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.
Still, more on Object databases
Since my rant on tuesday, I came across this informative presentation on Object databases (requires flash) by a company called Franz for an object database called AllegroCache. AllegroCache uses LISP which is well; it's LISP but the points the presenter makes about object databases are extremely important. Circa August 2005.
I'll be at a meetup on the Sun Microsystems campus here in NYC for a presentation on Geo-Temporal and Social Network Reasoning with AllegroGraph. AllegroGraph is made by this same company Franz so it should be interesting.