Preloading Ajax data as JSON has helped
improve the load time and perceived performance of our family software application.
Most of the pages in our web client are dynamically generated
in the browser from a complex set of JavaScript and CSS,
so we're always looking out for ways to make them appear more quickly.
More at the Cozi Tech Blog.
Tomas Restrepo wrote a post about
sharing dotfiles between Windows and Ubuntu,
specifically about sharing .vimrc (Linux) and _vimrc (Windows)
and the .vim (Linux) and vimfiles (Windows) directories.
I have a different solution.
On Windows, my C:\AutoExec.bat includes:
set HOME=C:\gvr
set VIM=C:\Vim
set VIMDIR=%VIM%\vim71
set EDITOR=%VIMDIR%\gvim.exe
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Win32app;C:\GnuWin32\bin;C:\UnxUtils;C:\SysInternals;C:\Python25\Scripts
%HOME% (C:\gvr) contains _vimrc, vimfiles,
and other stuff accumulated over many years.
This directory is stored in a personal Subversion repository at DevjaVu.
All my Vim files are stored with Unix LF endings, not Windows CR-LFs,
so that they'll work on my Mac OS X and Linux boxen.
I play some games with if has("win32") and
if has('gui_macvim') to ensure that my _vimrc
works cross-platform.
On my *nix boxes, the gvr folder lives under my home directory at ~/gvr,
and ~/.vimrc and ~/.vim are symlinks:
$ ln -s ~/gvr/_vimrc ~/.vimrc
$ ln -s ~/gvr/vimfiles/ ~/.vim
In addition, the dotfiles that I keep in SVN are stored locally in
~/gvr/dotfiles without a leading period in their names,
which makes them easy to see:
$ ln -s ~/gvr/dotfiles/bashrc ~/.bashrc
This arrangement works well for me.
