When people want a native app, they are asking for an app user experience, which is more complex than the web experience. For instance, users want apps to load immediately. That requires a client side cache, which is inherently more complex than a stateless client. There are no silver bullets to solve essential complexity. Trying to abstract away essential complexity only makes things more complex.
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Ben Sandofsky: Shell Apps and Silver Bullets Based on my own experience and recent discussions with many of my peers, I think this is a very under appreciated point right now in the startup world. Many web-centric managers and engineering organizations are confronting the “essential complexity” of native app development for the first time since Netscape ushered in an age of lightweight clients, and the response is often to try to force native app development into a familiar web-like mold without regard to the differences inherent in native apps. If you want to develop truly great, Apple-like native experiences, be ready to engage with some serious complexity. (via buzz) |
Steve Losh, Vim extraordinaire and creator of extravagant zsh prompts has released vitality.vim, a plugin that brings back focus events to terminal Vim. Focus events are vital if you want to save buffers on focus change, for instance:
" Save when losing focus au FocusLost * :silent! wallSteve has plenty of Vim goodies under his GitHub account and his dotfiles are a treasure trove, especially his
.vimrc. Be sure to check out clam, his plugin for bringing the shell into Vim.
