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Is the iPad Worth it? My Initial Thoughts

January 28, 2010 · 5 comments

We can all breath a sigh of relief that nearly a decade worth of rumors can now be laid to rest in the face of an actual product announcement: the iPad. With the iPad Apple says it is trying to create a new product category, but I think of it more as a merging of a netbook and tablet. Here is a sampling of my thoughts on this new product. [click to continue…]

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Back to GitHub

January 2, 2010 · 0 comments

My brief adventure into consolidation and total control with redmine (projects.jonsview.com) has come to an end. As of today, all of my open source projects are back on GitHub. I decided to move back because GitHub will provide greater exposure and provide more accessibility than I can provide within my time constraints. I think this will benefit everyone who wishes to use the applications I’ve written, and hopefully encourage others to improve them.

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Review of the Decade: The Social 00′s

January 2, 2010 · 1 comment

A new year and decade are upon us, and I’m in the mood to reminisce about the decade that has just passed. [click to continue…]

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Animated Mandelbrot and Friends Team up to Fork Some Code

November 2, 2009 · 0 comments

In an all new episode of “What’s Jon up to?” Redmine, Animated Mandelbrot and friends team up to fork some code. Will the team be able to defeat the odious Crash and catch the heinous Exception? Will they be able to traverse the crevice of Reliability? Tune in to this weeks episode to find out! :-P

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Mac OS X Resource Forks

August 21, 2009

What are resource forks in Mac OS X? How can they be used? What applications are using them? Are they being deprecated? Are developers encouraged to make use of them? Are they the future? Why is there a lack of up-to-date documentation? These are just a handful of questions that I had about the underlying Mac OS [...]

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Reasons Why you Should Avoid Citibank

July 19, 2009

If you’re looking for a new bank, I would recommend staying as far away from Citibank as possible. Unfortunately, I did not have the luxury of choosing the bank for this particular card due to my employer, but perhaps the following story will save others who do have an opportunity.

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We Choose the Moon

July 16, 2009

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum is virtually re-enacting the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. They have put together an incredible web application that will take us from launch to the actual landing on the moon in real time. They will even be making twitter updates as historical events occurred throughout the [...]

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Google Summer of Code Development Blog

May 24, 2009

Update 1/1/2010: I have archived the development blog. It is no longer available. Interested in tracking my progress on the Drupal Media project as part of my participation in the Google Summer of Code program? Head to http://gsoc.jonsview.com. Don’t worry about the blog being over you head. Updates will be short, sweet, and easy to [...]

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