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For my recently former Windows brothers out there who may not be clued into this - you can't run two instances of an app on OS X (at least not from the normal UI) nor can you install say, two versions of Firefox, side by side in the normal fashion.
This is obviously foreign to Windows users who are used to being able to do both of these things with ease, but especially for those of you who may be using Selenium (which doesn't work with Firefox 3.5 yet), here's a tip to get you started.
To install two versions of the...
Some time ago I switched to Mac OS X for my day to day work, using Windows only in a virtual machine for when I absolutely needed to use Visual Studio.
I just got a new 15" MacBook Pro as part of an initiative to roll my entire team over to Mac as our day to day platform (story for another day) and thought I would document my setup for their benefit (and anyone else's).
Step 1 - System Settings
Updates - Do Software Updates until you can't do any more.
Seriously. Just get it out of the way now.
The equivalent of "lock workstation"...
So my new language of the year is going to be Objective-C and Cocoa/CocoaTouch. This is actually a new language and a new IDE and a new platform and, well, everything. I've decided to document much of what I'm doing along the way. As you know I switched my main platform to Mac last year and have been doing my .Net development in a Virtual Machine. This has been great, working out extremely well, but part of what I wanted the Mac for was to branch out and explore some different ways of writing applications. Studying a new language is...