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Category Archives: mac

Rails for .NET Developers: New Book Out!

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Our friends over at Softies on Rails have put a book out that will help any .NET developer looking to work with Ruby on Rails.  The Softies crew was an early inspiration for me to try out Ruby and Mac development, and I am really happy for them that they were able [...]

Tutorial: How to virtualize your PC and run it in Mac OS X (Intel editions only)

I recently converted from an IBM ThinkPad T43 to a MacBook Pro. I was able to keep all of my PC-specific software, including MS Office, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server, QuickBooks, etc. This method allowed me to preserve my PC as it was – perfectly frozen in time with all my preferences – [...]

Is Microsoft doomed? A devotee considers switching to Mac.

I am trying to learn Ruby.
Trying to get out of the development rut I’ve been in.
I love .NET. I love C#. I can build powerful apps very quickly in .NET. However, taking these apps and getting my team to maintain them consistently, and building a web-ready infrastructure around them to support both [...]

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