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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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- Comfortable PHP editing with VIM -4-

  It's nearly 4 month ago now, since I last blogged about my .vimrc (the main
  Vim config file) and the recent enhancements I added to it. This time, I go
  a step further as in the last 3 parts: I wrote my first own Vim script. :)
  Beside that there are as usual some other great enhancements and tips I
  collected over the past 4 month and I already have an idea of how to proceed
  and what I need more. But first, I'd like to give a brief changelog between
  version 1.3 and the last version:

- Do you hate modelines?

  I personally hated them for years now and never really managed to build one
  on my own or find satisfying information on the net (especially regarding
  widescreen resolutions). You know, XFree86/Xorg modelines really suck.
  Thanks to Matthias Hopf (who I met on Linuxtag) and Jakob Westhoff (who
  reminded me today) I now about the tool I ever wanted to have: $ gtf. :)

- Jesus loves me... and VIM too! ;)

  Found via my referrer stats: http://www.jesus.com.au/html/page/vim.

- Useless, but really damn cool....

  By moving to Dortmund and joining the local PHP user group here, I got to
  know Kore Nordmann, who is also working for eZ systems right now. He is a
  really cool geek and we're getting along amazingly good, regarding work,
  open source and private stuff.

- Fighting trackback spam on PEARWeb

  Trackback spammers only needed a couple of weeks to discover PEARWeb's new
  trackback feature for their purposes. Of course I had to do something
  against that, which sadly lasted very long because I've been much too busy.
  Last week I finally managed to release Services_Trackback 0.5.0 and migrated
  the PEARWeb code to the new version. Until now, trackback spam seems to be
  stopped. Ususally there was a huge number new spam trackbacks on PEARWeb per
  day, since last Tuesday there was not even 1.

- Finally: Services_Trackback 0.5.0

  I finally managed to upload the next release of Services_Trackback (which is
  a generic class for sending and receiving trackbacks). The most important
  new feature for this version is integrated spam checking. Services_Trackback
  now implements a flexible API to add spam detection modules to a trackback
  using

- Comfortable PHP editing with VIM -3-

  It's time to continue my series, since I again updated my .vimrc in the past
  weeks for much more comfortable editing of PHP sources using VIM. There are
  several new features I added:

- I love WiFi!

  I really love it: I'm currently sitting around in a car repair shop and have
  to wait for about 2 hours for my car to be repaired. Dead time you think?
  Not really, since a T-Online-Hostspot is available. :) I wish there would be
  WiFi all around the world... And maybe even a bit cheaper! ;)

- Enhancing firefox... -2-

  Seems like I currently have an affection for continuations. After the sequel
  to my entry "Comfortable PHP editing with VIM" now a sequel for a much older
  entry follows.

- Comfortable PHP editing with VIM -2-

  I updated my .vimrc regarding the comments posted for my first entry about
  "Comfortable PHP editing with VIM". You can see and download it here.