Had my first opportunity to go to the Farset Labs in Belfast. You can find them at Weavers Court, Linfield Rd, Belfast BT12 5GH. The visit wasn’t for the facilities for inventors instead it was the Belfast JS meetup which you can find here. There were two talks after some delicious pizza
Dan Skelton gave an overview of JavaScript functional programming including some examples of the constructs involved. Certainly a subject that will need some further investigation.
Art Knipe talked about his ongoing mission to create shortcuts and efficiency in his development workflow and the reduction in keystrokes possible by simply learning the available functions in Vim and using snippets to preform code for use. Although deprecated by many developers these days Vim shows up on many platforms and is often the only choice on character based systems – so it makes sense to be able to make your way round it. It has at least encouraged me to refamiliarise myself with the core commands for some work thats planned on OS/X which comes with Vi(m) ready for action.