The other day, I needed to share files with a Windows based computer. I did not have any ftp nor samba server installed on my machine. For some reason ssh did not work either. As a quick solution, I decided to use a trick I saw some time ago. I started a python process which works as a simple HTTP server. Next, I opened a browser on remote machine and connected to my HTTP server and downloaded the files through HTTP.

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This is the follow up for basic emacs setup post. In this post I will explain how to update your emacs setup for web development. I will cover

• Add nxhtml (Enhanced html,css mode)
• Add js2 (Enhanced javascript mode)
• Add jslint (jslint checker for emacs)

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This is the follow up for basic emacs setup post. In this post I will explain how to update your emacs setup for python development. I will cover

• pymacs (Python binding for emacs. This is a ropemacs dependency)
• rope (Python refactoring library)
• ropemacs (Rope bindings for emacs)
• rope-mode (Minor mode for ropemacs)
• pyflakes (passive checker of Python programs)
• flymake (an on-the-fly syntax checker for GNU Emacs)
• flymake-mode (Minor mode for flymake)
• pyflakes error format script
• autocomplete rope integration

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Emacs is a great editor. But it is really hard to set it up. So I decided to write a document for my current emacs setup. In this post, I will explain how to install emacs with a basic setup.

I will cover how to:

• Install emacs
• Enable IDO mode
• Add autocomplete mode
• Add yasnippet mode
• Set window title to full file name
• Install color themes

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Curl is a linux utility that is used to make HTTP requests to a given url. It outputs HTTP response to standard output and is actually very easy to use. Here are some examples to show its usage...

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If you need to pretty print the json output of a terminal command (so you can inspect it more easily), you can use python's json module. I usually use it to pretty print the output of curl command. Here is an example

    :::bash
    curl http://somesite.com/my/json/ | python -m json.tool

This utility can also be used to pretty print json files like following

    :::bash
    python -m json.tool minified.json > prettyprint.json

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