<p>The “latest” ACCU magazine showed up a couple of days ago after a minor delay:</p>

<p>As a bit of an RSS junkie - see previous post - I had to go look for alternatives to Google Reader. I’ve been a <a href="http://www.feedly.com/">feedly</a> user on and off for a few years but I was never that taken with it. It does seem to do mostly do what it says on the tin and having various tablet apps available for feedly is a good thing, but it tends to run into a few issues with high-volume feeds (craigslist feeds, I’m looking at you). Mind you, the reoccuring Craigslist…

<p>Happy New Year to all readers.</p>

<p>I generally don’t post that much about the tools I use as they’re pretty standard fare and most of the time, your success as a programmer depends more on your skills than on your tools. Mastery of your tools <em>will</em> make you a better software engineer, but if you put the tools first, you end up with the cart before the horse.</p>

<p>Let’s just make a small change to the requirements, I mean, what could go wrong?</p>

<p>Now that’s awfully close to the mark for those of us who’ve work on trading systems:</p>