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10 June 2007
Parallels Desktop for Mac 3.0

Parallels recently released version 3.0 of their Parallels Desktop for Mac software . While the integration between Mac OS X and Windows in the previous Parallels release were good this release makes it even more seamless. Parallels is definitely still my favorite piece of Mac software at the moment... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Apple, Mac, parallels

04 May 2007
Windows Longhorn Server Beta 3

Last night I replaced my Windows Vista based development Virtual Machine with a fresh new Windows Longhorn Server Beta 3 installation. I've always preferred using a server based OS for development instead but this is the first Longhorn build that feels solid enough to run as a development machine. Wikipedia... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Vista, Mac

01 May 2007
Silverlight, DLR and other MIX07 Announcements

While yesterday was a pretty quiet day at the MEDC, next door at MIX07 things were certainly happening. The more interesting announcements included Silverlight 1.0 Beta, Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and the Dynamic Language Runtime but there were also several other announcements including the release of Expression... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, WPF, Apple, Mac, RubyOnRails, Ruby, DLR, Silverlight

30 April 2007
OR Tambo Discount...

I've got a couple of minutes to kill before departing to the MEDC and while I'm waiting for the boarding call I thought I might as well share a small airport tip/hack that can save you some money in the duty free at OR Tambo Airport. At OR Tambo/Johannesburg International there's a promotion to encourage... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Personal, FunStuff, Mac

18 April 2007
Xcode C# Support

Jaume Llarden created a Xcode plugin to enable C# development from within Xcode, Apple's IDE for OS X, using the Mono compiler and Xcode build tools. In the current build he supports proect templates and build targets for .NET Console applications, class libraries and Cocoa# applications. Basically everything... Read More...

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Filed under: Mono, C#, Apple, Mac

01 March 2007
Mac Applications for Windows Users

In my previous post I mentioned that I recently bought a new MacBook Pro . Coming from a mostly Windows background my initial plan was to use Apple's Boot Camp to dual boot with Vista and spend most of my time using it as standard Windows Vista notebook in nice packaging. Well every now and then one... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Apple, Mac

27 February 2007
Ecto - Test post

Seeing that me and Thea will be spending a lot of time traveling Europe next month I bought myself a shiny new MacBook Pro last week and I've been settling in and getting used to working on OS X the past couple of days :) (A full post on this later). One of the things I was looking for was a blogging... Read More...

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Filed under: General, blogging, Mac