Luke ‘n’ Bill

So I’m sitting here at work (don’t worry…I’m not charging this time to any clients) between a couple people that I never thought would start becoming the norm vs an extremely sad exception. Developers doing there development work on Macs aka TrendMachines. As any piece of hardware out of the Apple marketing monster is, the Apple laptop is just as much a piece fashion as it is a functional tool.

Someone needs to fill me in on what’s happening here. Are macs becoming that standardized that they are a viable development option…even at the application development level? I can see it happening more where I’m at, because of the fact some of our developers are starting to come from the “web person” role being moved into “web development” instead of where I come from “computer science/application development” moving into “web development”. So they already using their machine to do photoshop designs and media editing instead of strict development. Also in web development I can see it more due to the fact the “IDE’s” consist of EditPlus and firefox plugins for the most part versus the usual machine intensive Visual Studios of application development.

This all hit me in the last few weeks when I went out to the North American eZ Publish Partner Meeting in Chicago and saw 3 or 4 developers using there Macbooks at the meeting and then our newest developer being hired on requesting a Macbook vs a PC laptop. On top of that, Joe, is switching to a Macbook from his Linux based PC. What gives?

Current Developer Count:

• 2 PC’s (Deane and I)
• 3 Macs (Joe, Ben, Tim)

…we’re losing ground fast.

Seriously…I’ve been a fan of what KTM does for a while. That’s right, take that Reid! Stemming from when I rode/(lightly) raced motocross in high school. Although I’ve never owned a KTM (only Yama’s and Hondo’s for me)…I’ve always wanted one. Cut to about a year ago when I hear about the X-Bow! This speed freak will has a 220hp Audi TFSI engine strapped to it giving it enough speed to make you loose your sack lunch you ate in turn 1 and get around the track in time catch it in the visor on the way back around! (was that too much? I felt like I may have gone too far).

Now…again thanks to the boys at AutoBlog I see it’s ready for it’s first shot at the racing circuit on April 20th. I’ll be patiently waiting over at YouTube for the videos. Catch ya’s later!

I have slowly developed a bit of an interest in cars as of late. I definitely wouldn’t categorize myself as an aficionado by any stretch of the imagination, but I do enjoy oogling at the cars the ever fascinating minds in the automotive industry come up with. One that I’ve followed a fair bit is the Bugatti Veyron. It’s really just seeing how outlandishly exotic and excessive a car can be. With break neck speeds and wild engineering one can’t help but drool….and now even purchase!

Then we’d direct you to Innovation Cars, a UK-based luxury car broker that is currently listing no less than 11 Veyrons available from locations around the world (mostly in the Emirates, probably) in a variety of trims.

My always interesting blog line from AutoBlog brought this to my attention and with that many of them being sold….some one out there must want to send one my way!? How about you, Mr. Sanford? That whole hospital gig’s got to be getting old by now!

If it isn’t for the reason I find myself sitting at work until late into the night not realizing what time it is, it’s now when I’m sitting here at 9:26pm realizing that I have just spent the last 3 hours putzing around on my blog and not realizing what time it is.

Haven’t decided if it’s a bad thing or not, but who’s judging