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Scott's Cyber Safety Primer
Lately the topic of cyber safety has come up a few times for me. I'm the point person for CyberChip for my son's Scout troop. I help the Scouts earn the award which is required for the Scout and Star ranks; I've overseen a few Scouts complete the requirements. In addition to this, I've seen how something innocuous that has been posted years ago can come back and be devastating. Lastly, have seen how someone could easily get scammed.
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Review: BottlePro 2 - Adjustable and Extendable Car Cup Holder Adapter
Earlier this year I was given a Hydro Flask as a gift for being a Den Leader in my son's Cub Scout Pack. Why did I need another water bottle? After ignoring it for awhile I decided to see what made it so special. I filled it up with ice and water. It held water and ice, no big deal. The next day I hadn't finished the water and found the water to still be very cold. Since I like drinking cold water, this was the reason to use the water bottle. My only problem was that it didn't fit in my cup holder in my car due to its large size.
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Revisiting Open Source
I wrote about open source about a decade ago and how it can be good and bad. Recently I had a conversation with someone who said he wasn't dogmatic against using open source in certain projects, but was quite cautious. I'd call this pragmatic and is what I'd like to say I am with respect to open source. In my current project, I am the sole developer working on 7 applications at once (6 iOS, 1 Mac) so my resources are quite limited. I use open source because I don't have the time to write some code that isn't central to the apps. However, there are other pieces such as networking, that I've spent the time to write from scratch so that I have full control over them.
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Always learning
Throughout my career I have always had to learn new technologies in order to survive and thrive. New technologies include programming languages, toolkits, and operating systems. While I learned many things in college, the one idea that has been most important to me is the ability to teach myself anything that I need to know.