Sometimes I actually do love computers.

Today I really, really enjoyed the easy Mac-PC networking at work. ME, I am Apple, since 1992… oh yeah, it’s been a while. my own business is all Mac. Of course I have a PB. And, as you know, since a few months I part-time as web / graphic designer. Of course the shop is all PC and wow, I don’t believe it, but a majority of users are STILL on internet Explorer, even though Firefox catches up.

Anyway, I usually do my coding in a text editor and for CSS styling I love to use CSSEdit. no such nice tools on the PC so originally I went conform with the rest of the place and used Dreamweaver but since a few months I like to use Microsoft Expression – I am a big opponent of MS and have NO applications of them on my own drive, so this shows that it IS pretty good – and it works well and better than Dreamweaver (as it tries to be less backward compatible) in displaying code for the most; oh, and I am on Vista which brings its own share of fun.

Well, yesterday under a deadline Microsoft Expression decided to crash and since then nothing could clean the problem up.

Deadline. oh yeah. we know how that goes. Also, on top of it I needed to style something which gets generated on the fly on the server and thus could not fine tune it easily locally (though Firefox’es “Firebug” is a great tool).

Well, here comes my great setup. I am able at work to hook up my powerbook via ethernet to their network (usually to allow me to connect to the internet, for Safari testing). Today, under Leopard I just hooked up the ethernet and instantly saw their PC network, next I was connected to our internal business server, no sweat.

But now to the really sweat part of it all : working with THEIR file on their server on MY powerbook in CSSEdit for styling (overriding the live webpage display in CSS with the local file). Tweak, save and upload to the remote server and done. Rinse and repeat to happiness.

Super fluent, no crashes – one would not even know that I am working on a PC file directly on my Mac.

Sometimes I REALLY love computers. Today was such a day :-)