of-course/">yesterday’s post</a>, I’m trying to improve my blogging workflow by using org2blog to draft my posts before pushing them to my WordPress blog. When I posted yesterday I had the basic workflow going, could edit posts in Emacs, save them, update drafts and push them to WordPress. The last piece that was missing was getting spell checking to work.</p>

<p>I try not to post too many metablogging posts. Other people do it better and I’m trying to focus on journalling what I learn as a software engineer and manager, not what tools I use for blogging. However after losing another post to WordPress’s built-in editor I decided Something Must Be Done. I think this is only the second post I lost, but it’s a fairly regular occurrence for a journalist friend of mine and I really don’t have that much time to retype blog entries…

<p>Over on <a href="http://bitbashing.io/">bitbashing.io</a>, Matt Kline has an interesting blog post on how <a href="http://bitbashing.io/2015/02/16/shipping-culture.html">Shipping Culture is hurting us</a> as an industry. Hop over there and read it now, because he addresses another case of the pendulum having swung too far. Your developers take a long time to get a new version out? I know, let’s make them ship something half baked. Quality is overrated anyway. Especially when you…

<p>We all know good people who can’t get a job for some odd reason, but whenever I find myself on the other side of the table I am amazed at how people don’t even bother to follow a couple of simple steps to massively increase your chances for a response. Yes, a lot of big companies seem to have their jobs email address hooked up directly to /dev/null but small companies still make up the majority of the software development landscape. With a small(er) company, there’s a good…

<p>I encounter this on a fairly regular basis - a project uses a third-party library and there is either a bug in the library that we can’t seem to avoid hitting, or there’s a feature missing or not 100% ideal for our use case.</p>

<p><a href="http://xania.org/201410/debugging-with-jsbeeb">Debugging an intermittent problem with a some demo code in the Javascript BBC Master emulator</a>. I love the hard core bit fiddling.</p>

<p>I recently <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2014/11/01/finally-trying-out-a-64-bit-emacs-on-windows/" title="Finally trying out a 64 bit Emacs on Windows">blogged about installing a 64-bit build of Emacs for Windows</a> because I was dealing with a bunch of large and very large files.</p>