The iNexus

This entry is being typed and posted from my new 17″ MacBook Pro. Why do I share? (besides the obvious geek factor) This means a solid focus on Intel compatibility for all Infinite Nexus apps as well as a much-needed boost in performance.

For tangible numbers I give you an Adium (an open source project I work on) compile - on my 1.33 PBG4 w/ 1 GB RAM a clean build took roughly 20 minutes. Today I updated to the latest source and compiled (on a 2.16 MBP w/ 2 GB RAM) in roughly 8 minutes. That’s snappy!

So I’m definitely geeked (read: beyond excited) as I settle into the spacious new surroundings and get ready for simultaneous coding on each machine (PPC and Intel.)

Love programming? Love Adium? Still in college?

Sign up now for Google’s Summer of Code 2006 at http://code.google.com/soc/student_step1.html. Adium, that well known duck of an instant messenger for Mac OS X, to which I’m a contributing developer, is an included project for this Summer of Code and we’re all looking forward to the exciting weeks ahead!

I’m signed up as a mentor as are several other developers from the team and proposals are already in and under discussion. Hurry and sign up to today to put those carefree hours to great use working on an incredible open source project with thousands of loyal users across the world!