jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sun Jun 10 19:54:41 CDT 2012
> Yes, JWC has a great hardware environment but is it a must have for every developer to be competitive these days? I suppose it's not. It absolutely is not. It is necessary for handling the volumes of data I have. I have almost 700 million records now that I am pushing out of my SQL Server databases every month, running through Address validation and pulling them back in. I use 4 VMs to simultaneously run the third party software, and a 5th VM to run my custom app to perform the magic. For development I actually run a VM with Windows 2003 X32. Why? Because Visual Studio Edit and Continue doesn't run on X64, and X64 is actually slower in most cases (in the dev environment). So I use a lowly X32 VM with 4 gigs of RAM for my app running directly in Visual Studio as I debug and work my app. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 6/10/2012 3:55 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote: > Hi Arthur -- > > You sound a bit depressing, don't give up! > > In fact (if you believe MS) Win8 should run just fine on 1GB box: > > Have a look "Reducing runtime memory in Windows 8" > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/07/reducing-runtime-memory-in-windows-8.aspx > > Yes, JWC has a great hardware environment but is it a must have for every developer to be competitive these days? > I suppose it's not. For example, I'm staying currently outside St.Petersburg city, in a village and I'm using here a mere mortals DELL Inspiron 9400 with Win7 Ultimate 32bit, 3GB RAM, 300GB HDD, a GSM modem and a 850GB backup HDD connected via USB2. > That's it. And I feel rather comfortable developing .NET Framework and MS Office apps running all over the world. > I usually have three VS instances running keeping opened solutions with multiple projects as well as MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, dozen Google Chrome tabs and some other software... > And I'm using such a "poor man" system for almost a year now - trying to get the highest ROI from hardware investment possible :) > I have other hardware but I have found I don't need it for my current customers projects. Yes, keeping a couple of displays connected to one development box would help to speed-up a bit, and I'm planning to get them connected but again, that's it: that's all a developer using MS modern development tools would need to work efficiently on a broad range of application software project types. Not all of course: I can't develop SharePoint projects on my system, nor can I develop games for WinPhone7... > But on my 32bit system I'm developing software, which runs fine on customers' 64bit systems... > > Yes, I do plan to get purchased i7-driven box this fall but just because my DELL Inspiron 9400 is getting a bit old - it's 5 years old currently... > > Once again, don't give up Arthur! > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > > P.S. BTW, the Euro 2012 Football championship started a couple of days ago, and you're a football fun AFAIK. Did you see Denmark football team did win The Netherlands' one - first time in the last 50 years? (Congrats to Gustav! :)