Archive for April, 2006

MacBook and world’s smallest screwdriver

April 22, 2006

So my memory arrives from Crucial for my MacBook. Great I think to myself. I'll just pop that in and go run PhotoShop at full speed. I open my tiny Apple users's guide and flip to the section on replacing memory. The booklet tells me that I should use a size 00 Philips screwdriver. What's [...]

beta testing

April 21, 2006

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We wrote TopEverything in .Net and started using Mono to write it. It became clear that Mono was really going to slow us down [...]

MacBook and thoughts on accessibility

April 21, 2006

I have now been using my MacBook for almost a week. One of the features of the Mac that is bringing me over from the PC is the accessibility options provided in the Mac OS. I have poor eyesight and have always considered the options offered by Windows for high contrast to be primitive at [...]

Something I like about .Net

April 18, 2006

After spening an intensive month in January writing asite using the Spring MVC, I then was assigned to a project to build a similar web site using .Net 2.0.
There's lots to compare but one thing I like about .Net is that it is VERY easy to cobble together a page that simply displays query results. [...]

Which Office?

April 13, 2006

Which is the better choice on the Mac? OpenOffice or NeoOffice?

MacBook Pro

April 13, 2006

Yes I'm moving to the MacBook Pro for Java development. I ordered the standard system on Wednesday and should receive it on Friday. Expect a couple of blogs detailing the move from Windows. I won't be running Microsoft Office since I can't afford it so I'll be looking into OpenOffice.
I read an article in the [...]