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Don’t bother with that degree, say IT pros

By Lee on October 2, 2011 in Current Affairs

Interesting tidbit posted by The Register last week. It’s a topic fairly close to my heart as I don’t have a degree. I do, weirdly, get asked about this quite a bit – “should I get a degree?”. If you think you should, you should. Don’t let any “IT pro” sway your decision.

This is especially important now that degrees are just so damned expensive. According El’Reg, you’re looking at £27k for your degree. Wow!

Personally, when I look at people’s CVs, the first thing I’ll do is Google them. Then, I’ll take a look at their Github profile. Then I look at their education. It’s important that if they did a degree, they did well – but it doesn’t matter if they didn’t do one at all.

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TechCrunch give TweetDeck for iOS a ‘fly’

By Lee on April 29, 2011 in iPad, iPhone, Programming

Very proud of this. TechCrunch do a Fly or Die review of the TweetDeck for iOS that I’ve been working on at TweetDeck for the last 3 months. They give it a fly.

The new TweetDeck for iPhone still lets you add as many columns as you want and swipe through to view different streams, but you also get a unified Home column, which can combine your Twitter and Facebook streams into one. The app has nice subtle touches, such as the diagonal swipe to see more Tweets from the same account (my favorite). And instead of timestamps cluttering each Tweet, the timestamp changes at the top as you scroll through your stream. If you want to jump to the top to the most recent Tweet, just tap the actual time (yeah, someone had to point that one out to me too, but these are the kinds of hidden features power users love).

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Dropbox authentication: insecure by design

By Lee on April 8, 2011 in Linux, Mac / OSX, Operating Systems, Web/Tech, Windows 7

I have tested this, and can back up what Derek is saying. It is more than a little worrying – but also easy for the Dropbox guys to fix.

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PAYG Sim Cards with data the world over

By Lee on April 6, 2011 in Random Rants

I would like to declare this the most useful page on the Internet… EVER – thank you @skr.

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Browser Power Consumption

By Lee on March 30, 2011 in Mac / OSX, Operating Systems, Random Rants, Web/Tech, Windows 7

Ignoring the IE9 propaganda – just for a second… LOOK CHROME REALLY DOES SUCK. Google really have their work cut out there. As more and more people get laptops, the battery usage of the browser needs to be looked at more closely. Also of interest how Safari fairs on Windows there – someone should do the comparison of browsers on Mac.

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BT, TalkTalk in court seeking axe for Digital Economy Act

By Lee on March 23, 2011 in Current Affairs

Whether you do ‘naughty things’ on the Internet or not – this is important and should be watched more closely than it is. I suspect that it won’t get much media coverage though.

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Making Twitter more secure: HTTPS

By Lee on March 15, 2011 in Random Rants, Web/Tech

This really should be the default. If you use Twitter, you want this.

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Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It

By Lee on March 15, 2011 in Mac / OSX, Operating Systems, Random Rants, Web/Tech

I have now done this on my Air and I’m more than happy with it. Safari is a dream. DF is updated with a few recent update for things like Chrome linking etc.

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