Anselm HookInterview
MakerLab hacker, CTO of Meedan
Adapted from Anselm Hook's interview on Uses This, published 22 April 2009. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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2) Second to that is my MacBook Pro.
3) Third is my iPhone - again a spectacular device that has literally changed my life.
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I have a soft spot for OpenBSD in part due to the strong philosophical stance and resultant code quality and integrity that my friends there enforce.
Coding & Development
In terms of development frameworks I feel Merb is best because it consolidates the model in one place and allows different database handlers.
In hands-on-work I reach for Ruby.
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We also have some hardware in the cloud at EC2 for our FoodGenome project.
For my desktop I've switched to Apple OS X (grudgingly at the prodding of my girlfriend) but have had a completely superior experience and it has changed the way I work.