The good news is that the new machine is a beautiful new 24" iMac. I've wanted one for years but could never really justify the purchase for myself and Becca didn't want one as her computer. I purchased it through Amazon which allowed me to skip out on some hefty sales tax and overnight it for $3.99 (I love Amazon Prime).
The only semi-challenging part so far is getting a proper development environment set up. I've long used TortoiseSVN for version control with Forrest and I'm going to miss it for sure. I immediately began the hunt for a mac replacement for it. It didn't take long to turn up SCPlugin which hooks right into Finder. I had only one last hurdle to clear in using it. I attempted to check out the Apache Forrest trunk and immediately got a PROPFIND error:
PROPFIND of '/repos/asf/forrest/trunk': Server certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted (https://svn.apache.org)
After poking around a while, it seems you need to use the command line svn client (included in Leopard) to make an initial connection to the Subversion server to let it know that you trust the certificate (e.g. "svn ls https://somelocation/path" then, when prompted, type "p" to permanently accept it). Why SCPlugin couldn't simply do that for me? I haven't a clue but whatever. It's a small nit.
Ok, as I write this I realize there were some other challenges as well:
- Quicken. I was a Quicken user on Windows and it's not exactly easy to convert the data to Quicken for Mac. It's odd that Quicken's internal data format is different for different operating systems. It's even more odd that they seem unable to create a loss-less conversion from one format to the other. Fortunately, they have at least documented the quirkiness.
- Picasa. This, I will miss. I've been a huge fan of all things Google but Picasa has to be one of my favorite. Folks seem to think iPhoto will fill the void but so far I have found it unsatisfying. No more simple enhancements. No more geo-tagging. Oh well.
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