Sol Young

 
After converting my MacBook Pro in to a Windows developer dream, I wanted to have the same experience on a more portable, commodity hardware unit. Virtualizing Windows within Windows with VMware Server is something I’m familiar with. It’s something many Windows developers may prefer (and I recommend if you’re not comfy with linux as your [...]

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When following a lot of friends in a flow environment and using XMPP, one sees the above numbers in less than ten minutes. I’d been using Adium, but Adium doesn’t smooth scroll between each received tweet. It constantly jerks messages upwards and has made it virtually impossible to have a meaningful [...]

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After reading this great, hilarious, post on upgrading to XP (yes, you read that right - this isn’t a Vista upgrade), I decided to take the plunge. I’ve been punished long enough for using Vista Ultimate in my VMware environment and portable laptop. It’s been a nice OS, but performance is in the toilet and I can’t [...]

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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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Wow - it’s late, so this may not come out so great.
What’s better than getting a dual-boot solution with 64-bit Vista and OS X on a Core 2 Duo laptop? How about triple-booting OS X, 64-bit Vista, and your favorite flavor of linux? (along with a shared ext3 drive so you can avoid using FAT32 [...]

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