12.14.06

Busy

Posted in General at 2:18 pm by Soabirw

Been so insanely busy at the new job (funny how it still seems so very “new” even though I’ve been here 7 months). So I haven’t been able to touch No-Homers. Even had this Rails version mostly functional 3 months ago. Then never had time to do anything with it. Now I’m working on a Ruby on Rails + Flex version that will be delicious.

Everytime I use Expose at work I get warm fuzzies. I behave very differently in OS X then I do in Windows. In Windows, if I wasn’t going to use an app for a while I would close it to free up resources and make my task bar more manageable. In Linux I would just do a lot of virtual desktops. But in OS X, your app management via the Dock and Expose, makes it so damn easy to just load up on apps and always feel like they are at your finger tips. It’s memory management is so much better then Windows too, so I can actually have all sorts of apps running in the baground without taxing the machine too much. Here is a screen shot of my average Expose at work. That’s running on my MacBook with a measely 1GB of RAM. And on top of that I only reboot once a week when I take my laptop home for the weekend. What really kills me is this is nothing compared to our designer running on a Mac Pro. He probably has 3 times as many apps running. When he does Expose, my head almost explodes.

I was always very productive in Linux as well, especially in Enlightenment (or any other non-Windows-like manager). But I think some of the polish and features of OS X makes me even more productive, even without virtual desktops (which you can have, I just don’t see the need in OS X).

In conclusion. I <3 OS X.