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[atmaspheric | endeavors] Dear Steve June 12th, 2005 james duncan davidson has a great piece on the transition to Intel”¦ Technorati Tags: Apple, Intel Posted in software...

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[Theappleblog.com] The Apple Blog » james duncan davidson: Dear Steve: James helps put me at ease by detailing some of his first-hand experiences of the ease and speed of porting apps over to the X86 framework. I’m sure there are plenty of folks out there (as I have been, and as James apparently was too) who assumed there was a good amount of smoke and mirrors at work at WWDC.

[Tuaw.com] The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): Bios vs EFI (vs OpenFirmware), x86 vs x86-64 and also mind all the outdated, useless features (like MMX) that are kept for backward compatibility and taking precious die space on the silicons. Hope, they will drop out all that crap and will use the opportunity to start from a blank page.

[Sci-Fi Hi-Fi] I, for one, welcome our new little endian overlords: As bad as all of that sounds, they’re still (mostly) fairly minor problems that I was able to resolve while sitting there in the lab with people looking over my shoulder, so I think my experience bodes well for 90% of the Mac developers out there. I’m with James Duncan Davidson and Brent Simmons in calling for Steve to bring the Intel based Macs on!

[jim's] It'll be smooth: To really comprehend what 5 years of covert work done at Cupertino by the Marklar team have done to make the eventual switch to Intel a breeze, is to read what developers have to say about converting their apps to make them Intel Mac ready.

[Blog.x180.net] x180 / james duncan davidson: Dear Steve: And from talking with Apple engineers that day and on through the week, I knew that many of them were curious to see how this was all going to shake out. And there was still the possibility that the smooth running machine that you used up on stage and the smooth port that Wolfram had was just smoke and mirrors and that we were going to spend the next few years in porting hell.

[Rails.yanime.org] Previewing RSS/Atom: http://blog.x180.net/index.rdf: Dave, of course is the principle author of Agile Web Development with Rails and Mike wrote some of the content for the book as well. It's a great book and, having seen both guys in action in front of a room of people, this will be an excellent class.