Macs as a Superior Development Platform?
Nick Santilli of “the Apple Blog”: http://theappleblog.com/ blogs about his return to the world of coding. His work place is PC-based though small enough that a switch to Apple’s platform would be feasible. To migrate to the Mac, he asks the questions:
- What are your best arguments for using the Mac platform as our main development machines? What makes them a better, more flexible — even more cost-efficient — solution to our large, beefy, Dell machines that we’re currently using (in between blue screens)?
- What you’ve found to be your streamlined software configuration for such tasks?
Specifically, his article hopes to uncover the selection of an IDE, though he is leaning towards NetBeans, as well as database and server tools. If you’re a software engineer or an Apple VAR, take a second and add provide him with your comments.
Related Links:
- theappleblog: Reader Feedback: Macs as a Superior Development Platform?
- Amazon.com: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
