Brad J. Lamb of 'Big City Broker' on HGTV
If you live in the core of Toronto, chances are, you’ve seen his face on billboards around you or at least his name plastered on some new upcoming condo project. He is the man behind the uber-trendy King West, and the man behind the now very successful
Lamb Development real estate group. His name: Brad J. Lamb. His show:
Big City Broker.
Yesterday I watched my first episode of the show on HGTV and I was not disappointed. I have to say that we’ve been following the Toronto real estate market a little more closely lately, as we are looking for a new place to move in, and this show painted a really good picture of it. What made it a lot more interesting than any other real estate shows was that it gave you a tour of what really happens on the other side of the table, with a twist of glamour.
Here is what HGTV has to say about their own show:
Explosively compelling and addictive, Big City Broker focuses on the angst and joy, the dramas and intrigue that make up Brad J Lamb’s world of property sales and development. Who knew that buildings could be so sexy?
Well, in any case, you can be sure I’ll be watching (or taping… does anybody still uses that expression?!?) this show next Wednesday (at 8pm).
Here’s a useful vi trick that turned out to be a real time saver. It’s a set of commands you add to your vimrc file (on windows) that will recover the cursor’s last position when the file was last closed. The original tip was found on the vim wikia, which is full of those very useful vim tricks. Give it a try!
" Tell vim to remember certain things when we exit
" '10 : marks will be remembered for up to 10 previously edited files
" "100 : will save up to 100 lines for each register
" :20 : up to 20 lines of command-line history will be remembered
" % : saves and restores the buffer list
" n... : where to save the viminfo files
set viminfo='10,\"100,:20,%,n~/.viminfo
" when we reload, tell vim to restore the cursor to the saved position
augroup JumpCursorOnEdit
au!
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if expand("<afile>:p:h") !=? $TEMP |
\ if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
\ let JumpCursorOnEdit_foo = line("'\"") |
\ let b:doopenfold = 1 |
\ if (foldlevel(JumpCursorOnEdit_foo) > foldlevel(JumpCursorOnEdit_foo - 1)) |
\ let JumpCursorOnEdit_foo = JumpCursorOnEdit_foo - 1 |
\ let b:doopenfold = 2 |
\ endif |
\ exe JumpCursorOnEdit_foo |
\ endif |
\ endif
" Need to postpone using "zv" until after reading the modelines.
autocmd BufWinEnter *
\ if exists("b:doopenfold") |
\ exe "normal zv" |
\ if(b:doopenfold > 1) |
\ exe "+".1 |
\ endif |
\ unlet b:doopenfold |
\ endif
augroup END
