VIM and C++
Since I started programming using Qt, C++ is the main language in my day-by-day work. Some of my co-workers recently moved from VIM to QtCreator alleging the code auto-completion (some may call this feature “intellisense”, if they are familiar to MS Visual Studio) in QtCreator is a killer feature.
VIM extension Omni Completion can handle nicely the task when programming using C, but I’m not used to such “technology”: ctags + glancing headers files sounds fine to me, until now, when Qt and it’s classes with tons of attributes and methods came to my life. Today I was trying to remember a method name of a QSomething class and I had the brilliant idea to use VIM auto-completion. So disappointing, I just figured out that there is no native C++ support in Omni Completion.
The Oracle told me about a OmniCppComplete add-on. It took me just few minutes to install and see how cool the plugin is. The automatic “suggestions pop-up” is annoying, but happily you can disable and use on-demand with the old and good ^X^O.
Of course there is nothing new here (first OmniCpp version dates from 2006), but you may be like me and be a bit afraid of waste time testing new VIM add-ons, because most of then are crappy hacks. Only few deserves the honor to be in my .vimrc. So, this is all about encouraging VIM users to give OmniCpp a try and be more effective.
OmniCppComplete in action
In: devel, en · Tagged with: c++, qt, vim
Widescreen x Fullscreen
I remember a long time ago, a friend of mine called Ademar arguing in favor of widescreen video playback. He sent to me a lot of links with irrefutable proofs of widescreen superiority. After this I became a widescreen-fanboy as well.
When I was a SKY (a Brazilian company of cable TV) subscriber, I was used to watch Lost in AXN channel, but when I saw some episodes previews in the Internet, I just figured out that AXN/Sky transmission of Lost is fullscreen. My TV was doing zoom in the image, so it always looked to me like a 16:9 transmission (shame on me, at this time I didn’t care about image quality and TV setup like nowadays).
Now and after I must wait to buy a whole Lost season in stores. Here are some pictures of how the same Lost footage looks in my TV from AXN Brazil (fullscreen) and CTV Canada (widescreen) broadcast.
"Fullscreen sucks" - as said by my friend Ademar
Now you can see the "extra actor" on the left
In: en, nerd, pt_br · Tagged with: fullscreen, lost, tv, widescreen
Blog started!
The first thing to do when starting a new WordPress blog is activate Akismet spam filter. In my motorcycle blog, Akismet prevent me to read thousands gigas of garbage (in the time when this post was written, something about 28.000 comments). I decided to start blogging about this, because I’m curious about how many spam comments are going to be caught after a year of blog activity. This counter bellow is suppose to automatically increment on each spam caught:
