Tag Archives: vmware

Getting a dev environment running quickly

April 16, 2008 – 10:59 am

It can be a real pain getting everything together, especially when upgrading software, or moving around. Today I am faced with this problem. My old development environment is dead; I have one day to get a new environment running and do some useful work. I’d also like to catch up with a friend for coffee, […]

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Corporate VM solutions

September 5, 2007 – 2:05 am

I am currently trying to get a virtual machine development environment set up that conforms to corporate restrictions - it is a real pain. But hopefully it will save future developers a lot of head scratching as they try and configure their own personal environments… *hopefully* we will be able to copy, reSID, add to […]

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development projects…

August 20, 2007 – 3:08 am

I consider the ’setup’ of new development environments on projects to be one of the most useless activities faced by new projects… Personally I believe that vmWare is a practical and robust solution. Simply show up - get a new vm image and start work. Easy.
The alternative is to build and maintain installer applications that […]

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