VimConf

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Post by flippingbits » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 1:50 PM UTC

VimConf
vimconf.org

Re: VimConf

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Post by davedx » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:09 PM UTC

550 lines of css! I hope he has ctags :)

Re: VimConf

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Post by petercooper » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:09 PM UTC

Separate to Vim, this concept should become more popular. Real world conferences have their place, for sure, but some topics are avoided as they probably wouldn't break even, and seeing more things like this would be great.

Re: VimConf

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Post by illuminated » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:11 PM UTC

When I saw the URL my first thought was that it's a collaborative repo of vim's conf files, snippets, etc...

Re: VimConf

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Post by bulte-rs » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:12 PM UTC

illuminated wrote: post #4

When I saw the URL my first thought was that it's a collaborative repo of vim's conf files, snippets, etc...

That's what dotshare.it (no affiliation whatsoever) is for. The whole idea sounds nice though.

Re: VimConf

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Post by joeybeninghove » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:12 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #3

Separate to Vim, this concept should become more popular. Real world conferences have their place, for sure, but some topics are avoided as they probably wouldn't break even, and seeing more things like this would be great.

Totally agree Peter! Having given a couple webinars over the past few weeks, I think there is still a lot of room to grow for these types of online events! I'm hoping this sparks interest in other online conferences in those smaller niche subjects that historically may not have drawn a crowd to a physical location.

Re: VimConf

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Post by joeybeninghove » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:17 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #3

Separate to Vim, this concept should become more popular. Real world conferences have their place, for sure, but some topics are avoided as they probably wouldn't break even, and seeing more things like this would be great.

In fact, that's one of the reasons I'm working on building CastingCode.tv (http://castingcode.tv) as a platform to serve both ad-hoc and organized live coding events to the web. :)

Re: VimConf

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Post by wingerlang » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:19 PM UTC

Signed up. Id like to use vim since i like the concept but it seems so damn hard to get into. The post yesterday "learn vim progressively" was interesting though.

Not sure i know what it is though. I really like VS debugger and programming in C#, C++ (both with VS). So, what exactly will i give up if i switch to vim?

Re: VimConf

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Post by PedroCandeias » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:26 PM UTC

Cool idea. Signed up. I've been using vim just for editing config files remotely and now I'd like to start exploring it a bit more.

Re: VimConf

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Post by dadro » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:33 PM UTC

This event looks promising. Interacting with other Vim users really helped me get over the initial Vim learning curve. For any devs that use OSX and want to test the Vim waters, checkout Vico (http://www.vicoapp.com). It is a Textmate-esque editor with Vim bindings.