Mike's Blog
Sexy Technologies
Here is my current round-up of technologies that are still getting my blood pumping. The irony here is kind of intentional because not many of these are widely considered to be that sexy. Hint: From an engineering perspective I believe best practices usually trump new and shiny.
The Happy Messenger
This is probably the most long-winded blog post I have ever made but that’s what blogs are for, right! I had the idea in the bath this morning and it was probably due to the strong coffee I had drunk, which I bought from an independent coffee bean outlet in Camden, from which I (uncharacteristically for me these days) sampled again, because we’re out of decaffeinated tea at the moment. The idea was for a start-up that takes the shape of a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to bring global stories to the forefront of people’s attention that concern the successful collaboration between corporations and charities (and other not-for-profits) in the fight against the effects of globalisation, global economic instability and environmental issues... phew!
JSON Files and emacs
I got tired of emacs not knowing I was essentially editing javascript files while writing JSON so I started to look into JS2-mode until I realised it was kind of overkill. Then I saw this comment that suggested telling emacs to use the inbuilt syntax handling for javascrpt for json files too!
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.json\\'" . js-mode) auto-mode-alist))