Microsoft says that Visual Studio 2008 can be installed on any version of Vista (excluding started edition). But I am not sure, if Home Editions cause not problems with debugging, virtual machines, IIS, MS SQL 2008 and all other tools which developers use or with some old tools like Visual Basic 6.0. Seems that Vista Business would be ...
I recently burned up my development laptop (it literally emitted smoke from the vents). After pulling the hd I was unable to get it to spin with a USB device attached to a home tower. Since I was on a deadline I had to rush and buy a new laptop (Turion 64 x2) running Vista. After I installed my required applications VS2005/2008, Sql Ser...
I'd like to get back into some web development after primarily working on native applications, and I'm looking for advice on how to set up my web development "stack" on my local Mac. Ideally I'd like a setup that is easy to setup and maintain, but remains flexible and extensible. In particular, I plan to use Python, so mod_python is ...
I am about to buy a notebook and I am between the MB or the MBPro any recomendation? Other Stuff is Presentations and Word Processing ...
I have recently gained access to a Mac. I am wondering if anyone has any tips/advice for setting up Mono on a mac for development and execution of ASP.NET? Most resources point to Linux implementations which tend to differ a lot from the way Mac's do things. Any tips or advice would be helpful ...
I know this can be done and i have seen it done using some front end gui tool (using robocopy internally) I am just not able to lay my hands on this stuff tried google but wasn't able to get to it. I am about to start a new project and i have finished setting up a desktop with all the tools required on that machine. what i want now is a...
We should develop on slow boxen because it forces us to optimize early. Randall Hyde points out in The Fallacy of Premature Optimization, there are plenty of misconceptions around the Hoare quote: We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. In particular...
Hi guys Now the machines we are forced to use are 2GB Ram, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3GHz CPU... The policy within the company is that everyone has the same computer no matter what and that they are on a 3 year refresh cycle... Meaning I will have this machine for the next 2 years... :S We have been complaining like crazy but they said...
It's budgeting time and Corporate is balking at the cost of replacing a coworker's machine who is due for it, needs it, and deserves it. Our group is a small ISV/SAAS that exists as a division of a larger media group. We are not a cost center, we make money, even this year. We are owned by a mid-size media group whose business model i...