Have you noticed the new big thing with the big boys and girls from Joomla!?
Have you seen that fruit growing and glowing on most everyone’s podium?
Have you glanced behind you at a Joomla! conference and seen them staring at you?
Have you checked out the photos from the Joomla! meets and seen them lying smugly under the pro’s fingertips?
When I visited Joomla!Day Germany (packing my new MacBook Pro to casually show off to everyone) – they were already there. Dozens of them!
The event registration was being done with one – they were all over the place. I was so shocked I didn’t even take mine out of its carrying bag until the next day.
‘Fast reverse’ a couple of years – not many people had Macs. Sure, most of the designers and the occasional programmer had one. I’ve been using Macs since 1990, but I’ve always been a little odd. But most programmers sneared at Macs and dressed them down to be the computers for those people that knew nothing about computers. Perhaps they were right.
‘Fast forward’ to today and show me a good programmer that doesn’t swear by his Mac. (It’s a good job none of you know where I live – me thinks)
Truly, I am amazed by this overwhelming upsurge in Mac ownership and totally gobsmacked that some of the best programmers in the business will tell you out straight that they do all their work on a Mac. (Yes, we all test our work on windows).
Which brings me to Eddie. My trustee programmer has long laughed in my face when confronted with my persistent ‘buy a mac’ prodding. Eddie is a brilliant programmer and really knows his stuff (but alas not his computers LOL). I was having a conversation with Johan Janssens 2 weeks ago and Eddie stood next to us soaking up the wisdom. I thought this was a chance not to be missed and asked Johan what computer he uses. He looked at me as though I had asked him if he had ever heard of Joomla!
“Mac” he replied.
Eddie has every intention of getting his new Mac as soon as possible.
