Christopher Warner "So, it's not like the code is my brain; keep it"

My entire workflow is now OS X – I’ve made the switch – Blog Catchup

It is done, i know a lot of you may be shocked but i've switched my entire workflow over to OS X. Even my primary desktop workstation which has run Linux explicitly since 1994. The reasons for this are numerous including but not limited to:

• Consistency in my desktop experience.
• Stability in regards to underlying system components
• An aesthetic visual experience across the board
• Things like GDB seem to just work

These are just some of the reasons but all in all I haven't been doing much Linux only programming anymore. My workflow has been revolving around photography, videos and web programming. That combined with the fact that I do own trinkets such as an Ipod and it was time. All that said, this doesn't mean that i'll no longer do Linux it just means that it's no longer the choice for my desktop at home. I'm not doing any kernel work or contracts, etc etc. I am not going to rehash arguments heard round the various ml's and web in general but suffice to say. It just doesn't work for me in this space (home). However, at work my primary workstation is a Linux desktop and will most likely remain so but after this weekend of full on immersion, in a 30 inch experience apple may steal me away The old workstation will be turned into a retooled OpenSolaris workstation because thats where the new exciting shit is going on, for me anyway. (Thanks to all the people over at Sun who linked to my commentary as positive criticism; I just came across some of the commentary and i'll do an update on that stuff soon I hope)

As far as opensource is concerned there are things that i'm still working on. So Gnomeweb-plone hack day is this Saturday and we'll finish the portlet stuff from 2.x and move from there. Email out about this later on tonight, swear-it. I'll be at the 3 day Plone conference this coming October and hope to see everyone and do some cool stuff. For World Plone day I was invited by the New York Plone Users Group to speak for the NYC scene (this is November I believe). Which was a shock to me because I had no clue one existed. Up until now I thought all of my Plone sister/brothers lived in Europe Definitely attending a meeting ahead of time and hope to have an outline for that first week in September. This will primarily be my work with Plone at New York Media (yes, I really do work here, and no it is fun, we need more people like me there so why not come over?) There are special use cases we have but largely i'll be speaking on the process and politics surrounding content management and maybe a brief overview of where Plone is being applied.

Ahh yes, about the machine; I bought myself a 8 core Mac Pro with most of all the goodies with the only sad thing being that it has an ATI card. Which I swore off of ATI sometime in 1997 and haven't purchased anything since. I really should of gotten the Nvidia card but it would of been special order and I don't have time. It would of been another couple months before I got a free weekend to do something like this. I've decided to keep the default keyboard and mouse to see if I could get used to them. Only because of their aesthetic factor initially but the keyboard actually seems to be pretty nice after a day of hacking on it. 

The speeding addiction has finally caught up with me and now lawyers are involved and all these shenanigans. According to people in the know the case is to be dismissed. I may have to actually either get track time or do any speeding I do; out-of-state. If anyone knows of any decent tracks in the greater TriBoro area or NYS or whatever hit me up; again, I actually need it now. Getting a case dismissed is expensive, but I found out the justice system is a total farce; all you have to do is spend more money and make "donations" to the right peoples campaigns. That's all I'll say on that.

Upgraded wordpress, someone or one of you l33t hackers tried to implement some form of change to my footer file stuff via Apache process to overwrite the file and boost your page ranking. This is the problem with PHP but suffice to say it worked because I changed the permissions to the Apache processes in that dir for some reason. Of course I was notified and I made the appropriate changes; lame. Luckily I have php stuffed with the Suhosin-Patch or it would of been A LOT worse

Anyway there's much more I wanted to say but I can't remember. I'll do that the next Blog Catchup in a couple months.

About Christopher Warner

Christopher Warner is part genius, part idiot. This makes him well balanced. He's worked on numerous opensource projects with great people and has generally led an eventful and fulfilling life. He hopes to retire an old man in a rocking chair should he be so fortunate.