After years of staying away from Macs I finally gave in and got myself a Macbook pro. My philosophy is that whatever I would want to do in a Mac I can do in a Linux machine (which is my primary choice of OS). For the most part it is true, except that Iphone SDK + xCode does not install in a Linux machine. I want to get into iPhone app development badly!
Macs are expensive, there is no denying that. They are well built and prior to the OSX becoming available, I thought of them as appliances that my grandma might use to check her emails. Simply put, macs are built for simplicity. I necessarily do not look for simplicity when I am using a computer, I like to challenge myself with difficulty that a Linux machine makes you go through. So the high price and the maturity of recent Linux distros (Ubuntu for example) I stuck to my DIY pcs and old dell for my computing.
I got the mac from micro center as I looked for the best deal. After agreeing to buy the mac, the store manager showed up with a smiling face and greeted me, as if I am royalty! With a broad smile he was like, thanks for buying a mac and we want to make sure you enjoy it fully; out came a business card.
I enjoy using the Mac primarily for it's elegant look and the overall build quality. There is something special about holding a solid piece of aluminum holding your computing machinery! It has a premium feel to it that I can compare with the feeling I had when I drove my Audi!
Overall I am happy with it and it's hard to get back to using a different keyboard after using the Mac. It makes my old dell feel completely worthless!
So will I buy a mac again sure, but not in next 3-4 yrs! Oh btw, I forgot to mention, I do think at 1.1k 13.3" macbook pro is totally worth the money. The 15"+ plus are still outrageously priced...
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Intertech Rocks!
So my employer (who is great but shall remain anonymous) sent me for Spring 2.5/3.0 training recently. Company has relation with a local in town (read suburbian) company that provides Spring training. BTW, I am talking about Spring framework of course. I have worked with Spring for a number of years, but the saying goes, "If you taught yourself something you only learned half of it" (I paraphrased this from our VP's recent speech).
Intertech is a small compnay with an interesting history (their website does a great job of going into that). I have been to many training sessions/classes through out my 5 yr career and something stood out about this company! Their training materials were fantastically arranged. Everything had a touch of care to it. From the way the secretary's greetings to the way the binders were arranged immediately impressed me. To put icing on the top of my first impression, they served fabulous coffee (caribou I believe) and had great assortment of breakfast pasty. It seemed, that the company employees are allowed to dig into those as well but I digress!
The trainer was a 20+ yr veteran of the tech industry and was one of the partner/director of the company. He was very knowledgeable yet down to earth guy. Training had a good pace and gave us ample opportunity to put the training into practice with the exercises they had after each chapter.
The equipments (pains me to utter this word, I am a huge computer geek) at the training facility were great and had a nice image based system management which wiped the pcs clean after each training session. All the files and folders were in sync with the presentation material unlike many other places I had been before for training.
I was there for two days and all in all it was a great experience. I highly recommend Intertech if you are looking to get training in the twin cities area (or if you are one of the few fortunate to travel out of town for training). Its a great company with a great environment and I can see them going far.
PS: I am claiming their $10 caribou card for putting their logo in my blog, but no they did not pay me to write this review!
Intertech is a small compnay with an interesting history (their website does a great job of going into that). I have been to many training sessions/classes through out my 5 yr career and something stood out about this company! Their training materials were fantastically arranged. Everything had a touch of care to it. From the way the secretary's greetings to the way the binders were arranged immediately impressed me. To put icing on the top of my first impression, they served fabulous coffee (caribou I believe) and had great assortment of breakfast pasty. It seemed, that the company employees are allowed to dig into those as well but I digress!
The trainer was a 20+ yr veteran of the tech industry and was one of the partner/director of the company. He was very knowledgeable yet down to earth guy. Training had a good pace and gave us ample opportunity to put the training into practice with the exercises they had after each chapter.
The equipments (pains me to utter this word, I am a huge computer geek) at the training facility were great and had a nice image based system management which wiped the pcs clean after each training session. All the files and folders were in sync with the presentation material unlike many other places I had been before for training.
I was there for two days and all in all it was a great experience. I highly recommend Intertech if you are looking to get training in the twin cities area (or if you are one of the few fortunate to travel out of town for training). Its a great company with a great environment and I can see them going far.
PS: I am claiming their $10 caribou card for putting their logo in my blog, but no they did not pay me to write this review!
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