Posts Tagged ‘operating system’

Mono and Mono Develop

Posted by tom.altman on December 18th, 2009

The subject of mono and mono develop came up today in an interview.

Mono
An open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET

MonoDevelop
An open Source C# and .NET development environment for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X

I really want to learn more about these projects.  I have invested a lot of time with WordPress, and it is simply amazing.  For me, pound for pound – the best web front end.

But I really, really like .NET.  My favorite thing to use .NET for is our scripts and services.

Here is a post from a mono developer blog.

So this can be a bridge between different parts of the development world.

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Macs Are The Platform Of New Media

Posted by tom.altman on January 2nd, 2008

Yes – I agree with the title of this post and the corresponding post over at Podcasting News…but I think they are forgetting something.

For people working in new media, Macs are especially compelling. The iLife suite is free and offers great tools for getting started with podcasting and video podcasting. And two of the best audio and video apps, Logic and Final Cut, are Mac-only.

Dell has a problem. It’s got great hardware, but it’s stuck with Windows Vista, a mishmash of third-party apps and craplets.

And you can’t do new media on crapware.

Macs are nice, hands down the best hardware on the market…but the most compelling part of the puzzle to me is the fact that I can have my cake and eat it too.  Dell, HP, Sony and the others have everything Macs have except one thing…Macs can run both Mac’s Leopard and Windows whatever.

For me that is the key…too much Microsoft hate out there.  :)

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