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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'QA'
How to virtualize Windows on an Ubuntu host for an optimized dev / qa environment
May 11th, 2008 ·
Tags: Education · Microsoft · OS X · QA · Software Development · Ubuntu · VMware · Windows · Xubuntu
This morning’s bugs with getting in to the ‘flow’ - starting day 5
March 28th, 2008 ·
Day 5 - 7:30AM EDT, 10 TPM (Tweets Per Minute)…
Links: Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - http://twitter.com/sol - http://solyoung.com
This morning’s Twitter experience has found some bugs in the system. Last night I added a few hundred friends but didn’t go through my email for add announcements… Doing that [...]
Tags: Education · Etiquette · Flow · QA · Social Networking · Twitter · XMPP
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 [...]
Tags: .NET · OS X · QA · Software Development · Windows · XCode
