also one of the first videos I made so is paced a bit too slow. Nonetheless for a Confluence plugin developer just starting out it might have a tip or two.What's New
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my all time best purchase
the winner is my MacBook Pro!
It wasn't cheap but the MacBook Pro is a bargain at 10x the price.
This computer + OS X Tiger is just so good I'm constantly in awe of it even after having it for six months. The thought of ever having to go back to a Windows environment for anything more than a couple of apps (like Quicken/Quickbooks) or 2 via VMWare Fusion makes me break out in a cold sweat. I'd sooner be lashed (lightly).
Everyone I know who already used a Mac has said, "You have a keen grasp of the obvious."
I finally made the leap because of Apple's switch to the Intel chip and the availability of solid virtualization software like VMWare's Fusion. The few apps I do have to run in a Windows environment work like a dream. I guess they tried all this in the mid-90s (running Windows on a mac), but finally everything has come together for real.
Here is a short list of my can't live without OS X apps in no particular order:
Skitch
PathFinder - Finder got a lot better with Leopard but PathFinder is much more powerful.
QuickSilver
VMWare Fusion
Freemind
Cyberduck
Adium
IntelliJ IDEA
ITerm
Thunderbird
Firefox
possibly ScreenFlow or Jing (if you could save useful files).
I could go on, but my procrastination break time is over.
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Groovy greatness - scripting, Java, debugging and update it all on the fly!
Jing is good, with one more feature it could be great
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Mar 13, 2008
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Apr 26, 2008
Brendan Patterson
Great stuff. I'd looked at this before I switched to Mac so it wasn't an option. Since then I've created a personal GTD methodology centered around FreeMind (any mind mapping tool would work). I'd also heard David Allen mention he uses mind maps on a Merlin Mann podcast. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm watching the instructional vid. now.
Feb 11, 2010
Brendan Patterson
I've mentioned using a Mac doubles my productivity - here is exactly why:
1) OS X NEVER HANGS. Sure the occasional app hangs, but you switch over to something else and you're on the go again. I reboot on average once per month. Waking up from standby is literally instantaneous.
2) as a developer if I can compile and deploy something in under 10 or 15 seconds I can stay focused, more time than that and I have to switch over to something else - like digg. Windows breaks your concentration constantly. Studies have been done to say it takes ~30 minutes to get into a deep state of productivity. With Windows it's much harder to achieve and maintain that state.
While in that state you can be 2x to 10x as productive.
No one I know of has ever switched from Mac to Windows and said "wow this is better". That's tells the whole story.