Protose goes live

It is official, the new home of software engineers has gone live at Protose.org. Look to it for your latest news on the industry and as a place to discuss issues with other software engineers. Visit every day, be informed, enlightened, and entertained.

OS X app of the day: NetNewsWire

A new feature column here on Mark.Pavlidis.org is my Mac OS X application pick of the day. (mind you, it won’t be a daily feature…) The apps will be ones that I have started to use regularly since migrating to OS X about a month ago.
The first recommended application is NetNewsWire Lite. […]

I was so close to being out

After completing my undergraduate degree in Software Engineering in April, I thought I was out of school… at least for a year or two. As usual, life does not play out as planned. I had my graduate student orientation session today, my first class is Thursday. Oh so close. Postponing my […]

OS X will win as *nix on the desktop

With Solaris boxen heading for pasture in record numbers, the fragmentation of the Linux desktop options (and other legal issues) has slowed the progress of Linux on the desktop, there is one bright light for making inrods into the MS Windows… Mac OS X.
Since making the Linux to OS X switch 4 weeks ago I’ve […]