A Look at the Value of the Original iPad

October 4, 2011

When the iPad was first announced, in January 2010, I posted an initial outlook for the new device. Nearly 2 years has passed since that article, and since then the iPad 2 has been available on the market for quite some time. The question that I asked was, “is the iPad worth it?” Now it [...]

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5-Minute WebDAV Server for Dropbox and iPad Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

November 23, 2010

This quick guide will get you set up with a secured simple WebDAV server using Ruby and Rack. The idea is to make your Dropbox accessible through WebDAV. This enables secure saving of documents from the iPad iWork apps back into your Dropbox account.

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Is the iPad Worth it? My Initial Thoughts

January 28, 2010

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 [...]

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Back to GitHub

January 2, 2010

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 [...]

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Review of the Decade: The Social 00′s

January 2, 2010

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

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Animated Mandelbrot and Friends Team up to Fork Some Code

November 2, 2009

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!

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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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