You could also title this one “Apple vs Microsoft vs The Linux Community” or “OS X vs Windows vs GNU/Linux” if you like. Or you could just call it “Users vs their computers”.
Because, ultimately, it does not really matter which platform you choose: They all plainly suck.
Mac OS X probably is the aesthetically most compelling [...]

Every once in a while the discussion about how to protect your software against illegal copies pop ups on indie developer forums. Over time, I have developed the following opinion about copy protection:
People who want to steal your software will steal your software. Like all other people paranoid about illegal copies, the developers who implement [...]

I finally managed to configure launchd on Mac OS X to launch an old project of mine, a news server written in C#, at boot time.The original code was written for .NET 1.1 and MSDE 2000 on Windows XP, and the current version runs on Mono 1.2.6_5 with MySQL 5.0.45 on Mac OS X Leopard.Here’s [...]