Vim Non-Greedy Search

Just a self-post here to help serve as a reminder that the non-greedy search operator for vim is .\{-} instead of the .*? in most languages. This was useful when attempting to replace bad image paths for a template file that contained lots of images that were hosted on various servers and I wanted to consolidate them to get around security warnings. The search command string in vim then ends up as:

:/src=\".\{-}\.\(gif\|png\|jpg\)\"/

This can be combined with a search and replace command as:

:%s/src=\".*\(\/.\{-}\.\(gif\|png\|jpg\)\)\"/src=\"myimagelocation\1\"/gc

Oh, and a super nice thing to know is that you can copy and paste from the cmd line in vim by hitting ctrl-f to open a new cmd window. This is great for saving thost extremely wordy vim regexes that you need to type over and over.

MyBrute

Come get some! (and other Army of the Dead references)

http://kooshmoose.mybrute.com/

I need to learn Vim

Today I stripped out lines not containing a certain string, removed all text but the codes I cared about from every line, sorted the remaining lines while removing duplicate lines and it only took 3 commands.

In short, I need to learn Vim.

8-bit Holiday Cheer

Love 8-bit NES-style music? Love Christmas tunes? Well, in another Reese's moment, you just got your 8-bit in my holiday cheer.

Just in time for Christmas, it’s the full version of 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games. This full release contains 18 tracks total, including improved variations of a few of the original nine!

[DoctorOctoroc.com]

Selling 32GB 1G iTouch

Anyone looking to pick up a slightly dropped 32 GB 1st generation iTouch? I'm going to post it on eBay if no one's interested.

Go Ravens!

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Ever have one of those days...

... where after talking to a friend at lunch you go back and listen to the first album your band ever recorded and you think, "I'd sure like to get the band back together!"?

Yeah, me too.

Star Trek

Wasn't that excited about this until I saw the 2nd trailer!
http://ping.fm/pFJKi

Outlook 2007 Search and RDS Ctrl-Alt-End

I don't know why this is so hard for me to remember, but maybe blogging about it will help.

Searching a date range in Outlook 2007 can be accomplished with the following syntax:
received d:(>=08/01/2008) received:(<=08/31/2008)

Sending a ctrl-alt-delete key combination to the machine you are remoting into is accomplished by pressing ctrl-alt-end.

Quiz me later!

Vista WS4 Bug

I ran into a bug in Vista this weekend. This is really the first major bug I've seen (if you don't count the EXTREME slowness in IE 8b with the Google toolbar loaded) and after hours of troubleshooting I was tempted to go buy another license of XP. The problem was only cropping up when I tried to create a folder, move a file or delete a file. Only. In any of those instances, the Explorer window involved would hang. The file operation would complete, but the prompt or window would stay unusable. If I killed the Explorer process and ran a new instance, then the computer ran just fine until the next rename, move or delete. Then I'd have to kill Explorer and kick off a new process. In short...this really stunk up a weekend where I had several hours of development that needed to be done.

I spent several hours revering to various restore points, but the problem always remained. It wasn't until early this morning that I found a forum post that indicated that Window Search might be the problem. In the case of the forum poster it was an upgrade that solved his problem. For me, I downgraded by uninstalling Windows Search 4. My initial test delete worked like a champ so I went to bed. I really hope that fixed the problem and I can get back to work this evening.