In 2001, or maybe it was 2000 2002 I purchased my first Apple computer. I bought a Powerbook 15inch with the G4 867MHz processor. Some of you know the model I refer to or even have seen me with it before in the past.  Not long after I purchased the Powerbook I got the wife an iBook 12inch notebook.  She got a lot of use out of it but it started showing its age.  Honestly the machine got to be so slow I couldn't even stand to help her with her problems.  Remember the commercial about the Slowsky's that...

The other day I was playing on my aging Powerbook and thought I'd investigate writing applications on Mac OS X using XCode.  I tried several years ago but honestly after reading some documentation on Apple's web site I wasn't any better off than when I started.  Instead of going the documentation route which didn't work I thought I would try a different approach.  Today we have something we didn't have years ago that is a lot better than documentation and that is called videos.  They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words.  Well a video is worth that times...

That is the message Apple is sending to its enterprise customers with the release of its new Leopard operating system according to reports coming in from Java developers.  Apple isn't supporting Java 6.0 on Leopard and there are tons of problems even running the IDE on previous version.  Enough to drive one Java developer away from Apple completely and others screaming when is Java 6 going to be supported. It makes you wonder what Dale Frantz (pictured left) is going to do as a CIO who switched his entire company over to Mac OS X as reported in Computer World back...

It seems that an article I wrote a while back is making its way around the Internet once again.  It never fails that once a year or every 6 months it pokes it's head up from the ashes, dusts itself off and finds new readers.  The article I'm talking about is this one: How an Open Source Developer Transitioned to .Net It is an interesting read and if you haven't read it, check it out. I started getting lots of emails from readers last night and this morning as the article was passed around.  One person emailed me a question...

Alfred Green who does a Podcast show called AG Speaks interviewed me a month or so ago and he finally got the Podcast posted up to his site.  I've known Alfred for several years where we first initially met at the Washtenaw Linux Users Group in the late '90's.  The interview will probably give you more information about The Elder than you'll ever want to know.  I've always found it interesting to know how people came to do what they do and the thought process that went into it.  This interview will provide you a lot of that information.  We...