Tag: technology
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Tech Links
OOPS. I periodically publish a tab sweep. Sometimes (like now) I draft and forget to publish it. This post should have been published in mid-June. MuPDF is a better PDF reader because it opens large PDFs faster than evince. Geeqie is an image viewer that offers side-by-side comparisons of images. Apple announces Swift 2 with…
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Tech Links – May 29
Three open-source Python shells. Don’t catch Exceptions. I must have known why I always do rescue => boom to catch exceptions. The reason is that Ruby makes that shorthand for rescue StandardError => boom. Nifty. libgrader: find quality gems for your next project. It knows about two of my favorites gems: pericope and titleize. (Unlike…
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Ten Years
Ten years ago this month, I quit my job in order to go to seminary. Here’s what I used to work on: My job was to figure out how to avoid paying to fix them when they weren’t broken.
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Resistance is Futile (iPad 2 edition)
This is pretty much how I feel, too, especially the final thought: Motorola and Samsung…they’re both large companies with a lot of buying power and strong brand recognition. The problem is, they don’t understand the game that Apple’s playing in the mobile space, so they’re playing it wrong. They’re so caught up in catching up…