Archive for February, 2008

Linus Torvalds disses OS X.

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, had a few choice words to say about Windows and OS X the other day.

“I don’t think they’re equally flawed – I think Leopard is a much better system, (but) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.”

Yowza. Having never really investigated the OS X filesystem, I can’t really say I have an opinion one way or the other. From a user’s standpoint, though, I definitely agree with him that OS X is the superior operating system. Now I don’t want to start any fierce debates here, since my blog is all of two posts old, but I’ve come around to the philosophy that Macs are the ultimate consumer PC, while Windows PCs are the best for enterprises. Linux is on its way up, and is getting more and more user-friendly with every release – but for now it’s still best-suited for tinkerers and more technically savvy users.

But I digress. I haven’t heard too much in the news about Torvalds recently, but man did he catch people’s attention with his statements at the linux.conf.au conference.

via the Sydney Morning Herald.

Here we go again

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Hello there. For those of you that know me, this is version 3 of my personal portfolio. I’ve been at this web design thing for a couple years now, and I haven’t had a real site in over a year. I know what you’re thinking, and yes, it’s about flippin’ time.

For those that don’t know me, I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I create and maintain websites – both during a day job and in a freelance capacity. I’m a bit of a jack-of-all-trades kind of guy: I design, develop, and program sites from start to finish. It’s what I do, and I love it.

I created the site to promote my services, and I created the blog as an avenue to express my geeky thoughts on some very, well, geeky topics. You can look forward to posts about design, development, usability, PHP, .NET, Web Standards, and other appropriately geeky topics.