People are always asking "What do you use?" So I figured I would put together a page that details that… Sometimes I like to bleed a little too much, so I figured it would be good to include what I recommend to my mom/mother-in-law. My wife put it "If you are in school (or capable of learning) you should follow *For Me and if you are post school and set in your ways, you should follow the Mom-in-Law column (unless you already comfortable with that, then in Chrome highlight the For Me * column, right click, and click "Search Google for For Me"
If there is a link in *For Me then you should try my suggestion… If the link is in Mom-in-law * then be conservative – you probably know me, so the one that yields less calls is best ;)
| Category | For Me | Reason | Mom | Reason |
| Search Engine | Google Search | Fail to see alternative… | Default setting…. | |
| Social Network | G+ | G+ lets me have groups of friends, and i can follow people I like, with google search awesomeness, and I am there anyways. | Mom can't adopt G+ until her children do. | |
| Phone | Samsung Nexus Galaxy with CM9 GSM nightly | Android for me, because it has more then one button. Either way you are using the cloud. | Apple Iphone | It has one button. |
| IM | gtalk | I can switch from computer to phone to tablet, with text, voice or video. ah and free calling? | skype | so easy a 3 year old can use it… maybe a 5 year old after the major upgrade… |
| Tablet | Asus Transformer Prime (bricked) | I need a keyboard for ssh and my life. | IPad (old) | "Yes Mom, the only button…". |
| Browser | Chrome | Fast, safe, simple… shared bookmarks across computers. If you have an Android phone you *have to * use Crhome. Just start browsing from where you where on your desktop/phone/work. Wow. | Chome / Firefox | Google is installed but sometimes mom finds the Firefox icon first… |
| Laptop | Apple Air | Slim and easy, just works, awesome battery life. Biggest, fastest. | Apple Macbook | Soon she will counter-inherit a Macbook Air… |
| Desktop | Linux Ubba Station | Focus on work, same versions as production systems. Hope for the Linux Desktop (lol)… | "I have one at work…" | Enough said for mom. |
| Language | PHP and C++ for fast | Quick and dirty, and the couple 100,000 lines of code I own… PHP is easy to convert to mod_apache for more awesome and less wicked… | Spanish | So that I dont understand what she is saying… (kidding, it's her first language she can't help it ;) |
| Editor | Wiki | Collaboration instead of *colloberation * | Microsoft Word / Apple Pages | Just like in 99 y'all! |
| TV | Formula1 | Pursuit of Excellence. Performance Driven. Team Performance. | Days of our Lives | …//type-less//… |
| Category | For Me | Reason | Web server | apache | so flexible, so simple, just works…. | |
| Repository | Hg | Patches, TortiseHG, distribution, ahhh…. happy life for dev/release manager… should probably look at Git… | ||||
| Hosting | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Where do you even start? Automation, LBs, Nodes deployed in minutes, Monitoring, Notification, Backups… I like my life to be easy? | ||||
| Database | MySQL | won because of superior documentation, fast, lost of others with examples, grows with you easily… Amazon thinks its pretty good too… | ||||
| IDE | PhpStorm/VisualStudio2010 | Php Stormis what Eclipse/Zend should have been years ago and more… Visual Studio 2010 for C# is like Eclipse with 5 hours of plugin installations – and not slow.. Err. you need to install Resharper and dotCover in 5 minutes and GTG |
I plan to keep updating this, now that it exists, if you want to know what I use, send me an info@dcbl.ca
| Category | For Me | Switched Because… |
| OS | Linux | /etc i can fix with sed…. when is wmic sed coming? and because I am going to run it on everything! |
| Linux Distro | Gentoo | Minimized attack vector. Might switch to Kbutububtua or ChromeBook? Amazon is hugely replacing this. Either need a solid gentoo on amazon or amazon on virtualbox. |
