Jim Moy

I’ve been playing with an iMac that’s on loan to me for some volunteer web work. It has OS-X on it. A number of years ago, I was a pretty good Mac hacker. And in a lifetime even before that, I cut my teeth in the profession on Unix machines. Because those periods were so independent, and focused on such different products, code, and development strategies, it’s strange now, to see them together, and in a fashion that blends them so nicely. For the first time in a long time, I wouldn’t mind being a Mac programmer again.

The default installation of OS-X comes with Apache and Perl, already installed and running. Instead of turning on the internal toy web server like it used to, clicking the Start button for Web Sharing now fires up Apache. “Look, httpd.conf, wonderful!” The collective wisdom of Unix, and the happy Mac face up front, very nice.