The Cafes » Macs

Friday I spent most of the day converting the old custom written site into a new spiffy WordPress 2.0 site. Why I did that was outlined in my previous post, Why Mokka mit Schlag?

Then I promptly caught writer’s block. For a good 48 hours I could think of absolutely nothing to say here. I could have pulled an old article out of the vault, but I wanted to relaunch with something new. So I went on a parrot walk at Brooklyn College, did a little owling in Prospect Park, and got to work on my notes for Macintosh Development with Java at Software Development 2006 in Santa Clara in March. This is a revised version of the Macifying SWT talk I gave at EclipseCon in New York in the Fall. However, this time the focus will be on Swing rather than the SWT. (Swing does a much better job at handling the Mac.)
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It’s been my experience that about half the techies and journalists commenting on the new Mac Mini “get it”, and about half don’t. This contrasts favorably with the track record for the iPod Mini, where almost nobody, including me, “got it” up front. A typical example of the commentators who don’t get it is Michael Kanellos at c|net. First read his latest column and spot the elementary math error. Someone needs a refresher course in high school geometry.

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