I may have to get an iPad...

This new PHP IDE for iPad (http://www.becomekodiak.com/) may convince me finally to get an iPad - unless they come out with an android version.

Rubber Duckie

Rubber Duckie you're the one

That makes my code time so much fun

Rubber Duckie you're so fine

The bugs in my code, you help me find...

I saw this today and had a great laugh.  While I personally haven't used a rubber duckie, I've many times had the experience of explaining somethin to someone else and realizing a problem with my design, or code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

CentOS is great but not for laptops

A recent CentOS kernel upgrade on my work laptop (Dell Inspiron M5010) caused my WiFi driver (which was flakey to begin with - and that was using the manufacturer supplied linux driver) to stop working entirely.  Got fed up with problems including suspend being one way (you could suspend, but not un-suspend), and finally committed to reloading the operating system.  Just for curiosity I tried a hackintosh distro, but that didn't even load.

Decided to go with the most progressive distro that was the most compatible with the environment (RHEL) that I was used to, and chose Fedora.  Installed Fedora 17 and was pleasantly surprised that everything worked - well, almost everything.  After the initial DVD install, it locked up before the graphical login prompt, so I had to CTRL-ALT-Fx over to a text window, log in, and yum update it.  But after that, everything was super.  WiFi worked, no patches, no loading kmod-compat-wireless, or firmware files, no checking messages for failure messages, suspend works in both directions.  Actually is a functional platform.

I'm a bit thrown by the differences in the latest Gnome - using mouse position instead of a clickable area to bring down the menu, and then the tablet-like and ios-like interfaces.  I'm still getting used to that,  but I think I like it.  The biggest problem is that ALT-TAB switches between applications, but not subwindows without further arrow key manipulation.  I'm so used to a quick ALT-TAB to flip back and forth between two windows, without regard to them being the same type (xterm vs chrome for example) that this is going to be a difficult adjustment.  Worst is that I see no control panel UI option for reverting to previous behavior, which I would definitely choose to do if I could find it.

TL;DR For linux laptop, use Fedora not CentOS.