As you may have noticed, I’ve got an eee901, which I’ve turned into a Hackintosh (I’ve installed OS X on it). I’ve previously mentioned that I found it a bit sluggish - but no more!
I finally got round to upgrading the default 16Gb SSD drive to a much faster 64Gb one made by Runcore. By hell does it make a difference! The machine feels substantially quicker, and I very rarely hit the spinning beach ball these days (which happened all the time, previously).
If you’ve got one of these machines, I’d seriously recommend upgrading the SSD, regardless of the operating system you’re using. If my experience is anything to go by, you won’t be dissapointed.
I’ve just updated the blurb a bit on this group: http://www.elegantchaos.com/uk-mac-dev
After the excellent NSConference, I’m hoping that we can get a few more members on the list, and encourage a few more folks along to our monthly meetings.
Another excellent day, with some good sessions (core animation looks cool), and a fun finale.
I must confess to being a little bit weary now, and glad to be sitting at home. Tim & Scotty and the others must be knackered - I hope they have the chance to get thoroughly rat-arsed tonight.
Inspired by Andre Pang’s presentation at NSConference, and pointed out to me by Alasdair Allan…
http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
No really, it is funny, honest.
I’ll get my coat.
I had a conversation last night which reminded me of this sneaking suspicion I have about Extreme Programming - which I may have blogged before (but I can’t find my own post if I did!).
Basically it revolves around the fact that I’d be far less likely to want to work with a programmer who had absolutely no knowledge of or interest in XP, unit testing, refactoring etc.
Conversely, I’d be instinctively keen to work with someone who is interested in it, or already doing it. To the extent that I suspect I wouldn’t really care whether we actually DID it at all.
Which leads me to wonder just how much the actual process matters, and how much it’s just a filter to use in order to select the right people to work with.