This week two of the members of my team finally jumped into the blogging scene in an effort to share what they've learned, give back (so to speak) to the community, and, in some ways, learn out loud.
For those of us that blog regularly (or, irregularly) it's obvious that blogging about a topic is different than knowing about a topic, and that making yourself write about something, or speak about something, is a great way to shift your perspective and think critically about what you are doing. For this reason, among others, I always encourage people on my team to...
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"...