sacha chua living an awesome life

(let ((old-hook local-write-file-hooks))
    (with-temp-buffer (add-hook 'local-write-file-hooks 'foo))
    (unless (equal local-write-file-hooks old-hook)
      (error "Failed test. local-write-file-hooks was modified in this buffer."))
    ;; Let's put things back the way they were
    (setq-default local-write-file-hooks old-hook))

On This Day...

• 2012: Pub nights and thinking about networking at events — One of the lessons we took home from the Quantified Self Conference in September was the importance of a pub [...]
• 2012: Planning how to learn about validating business ideas — I’ve been taking notes at business events and sharing them on my blog. People tell me that they really like [...]
• 2011: Weekly review: Week ending October 21, 2011 — Back to work! Transition was smooth, thanks to some weekend time spent catching up with mail and getting things ready [...]
• 2010: Drupal Features and Drush: updating our development workflow — I’m working with two other people on a Drupal project, so we’re coordinating our work through a Subversion source [...]
• 2009: Vacations and the introvert — What’s your ideal vacation? Many people would probably describe an idyllic retreat on a pristine beach. Others dream of action-packed [...]
• 2008: Catching my breath — I just came back from a trip to Boston that was jam-packed with interesting conversations and connections. The cookies were [...]
• 2007: Why Emacs — Now that I’ve joined the wonderful world of the office workplace, I find myself missing my Emacs-based life. I miss using Emacs [...]
• 2007: Practice evangelist — I joined Aaron Kim and Bernie Michalik’s team in IBM last week, and I *love* what I’m doing. It’s such a [...]
• 2006: Emacs presentation was a blast! — Had too much material (of course), but had tons of fun anyway. =) Blew people’s minds. Yay! On Technorati: democamp
• 2006: Hello world — This is a blog entry On Technorati: democamp Random Emacs symbol: eshell-script-load-hook – Variable: *A list of functions to call when loading [...]
• 2006: PBJ 1.0 — Kudos to the presenter for structuring the presentation for quick and early audience participation, and for taking on the challenge [...]
• 2006: Demo Camp: Broken Tomb: The world’s first commercial Smalltalk host — Look! It’s the Demo Camp of the Living Dead Languages! =D Smalltalk is a fun language. I ran into it when [...]
• 2006: Demo Camp: Quotiki — Quotiki has live search for quotes, which would be good if it was more responsive. For example, the search “caesar” just [...]
• 2006: Demo camp: Online grading and code review — The online grading and code review system demonstrated by Greg Wilson‘s students from the University of Toronto is really cool, [...]
• 2006: Excited about my DemoCamp presentation! — I’ve written a totally small-time presentation thingy that cues me thanks to Emacspeak. ;) Here’s the setup code: (progn ;; Setup [...]
• 2005: Argh, keycaps — A book fell off my shelf and knocked off the keycap for 4. It also dislodged the keycap for T (Y [...]
• 2004: Debian BOF — Slideshow of people from the Debian project. Debianメンテナへの道 http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~ohura/ ~40 Japanese DDs - Philosophy and procedure - Tasks and skills 公開鍵 – public key
• 2004: Translation BOF — Lots of people use Emacs. Way cool. Edict’s apparently the best way to look up things. I had hoped that a [...]
• 2004: OO.o demonstration — catch. Community Manager Louis Suarez-Potts Changes: Misc toolbar moved to the bottom. Toolbars now draggable and dockable, like MS Office. Tweaks to the toolbar [...]
• 2003: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. — Got this error when installing grub. grub-install --recheck /dev/hda fixed it. Switch to 2.6 kernel and all…
• 2003: Emacs annoyance — I’ve tracked it down – make-variable-buffer-local needs to be done..
• 2003: Bah. mozilla-psm is segfaulting on me today. — Downgraded to testing and held.
• 2003: Internet and E-Mail on a dialup using linux — http://www.hserus.net/exim.html
• 2003: Paranoid mail servers — Our school mail server is particularly paranoid. Whenever I am on campus, I have to use it as my smarthost, but [...]