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Setting Up Windows Server 2008 VMWare Virtual Machines For .Net Development

The Freedom of Virtualization For awhile now I have been enjoying the freedom of developing with virtual machines. The biggest advantage it has given me lately is the freedom to do whatever I want to the laptop I use as a workstation. What I mean by that is I don't even blink twice if I want to try a new operating system anymore. Maybe I want to run a version of Debian Linux or Ubuntu to keep my Unix skills polished up. Or maybe I want to try running a 64bit version of Windows Server as my main operating system to...

posted @ Monday, June 30, 2008 1:33 PM | Feedback (23)

Visual Studio for Windows vs XCode for Mac OS X

The other day I was playing on my aging Powerbook and thought I'd investigate writing applications on Mac OS X using XCode. I tried several years ago but honestly after reading some documentation on Apple's web site I wasn't any better off than when I started. Instead of going the documentation route which didn't work I thought I would try a different approach. Today we have something we didn't have years ago that is a lot better than documentation and that is called videos. They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words. Well a video is worth that times...

posted @ Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:34 PM | Feedback (28)

Open Source to .Net Transition - Mac or PC?

It seems that an article I wrote a while back is making its way around the Internet once again. It never fails that once a year or every 6 months it pokes it's head up from the ashes, dusts itself off and finds new readers. The article I'm talking about is this one: How an Open Source Developer Transitioned to .Net It is an interesting read and if you haven't read it, check it out. I started getting lots of emails from readers last night and this morning as the article was passed around. One person emailed me a question...

posted @ Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:59 AM | Feedback (2)