We have decided to start pushing education and different technologies by giving away educational material on every 1st and 15th of the month.  There is no catch, but be sure to read the directions below on how to enter.

Book topics that will be included in the giveaway are:

• CakePHP
• Ajax (in particular JQuery)
• MySQL
• No-SQL Databases (ie. Mongo, Cassandra, Couch DB)
• PHP
• Zend Framework
• Project Management
• (Possibly More)

To be included in the drawing for each part of the month, you simply need to post a tweet that mentions Loadsys (@loadsys) and tag it with CakePHP (#cakephp).  It would also be helpful to follow us so you can get notified when we draw the name.  We will only ask for more information privately when we need to ship out the book.

Although it won’t help you, clever or off-the-wall tweets  are perfectly fine.  Just make the mention and the tag.  Be sure to let all of your friends on Twitter know if they are interested in winning.

(Example Tweet:  @loadsys Please Please Please give me a #CakePHP book. )

Drawings will be done at Noon Central Standard Time (-5 GMT / -6 GMT).   That means tweets performed between 12:01 on the 1st through 11:59:59 on the 15th will be in the 15th drawing…for example.

Good Luck!

So, you are venturing into the cool crowd by playing with vim.  You are a developer that is used to GUI editors and are not really a shell kind of guy/girl.  Or, maybe you have been using vim for a while and are just used to closing out a file before moving onto the next one.

Having a background in Linux due to my past experience as a Sr. Oracle DBA in Linux environments, I became a Linux command line guru fast.  Using vim as a text editor is very powerful, but what would be even more powerful is being able to switch from file to file quickly and easily.  Below, I’m going to give a visual how-to on multi-tasking in a Unix Shell environment.

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