Infoworld has an interesting article describing the current trend of more and more Macs entering the business.
Once confined to marketing departments and media companies, the Mac is spilling over into a wider array of business environments, thanks to the confluence of a number of computing trends, not the least among them a rising tide of end-user affinity for the Apple experience.

via infoworld.com

I guess I’m a bit late on this one and everyone else knew about this site years ago but anyway, Layers magazine is a really hot tutorial & learning central covering everything Adobe. Instead of reading this paragraph you should go there now and dig through all these tutorials… Still here?
http://www.layersmagazine.com/

For Web Developers, one of the most important plugins for FireFox is the FireBug. A enhanced in-Browser Javascript-Debugger (and more), that allows to quickly find bugs or monitoring odd behaviour. Drosera is a usefull application that offers similar features for WebKit-based browsers, like Safari.
So next time you have an odd bug in your Javascript-Code, instead of chasing it down via tiring alert() or console.log() sessions, you could just as well try Drosera, which offers an enhanced interface, and many a option similar to FireBug.

Drosera on the WebKit Wiki

When it comes down to feature-richness in UI Libraries Cocoa really shines. Especially the 10.5 bump, bringing Core Animation to the table, really extended the graphicall capabilities of Cocoa. The Windows Vista pendant, “Avalon”, for example, offers a wide set of features just as well, but still lacks a extensive integrated animation package (apart from many other smaller details).
Avalon however, just as well as Cocoa, is bound to the underlying operating system and thus not available for other platforms.

So if one intends to write a multiplatform graphically extensive application, one either has to write seperate backends for each operating system, or use a agnostic framework, like for example Trolltech’s Qt or the open source Clutter.

Clutter has a lot to offer:

• OpenGL / OpenGL ES compatible
• 2D Layered scenes with possible 3D transformations
• Built-in Effects and Filters
• Media Playback
• WebKit Support, meaning one can mix WebKit with UI Elements just as with Cocoa
• Built-In Animation engine, much like Core Animation (albeit less powerfull)
• Linux, Windows, MacOSX and even iPhone Support
• Written in C, bindings for Perl, Python, C#, C++, Vala and Ruby

And much more. As you can see, Clutter has a lot to offer. It’s still at version 0.6.2, so maybe not yet ready for production use. However, if you’re thinking about developing a graphically extensive application that has to be deployed to several platforms at the same time, including iPhone, Clutter could come to the rescue.

StyleMac, being a rather old site by todays measures, had been based on WordPress 1.5.2. I’d long thought about updating it to a recent version, but just as I couldn’t find time to post I couldn’t find time to update it. This hit back some weeks ago, when a WordPress 1.5.2 exploit surfaced, that allowed to gain control over the System and thus infected StyleMac with lots of spam. The attacker modified my templates and most of the content in the db. All entries were befouled with spam for all kinds of products.

During the past 2 weeks I’ve been working on not only updating WordPress to a recent version but also transferring the site to a new, faster, server. StyleMac runs on a SVN WordPress 2.6 Bleeding now – which makes it a lot easier for me to update to newest revisions. So, all of the uglier effects of the past exploit are be gone now and should not happen again.