Daniel T. Staal wrote:
So, how can we help?
I do doubt that long-term Camelbones can support you if it hasn't already,
but specific one-time causes can often get quite a bit in the way of
donations. If you need an Intel Mac to continue builds, post a goal and a
link to donate. I bet you'll make your goal.
I just read an editor's note at Maccentral (it's listed under June 6) .
. . apparently the development kit that Apple is offering for this
transition gets you that 3.6GHz Pentium P4 Mac. Now, I know $999 is a
lot of money for Sherm, with him being out of work for 3 years. But I
think there is always a way to get out of any predicament, it just may
involve "thinking out of the box".
I sympathize with Sherm's dilemna. I'm a web programmer who's been
working with ColdFusion for the past 4 years or so. Now Macromedia is
going to be merging with Adobe, and the picture is very murky right now.
One approach is to go in the LAMP direction so as to diversify, and in
my recent performance review, we've agreed that I will have the
opportunity to leran another programming language, like PHP.
There are applications still waiting to be written that doesn't exist on
the Mac platform. For instance, I'm a knitter. There's a lot of
program out there to design sweater and sock patterns, and to design
fair isle, aran, and intarsia designs. However, there's only two
commercial (no shareware that I can locate) software that Cochenille
Designs (http://www.cochenille.com/) and these programs are stuck in the
"Classic" time warp and the company doesn't seem inclined in the near
future to update these programs to work with OS X (no, I don't want to
run Classic, and haven't done so for the past year or so). There's no
competition in the picture that I can see.
I wish I could create that application taht would run circles around
Cochenille's products, but I don't the Objective-C programming language
and it would take me quite a while before I could get up to speed
(especially since I haven't created stand-alone applications).
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