People who code! What tools do you use? What do you think of them?

I'm asking because I want to up my coding capabilities, and getting to grips with better tools looks like it might be a quick(ish) win. Here's what I'm using.

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I think I've posted here before about how I explained the need to clear out old toys before the Christmas influx to my kids, when they were very young, by using the analogy of apps on a full smartphone or tablet: you have to delete some things to make space so you can get the new ones. It tickled me that a digital storage capacity problem was one ( Read more... )

What do you lot think about console gaming platforms?

What I can gather quickly:
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I beat a roomful of 10-year-olds at Minecraft!

It was at the very excellent National Video Game Arcade in Nottingham, which I totally recommend if you like video games and totally disrecommend if you don't.

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Lots of people are raving about this algorithmic trick to avoid memorising passwords ( Read more... )

My telephone line to the exchange does not go through one of those green roadside cabinets, as most UK people's do, but connects up in the street to a special deluxe pressurised air-filled cable that goes direct to the exchange ( Read more... )

I've been looking around for robots for kids to control. I am increasingly convinced that jobs in the future will be either ( Read more... )

I think there is a tech bubble and it is going to burst soon. Where 'soon' could be anything up to several years.

I vividly remember the moment in 2006 when I was struck firmly with the thought that we were smack in the middle of a credit boom and the bust was on its way:not only in the grips of a consumer credit boom, but that the bust is not far ( Read more... )

I've been struggling to understand my phone's recent behaviour, and I've suddenly come to an important reconceptualisation of what's going on ( Read more... )

I was musing about getting a NAS for backups, inter alia. Thanks all for input. I'm now completely convinced that's a mistake. What was I thinking? Running a high-availability/reliability service yourself is impossible to do at the rate someone can sell you the service these days, thanks to economies of scale ( Read more... )