Apple News: How the iPad mini is defining Tim Cook’s Apple
“At the start of the month I discussed five key features of the iPad Mini launch that would define Tim Cook’s Apple and illustrate the strategic direction that Apple would be taking in 2013 and beyond under his leadership,” Ewan Spence writes for Forbes. “Now the details are confirmed, let’s revisit them.”
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Technology News: At the moment, Microsoft Surface is hot
As of this weekend, Microsoft has a hot product on its hands. Reviews notwithstanding (some have been pretty negative), on Friday my local Microsoft store in Century City (in Los Angeles) was buzzing with curious customers keen on trying the Surface RT tablet, as lines snaked outside. Other stores drew crowds too.
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Programming News: When Should I Use Protected Method Visibility In Ruby?
When I’m reading Ruby code and I come across the protected keyword, I spend a moment taking a deeper look at the interface of the object using it. Protected method visibility is targeted to a very specific and seemingly rare use-case in Ruby: methods defined as protected are only callable by other objects whose class is of the same defining class or its subclasses.
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Photography News: Why Do You Choose Cameras?
Time for a poll. I had a friend, an accomplished photographer, who hated cameras. He had no end of trouble with them, and he only put up with them because of the results he got. If you’ll grant me that many people choose cameras for reasons other than the results they yield—because of the system that’s available for them, the selection of lenses and accessories that you might buy one day, the way they handle, their technology, their recency (they want the latest thing), their capabilities (for instance, they want a camera with a certain package of features), their prestige, their looks, their history, who else used them, how handy they are, how pocketable they are, how pleasant or easy they are to use, how much their friends admire them—what’s most important to you? Just the results in the file or on the wall? Or other factors?
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