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Similarities between Windows 2008 Server and Red Planet (AMEE)

March 25th, 2008 · Comments

Red Planet
I got to catch up with the Windows 2008 Server ads today. The first thing that came to mind was AMEE from Red Planet. That was a scary malfunctioning robot…

Microsoft’s Win2k8 ad, Crouching Robot
As an IT professional, will you nickname Win2k8 ‘AMEE’?

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Tags: .NET · Movies · Windows

The Mac/PC dev/QA environment

February 17th, 2008 · 9 Comments

 
Developing PC applications on the Mac is great, contrary to what some believe. I too was once in the ‘build-on-the-platform-you-target’ camp. Forget that horse-puckie and get efficient:

Get VMware Fusion: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/.
Make sure you’ve got XCode. This will be sixty percent of your development environment and you’ll be coding in OS X.
Install Windows XP or Vista, your [...]

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Tags: .NET · OS X · QA · Software Development · Windows · XCode