[DM-MUG] Apples in the Enterprise

[Darcy Baston]

I use an iBook for PHP/MySQL development. It's amazing, but Textwrangler, is the *best* free text editor out there and it makes churning out scripts a breeze (syntax coloring, SFTP/FTP open/save , hotkey indenting, regexp searches, emacs emulation, scriptable and more). 

The default Terminal performs great too for remote administration. 

For MS Office compatibility I use NeoOffice, a Java GUI for OpenOffice. It's data import/export/print support is incredible, is the best handler for CSV data, and makes MS Excel look like a Fisher Price toy.

And if that's not cool enough, attending meetings and then distributing minutes taken in Pages to PDF format to everyone, is just fantastic.

I'm with you guys. I could NOT work as efficiently as I do on a PC. Unless it came with tons of expensive commercial software, and even then, there's a big ease of use penalty. This iBook went from "out of box" to production in a WinNT/Linux environment, in minutes. It could talk to the network, shared printers, VPNs, wireless network and more, right away.

Darcy

  
On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 01:33PM, Chris Van Cleve <vanish@dreamscapevisionery.com> wrote:

>I'm curious how many of us are using Macs at work, make our living with 
>Macs, and/or are using Enterprise level Macs (XServe, XServe RAID, 
>Oracle Server, etc.)
>
>I know Bryan and I both are responsible for Mac support and for 
>maintaining and developing on XServes. Last year I convinced my 
>director to replace my Windows box with a G5 because I can perform my 
>DBA duties better with a Mac (Yep, you read that right. Better. The 
>best tools available for DB work are written in Java, and Apple's 
>implementation in this arena has been flawless. And my Mac trashes my 3 
>GHz Dell in speed, especially when working with multiple DB connections 
>simultaneously.) My role as Webmaster is also ramping up to consume (at 
>this point) 75% of my daily duties. There's on question that web 
>development on the Mac is simply better, easier, you name it.
>
>The reason I'm asking is I thought it might be good to start an MitE 
>SIG and discuss software / hardware people are using professionally 
>with Macs. What web resources are others using? That kind of thing.
>
>Bryan and I have talked a bit about revamping the website, and I think 
>having SIG sections, and sub-forums in a discussion forum, would appeal 
>to several of us. But then, I could be wrong.
>
>Chris Van Cleve
>
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