Mactel Newbie thoughts!
I just recently purchased a Mac Mini and was barely able to score OS X on the cheap, since I purchased it just before OS X was released.
My main interest was the fact that it's based on Unix and I've always loved to play with it and Linux and felt this would be an easier way to keep my playground well stocked! :)
I totally think the announcement of the use of Intel chips in future Mac's very promising! If Apple is only making their money by locking in people to their own hardware then they need to diversify!
In reality, I think they need to not limit themselves to strictly Intel, but move completely x86 compatible and open the doors to AMD as well. There's no extra effort involved, in fact, it's the quite the opposite!
Why not compete with Windows head-on full force now? I think it's time to put up or shut up! Get rid of all the barriers and try to level the playing field!
With mono coming along well .NET should also be pushed into multi-platform even more so! If the whole goal is supposedly integration, let's make it happen.
So far, as a developer, I've yet had the time to accomplish anything on the Mac. Granted that's because of a lack of time at the moment to focus on anything other than .NET! Since I can spit out .NET code so easily now!
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.