Working with the big boys

Last week I bought a MAC – just a used G4 but a MAC non-the-less. I have always wanted to have one for testing and playing purposes and when I found a good deal on this used one it was hard to resist. I set it up over the weekend and began my adventure. I have played a bit on MACs before but not a whole lot and not much on OS X. I found it to be quite the treat.

Yesterday was the first day of school and our two kids were now going to two different schools. I stayed home in the morning to help get my oldest to her new school. I got up early and worked for about an hour before having to leave. I realized that everything I needed to do – including some development – could be done with what I have installed on the MAC. So I worked in the morning on the G4. I came in soon after and started working in my typical – proven way – on a Windows PC. I wasn’t doing much different then in the morning and all worked well. I then decided I needed to do some work on out online courses and strolled over to the linux thin client computer I have in my office. Most of this was online but the application could handle working without Internet Explorer just fine (which I never really use on the PC any ways)

So yesterday I was able to work with all of the big boys – MAC – Windows – and Linux using cross platform tools and web based applications. It seems it doesn’t really matter what you use as long as you choose smart cross platform tools