Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable. Here's mine. Each has a distinct purpose, and I probably touch each at least a few times a week. For me, "util" means utilitarian and it means don't clutter my tray. If it saves me time, and seamlessly integrates with my life, it's the bomb. Many/most are free some aren't. Those that aren't free are very likely worth your 30-day trial, and very likely worth your money.

These are all well loved and oft-used utilities. I wouldn't recommend them if I didn't use them constantly. Things on this list are here because I dig them. No one paid money to be on this list and no money is accepted to be on this list.

ρEmacs is a preconfigured distribution of GNU Emacs editor for Microsoft Windows. It offers nearly GNU/Linux Emacs experience in Windows with minimum configuration efforts. A set of additional GNU command-line and development tools is available through the network installer.

mintty-colors is a python package that is easiest to install using pip.

pip install mintty-colors

This installs a command-line tool - mtc that let's you control the colors of your mintty session.

One of the biggest obstacles for adoption of Angular in the enterprise is technical, but not of the nature that one could expect.

It's hard to convince our boss to use Angular in our next project if we can't even install it in our own PC ;-) ! We would probably want to do an early demo or prototype to get things started.

But many companies have corporate proxies and security policies that make tools like npm hard to try out for the first time.

One of the biggest features of AngularJs is that it does not come necessarily with all the tooling ecosystem, and can be used via simple script tags. Angular 2 and beyond in principle can also, but we really want to use it together with Typescript, the Angular CLI, Webpack and all the tooling ecosystem.

These notes summarize some of my discoveries (re-)learning GNU Emacs. Since these are my personal notes, it may help to briefly describe my background. I used Emacs on Unix from somewhere around 1990 until 1995. Then in 1995 I began using Windows as my primary operating system and stopped using Emacs. In 2010 I decided to give Emacs on Windows another try. I may not mention some basic things just because I remember them from my initial experience.

hug + hack = infinity

If you are using Prelude you can just use C-c s (prelude-swap-windows). From the Prelude documentation:

C-c s runs the command crux-swap-windows (found in prelude-mode-map),
which is an alias for crux-transpose-windows in crux.el.