James GoslingInterview
Software engineer (Java)
Adapted from James Gosling's interview on Uses This, published 11 November 2010. 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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For everyday stuff and while traveling, I use a MacBook Pro with 4 gigs of ram and a 256 GB SSD disk.
I've got a Mac Mini in one corner that's just used for household stuff: taxes, the checkbook, and the home automation system.
It's got a Wacom tablet and a 3Dconnexion mouse.
For camera gear my main camera is a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
I also have an Olympus STYLUS TOUGH-6020 for snorkeling and other situations where getting submerged is likely (canoeing).
A Mac Mini for my wife and an iMac for my youngest daughter (the older one is out of college).
Productivity
The home automation system is a pile of INSTEON switches spread all over the house, controlled by Indigo running on the Mac Mini.
For doing presentations, I don't use any of the usual software: I wrote my own years ago.
Coding & Development
Design
My main graphics tool (the thing that I use for things like creating all the JavaOne t-shirts) is NewTek LightWave.
I also use Photoshop a fair amount and Illustrator occasionally.
Media
I use Aperture to organize photographs.
Other
It runs OpenSolaris and has 5 2Tb drives: mirrored with a hot spare for a total of 4Tb of usable storage.
An Acer netbook running Ubuntu when I want to travel light.