Oh yeah, and Episode 9 of the .net podcast that we recorded the other day is now live! Listen to it here!

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A very quick update in case you're wondering why I've been so quiet in the last couple of days: I'm moving to a new place! The removals people are coming tomorrow morning and I'm packing up, etc.

I'm still going to release Beta 1 of SWX before Multi-Mania next week.

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This year looks like it's going to be another busy one as far as conferences go. 2007 started off with a bang for me with my talk at MacWorld 2007 in San Francisco, followed by Pixel Reloaded in Singapore. Last month, I spoke at FITC in Toronto, which was a real blast, and it looks like May and June are going to be quite busy also.

Here's a brief look at the conferences I'm going to be speaking at during the rest of the year.

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Seb just asked for Mac SVN client recommendations on Twitter and I realized that I hadn't blogged about Syncro SVN. It's the only SVN client I've found that is actually usable on OS X.

PC users are spoiled with the excellent TortoiseSVN but the few clients that exist on the Mac, well, how should I put it, umm, suck. Badly. Except for Syncro.

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. . . there's a shadow hanging over Linux and other free software, and it's being cast by Microsoft. The Redmond behemoth asserts that one reason free software is of such high quality is that it violates more than 200 of Microsoft's patents. And as a mature company facing unfavorable market trends and fearsome competitors like Google, Microsoft is pulling no punches: It wants royalties. If the company gets its way, free software won't be free anymore.

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