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Reflections after almost a year since switching to Mac
OK, so it really has only been about 11 months, but with the new Parallels release yesterday, I do feel like one era has ended for me, and another has begun. Keep in mind that I'm an ASP.NET developer, I've built every one of my desktops ever, and generally well adapted to Windows, as most geeks are. That said, here are some observations. I won't say they're free of passion, because frankly the shiny metal boxes have made me enjoy using computers again.
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New Parallels Desktop for Mac... coherence final and awesome!
A little over a year ago, the day that Apple announced BootCamp for the Intel-based Macs, I left work at lunch and went to the Apple store to buy a MacBook Pro. I could finally enjoy the wonders of Final Cut Pro and HD editing with more than enough power for Windows-based development.
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Legit gripe or developer snobbery?
I've been writing about developer snobbery for years on this blog. Would it include this?
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No Mix for me
After much consideration, I decided I'm not going to Mix this year. The first issue is that I can't find anyone to give me an RSVP code, and I don't really want to spend a grand for it. I might have considered it but the content doesn't apply closely enough to what I'm really interested in, I don't think. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but it'd be an expensive mistake to make.
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Where I work: Insurance.com in the news
Where I work:
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POP Forums: Milestone I
So it's a month and a half later than I had hoped (or several years, depending how I choose to look at it), but I finally got POP Forums to the first milestone in the ground-up rewrite.
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Anyone find the calculation for US daylight saving switch?
Due to the geniuses in Washington, we're dealing with a new daylight saving time schedule this year. (Bastards.) That means our clever little apps that translate UTC to local time and back will be broken.
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An ASP.NET AJAX "ah ha" moment
I've been forcing myself to focus on really diving into the meat of the ASP.NET AJAX framework, and today I had a breakthrough moment.
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Jobs on DRM
Steve Jobs says we should ditch DRM...
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Quality time with ASP.NET AJAX
I've been playing with the new AJAX extensions quite a bit lately, and overall I'm impressed. In terms of doing post-back-ish type stuff, it's so ridiculously easy to do everything you did before, only without having the full page refresh. That makes you look like an all-star for almost no cost.
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Is BillG living in a bubble?
I'm a huge Bill Gates fan, and would go as far as to say he was the first reason I went to Mix06 last year. But this quote has me a little concerned...
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CoasterBuzz.com joins Federated Media
While this is largely something that satisfies my ego, I wanted to share that CoasterBuzz.com is now “out” as a Federated Media partner, the firm that represents Digg, Ars Technica, and the ever popular Ask A Ninja. It’s pretty exciting to be in the company of sites like that, even though mine is so much smaller in scale.