Samurai Coder

I have spent the last 3 days with Leopard-only. I upgraded to Leopard after making a bootable copy of my Tiger system. Everything went without a hitch. Before making the back up copy, I made sure that my apps were up-to-date at the moment because many developers released their updates to be compatible with the last Leopard beta seed. I also took notes of plug-ins that may use some hacks. Mail plug-ins and Safari plug-ins. I didn’t uninstall them, but just made the note of the names.

I did a default upgrade, not “archive and install”.

Most of the apps without difficulty, though there are some minor issues.

• SuperDuper!, the app I use to make a backup is not fully compatible yet. The developer has a blog on Leopard compatibility.
• Soramoyo, the widget I use to check weather in Japan doesn’t work. I replaced the widget with my home-made Web Clip.

• Safari plug-ins and Mail plug-ins don’t work although I was expecting this to happen. I’m very much optimistic as long as I read many articles that mention solutions for Safari plug-in developers. One problem I can’t forget to mention is that Spamsieve didn’t work for the first time. Following the developer’s instruction, it now works.
• My emobile device works perfectly. No reinstallation was needed.
• 1Passwd, which I thought the most skeptical about its Leopard compatibility, works fine on Leopard.
• My Logitech mouse works without Logitech driver on Leopard.

The biggest problems are Unix-related. But I don’t hurry myself with making every Unix stuff work fine on Leopard. I’m reading a lot of other users’ experiments on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP mailing lists.

So far, my upgrade experience is marvelous. I look forward to see

• More complete and concrete instructions on Unix-related installs,
• Leopard-only apps such as Delicious Library 2, TextMate 2 and the next generation of FlySketch,
• and replacement and enhancement options on Finder appearance and (awful) Dock by CandyBar 3 and DragThing.