Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Wed Mar 5 14:08:50 CST 2014
Woke up in the middle of the night and thought to check my email to see if any thread about windows needed my opinion to be weighed in on. Par for the course. On another note, had to help a fellow developer today get set up with Apache, MySQL and PHP on Windows 8. Seeing as he’s the only developer here using Windows 8, there was no pre-existing documentation on how to do that. An utterly hostile experience. I ended up just installing VirtualBox and Debian and it works just fine. Poor dev spent a whole week trying to get things up and running to no avail. VirtualBox and Debian set up took a mere 2 hours to get fully going with everything additional compiled and configured. It’s 2014. Surely by now it should be easier than this, but I guess this just goes to show that most developers who work on anything other than the Microsoft stack (IIS, .NET, C#, MSSQL, etc) don’t choose Windows for development. They use Linux or OS X, hence why setting things up on those platforms are so much easier. Nice wallpaper, fyi. - Hans On Mar 5, 2014, at 3:02 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Hans: > > Question: What are you doing up at this time of night? (I have an excuse; I'm retired and was just installing the latest version of Ubuntu. ;-) > > http://itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Ubuntu_1404_wallpaper.jpeg > > Just think of the OSS Windows 8-9 as just another distro whose UI could be rebuilt or re-installed at whim. > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hans-Christian Andersen" <hans.andersen at phulse.com> > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 2:18:48 AM > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8 > > Ironically, that might not be a bad idea for Microsoft. Unfortunately, though, Windows' biggest issues are not the underlying OS (the kernel). It is the user interface and the product development that is the issue. > > - Hans > > >> On Mar 5, 2014, at 2:12 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: >> >> Windows 9 will be an Open Source project. >> >> http://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-to-join-microsoft >> >> ;-) >> >> Jim >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com