Microsoft SQL Server on the agenda too

I've not gone completely to the 'white' side with my Mac ravings you know... We're still doing a lot of work on the PC/Microsoft Windows platform at the moment. In particular we're heavily involved in a new business project that focuses on Microsoft SQL Server. We've been heavily involved with one of the largest Microsoft SQL Server installations in Europe in the last few years and that experience is definitely coming in handy.

More on this in the next couple of weeks - suffice to say we're working with a great team and it's all looking rather exciting...

It brings back memories

The year I graduated from university was the year that the cognitive scientists and some newly self styled user interface experts spent the year attending conferences around the globe and writing learned journal papers on the Edit menu on the Mac. Thousands of words were written on what order Cut, Copy, Paste should appear and whether the actual actions really made sense. Given the ubiquity of the actions now it all seems rather funny - especially since I notice that I've still got to drag a CD onto the Trash Can to eject it on the new iMac with OSX.

That Apple thing has happened to me again

Well, following a fairly major disk crash on one of our desktop machines we've gone and got one of those new fangled iMacs. And not to get all Mac fanboy or anything but I do like it. I like it a lot. OSX is basically a Linux/Unix distribution the way it should always have been - solid operating system with a great user interface layer above it. And now the they've got over to Intel and left the 68000 series and PowerPC behind... well it feels like a real machine.

Last time I used and indeed wrote software for a Mac was back in System 6 and System 7 days before Mr Jobs came back and entered his golden touch period. Despite having used Windows and PCs for 95% of my working life, all the way back to Windows 2 - somehow it just feels like coming home. I just like it.