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Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers
As a follow up from this year’s ApacheCon:
I had 30 people in my Lucene Boot Camp training class this time around and I would guess that at least 15 were on Apple laptops (50%, well above the general Apple market share).  I also would guess that there were more Mac [...]

Bad DVI on Viewsonic vx2025wm

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Had a strange thing happen to me this morning with my Viewsonic vx2025wm.  I was busy setting up my new Mac Pro and copying files from my old G4.  Finally, I shutdown the G4 to take some of the old drives out so I could move them into the new computer (which I couldn’t do [...]

Craplets and new PCs

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal shares his insights into setting up a new PC in his column: Personal Technology — Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal
I, too, have been struggling with a new PC, this one from Dell.  It is a brand new laptop, graciously sent to me by my work [...]

Waiting for PC

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Hmmm, I started rebooting my new Dell laptop running XP 30 minutes ago (Powerpoint had crashed) and it still has not finished the shutdown process.  Nice.  Beautiful computer, crappy Operating System.
Funny thing is, I’m a Mac guy.  I tried to get work to send me a new Macbook Pro, but the IT guys wouldn’t hear [...]

Enterprise Java Community: The Mac as a Java Development and Execution Platform

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Enterprise Java Community: The Mac as a Java Development and Execution Platform
Is Walmart.com running on Apple? Or at least being developed on Apple? Interesting article on performance on Macs for development by someone at Walmart.com. Perhaps the most interesting statement is the first one, where the author states that most of his [...]