The delicious apple

Last night Alan, Wim, Collin and myself decided to go check out the Apple OS X demo over at VanLUG. I couldn't say I was overly impressed, except for a neat feature where they can drag a folder to a terminal window... and it echos the full path to the cmd line. Course.. I could probably get there just as fast with tab completion in bash ;-) The thing is sure a pretty beast.... love the PDF style rendering of everything... clean fonts etc.. but it doesn't wow me. I did find their monitoring of their xserve product (basically a Mac in a Rack) interesting, especially the idea of being able to light up a rack you are working on so you don't accidently shut down yer pr0n server when you were really wanting to shut down your Kazaa server.

Spent some time talking to Wim about Crystal Reports and the idea of integrating it for more complex reporting in our latest stuff. He sent me an interesting link on how to do it in java.. and I was not overly impressed. Crystal wants you to use JNI to do reports which IMMEDIATELY means I lost my cross platform ability of the app. No way.

Speaking of which, I should get back at it. Having some fun tweaking my monitoring stuff and would like to get that completed in the next few days. TTYL.