Robin Camille DavisInterview
Digital librarian, web developer
Adapted from Robin Camille Davis's interview on Uses This, published 4 December 2012. 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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I use an iPad 2 (in a Dodocase) mostly to read PDFs and when traveling to conferences.
My iPhone 5 is a fifth extremity.
To that end, I back everything up onto two local external hard drives, a Western Digital 2TB and a 1TB Seagate.
For reading, I use a Kindle 2, though my preferred platform remains paperbacks!
Communication
When building websites that require a CMS, I stick to WordPress or Drupal.
Fun: I manage five Twitter accounts using Tweetdeck.
Productivity
Information organization: I open Microsoft Office as little as possible.
Notes
Most of my word processing happens in Evernote, either online or in the app.
Coding & Development
My favorite FTP client is Transmit, from Panic.
I use Git from the command line for version control.
Text: Python comes in handy often, since I do some text processing and mining.
Design
Media
Rdio is my go-to for music.
Storage
Backup and transfer: Apple's built-in Time Machine is all right.
I've been using Backblaze for a few months and am satisfied.
I also use Dropbox as a file transfer and sharing service.
Other
Currently, we are redesigning the main library website and migrating everything into Drupal.
Web technologies: I love oXygen, the XML editor, for most web development involving code (not just XML).
For usability testing and other screencasting, I'm trying out Adobe Captivate.
And I just discovered that LIMBO, the most beautiful game I've ever had the pleasure to play, is available in the Mac App Store.