Wintel Whore!
April 13th, 2006 Yes that's right i headed off to "BootCamp":http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ to learn me how to run Windows on my MBP. They say "train hard fight easy":http://www.navysealteams.com/thfeseries.htm and a session at BootCamp makes the fight easy. In a couple of hours, i had re-partioned my disk giving over 24Gb of FAT to Windows and had XP up and running. No more painful than installing Windows on a bit of Dell-a-ware. Of course I quickly ran Windows Update, installed Norton, sacrificed a chicken and turned around 42 times and luckily avoid getting any nasty viruses (although the chicken was looking a bit pale so I may catch "UK birdflu":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2005/bird_flu/default.stm) So now i have a dual-booting super-fast WinBookPro. What shall i do with it... probably "this":http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009XH4CK/ref=br_lf_li_1_2/026-5535442-8421258
The MBP
March 13th, 2006 Things are going well with my new MacBook Pro (the MBP). Its fast, its slick, its bloody hot. I mean really, there are parts you should not touch. On the top near the power plug, around the hinge. Damn could cook an egg on the thing. Also had a few problems with some builds. So the benefit of my experience. * Don't use "Darwin Ports":http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/. Build everything from source if you can. Some of the stuff i installed off darwin ports just didnt work on the intel macs. Better off compiling it from scratch * On that use "make -j2". No point having dual cores if you don't use them both for compiling. * "Eclipse":http://www.eclipse.org/ didnt work for me. So i've moved to "IntelliJ IDEA":http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/, which has a Universal version for Macs. Apart from that no real complaints. Got a nice "iCurve":http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/icurve/ for my desk after i saw it on "Robby Russell's blog":http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/04/the-art-of-the-start-low-costs.
Apple is to Ruby On Rails as Sun is to what?
February 28th, 2006 I see that apple have added a brief "intro tutorial":http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html to "RubyOnRails":http://www.rubyonrails.org. This proves what is quite apparent in the Rails community. Railers love Macs. It's quite obvious though, RubyOnRails development and Mac OS X go well together. The UNIX command line capabilites of Mac OS X work well as an environment to interact with a Rails application. So does the default command-line tools such as *ssh* and *svn*. But mainly its because Mac asthetics complement Web2.0 applications. And Railers are all about asthetics. So Apple need to take this ball and run with it. Become the _sugar daddy_ corporate backing for Rails. A job that Sun does for Java, without all the licensing revenue. So Apple ditch WebObjects and come over all RubyOnRails. First step make sure ruby, rails and lighttpd come ready installed with Mac OS X. Maybe a nice gems maintenance cocca application. The a Mac OS X Rails IDE, come on Apple buy "MacroMates":http://www.macromates.com you know you want to. And then redevelop the Mac site and store in Rails!
Rotten Apple
February 16th, 2006 The good news. Well they have upgraded my MacBookPro order from 1.87 GHZ to 2.0 GHZ "free of charge":http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/14/apple_macbook_pro_processor_boost/ although there is now a 2.16 GHZ version available so it won't be the fastest on offer. The bad news. They have put back the deliver by date to the 7th of March. Damn You Apple!! UPDATE: Its shipped!! Should arrive before the 24th!! nice one Apple
MacBook Pro and Fries
January 12th, 2006
Havn’t blogged in a while but it’s been holiday season and I’ve been in Spain. More to come though i think.
For now I’m happy with the fact i have ordered my new MacBook Pro and i wait with feverous anticipation.
Not only that i went for the hard-core model too.
MacBook Pro – 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo SuperDrive (DVD-RW/CD-RW) AirPort Extreme Card & Bluetooth ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 – 256MB GDDR3 2GB 667 DDR2 – 2×1GB SO-DIMMs Backlit Keyboard & Mac OS 100GB Serial ATA drive (7200rpm)
swoon
UPDATE: Feb 15th says Apple. I sure hope so.
DOUBLE UPDATE: Apple nows says will be shipped on the 15th but arrive on the 22nd. Why the week?
No Safari in Google Analytics
November 28th, 2005 I added "Google analytics":http://www.google.com/analytics support to liverail.net as soon as it started. Unfortunately new subscriptions are closed as they increase capacity (look. see. this is what happens when you give things away for free) What they don't seem to tell you is that the analytics reports don't work for Safari on the mac. The reports just dont appear. I think a few people are waiting for their reports figuring it is a Google problem, try "Firefox":http://www.getfirefox.org/. That works just "fine":http://www.liverail.net/files/googleanalytics.png