Rohan Almeida’s Blog
Perl Developer. Linux Advocacy. Practicing Guitarist.

I recently purchased a Laptop after a break of nearly a year. I’ll always be a desktop guy, but you can’t beat the benefits of having a laptop.
Anyway, I noticed that the battery pack which comes with the Laptop is never fully charged. I remember this was identical to the IBM ThinkPad I had […]

If you use VIM’s sessions feature, to restore a session, you can just type

$ vim -S

This will look for the Session.vim file in the current directory and load the previously saved session.
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After much deliberation and budget crunching I finally made up my mind and bought a Line6 POD XT around a week back.

And you can read more about it here - POD XT
To be honest, I’ve not really dived into it yet, but I’m more than pleased with what this processor can offer. Recording guitar sounds […]

Email has now become the tool of choice for quick and effective business communication. From the biggest companies to the smallest start-up, we all use email daily to communicate with Our Clients as well as for internal team communication. Although email does lack the collaborative feature, its the best tool for one-to-one communication. Did I […]

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You can accomplish this in Windows too by installing cygwin or the various tools mentioned in this article.
This rant is more about the Linux way of doing things, rather than fighting over which OS is better.
I’m not implying that I’m smarter or better than you. Thats for you to decide.
There might be better ways […]

I thought I’d let it out here so I can come back to it in the future. Yeah, blogging is definitely therapeutic!
This is a list of stuff I don’t know yet and would like to know more about it soon.

I don’t know how the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) works
I don’t know how web browsers […]

Wow! This is so nice. The Higher Order Perl book is now available as a free download.
I’ve really missed out on my readings of good programming books, although I read lots of articles on the Web daily. But nothing like having a well thought out and concise book to motivate and educate you even […]

svn diff the current windows file
Put this in your vimrc:

map zs :!svn diff % > /tmp/vimsvndiff<CR><CR>
  \ :new<CR>:r /tmp/vimsvndiff<CR>
  \ :set ft=diff<CR>

Say you’re editing a checked out file and what to see what changes you’ve done without leaving your VIM session? Just type zs when in normal mode. This will open the diff in a new split […]