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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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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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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