My Environment
I loving writing via Tumblr on my iTouch. It means I can get things down whilst being “engaged” with tasks around the house. This post has been drafted in various locations over a period of around 3 weeks.
I thought I would take a moment to describe my current working environment. At work I’m using an exceptionally fast and light weight laptop on a docking station. It has virtual machines for testing. I have Ubuntu 9.04 running with lots of ruby gems as a sand pit play area. There’s a project called Sprout core that I really want to consider for production. It seems like a great framework for HTML5 and device independant projects.
I do have an Ubuntu 10.04 VMware appliance running. Just for fun. I might whop the server edition onto a spare pentium 4 machine that’s on top of my microwave. But that needs a wireless card hardware upgrade or I’m drilling a hole in the ceiling.
At home my huge Dell laptop is all smashed in by my baby son. It still kind of works ok. It’s been good for watching films since my xbox died. I mostly use my Packard Bell Ubuntu 9.04 box for development.
In all environments, bar one, I have LAMP (installed the hard way). And often boot up netbeans as soon as I login. It’s a fantastic IDE for a range of languages including PHP. But I always regress into using Gedit and the Terminal.
All machines have a public key with my github account. I love the fact I can develop in one place and pull that down from somewhere else. Capability is not an issue, it’s all about the time.
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