How is your development platform configured?
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I'm curious as to what people consider a really "sharp" development system. I recently added more RAM after loading .NET, and put my swap file on a second hard disk on the recommendations of a friend in order to boost disk swapping performance. What do you use? Does your employer provide you with the latest hardware and software? (I never found this to be true when I worked as an employee, which is part of the reason I'm a contractor now!) Do you test your software on multiple platforms? Do you have a reasonably fast Internet connection and reasonable access rules? My main development system currently: P4, 1.6Ghz, generic name brand 17" flat screen 512MB RAM (.NET takes up so much RAM!) 40GB primary hard disk 10GB hard disk on the second IDE controller for the swap file Single monitor (do people find dual monitor useful?) XP Professional Cable Internet Linksys router PlexWriter CDRW I also have networked a IBM NetVista with W2000 for testing, and a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop for portability (I do a lot of contract work). I also have a generic W98 laptop that I drag out occasionally for testing. Marc
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I'm curious as to what people consider a really "sharp" development system. I recently added more RAM after loading .NET, and put my swap file on a second hard disk on the recommendations of a friend in order to boost disk swapping performance. What do you use? Does your employer provide you with the latest hardware and software? (I never found this to be true when I worked as an employee, which is part of the reason I'm a contractor now!) Do you test your software on multiple platforms? Do you have a reasonably fast Internet connection and reasonable access rules? My main development system currently: P4, 1.6Ghz, generic name brand 17" flat screen 512MB RAM (.NET takes up so much RAM!) 40GB primary hard disk 10GB hard disk on the second IDE controller for the swap file Single monitor (do people find dual monitor useful?) XP Professional Cable Internet Linksys router PlexWriter CDRW I also have networked a IBM NetVista with W2000 for testing, and a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop for portability (I do a lot of contract work). I also have a generic W98 laptop that I drag out occasionally for testing. Marc
P4, 2 Ghz, 19" monitor ( probably only a small amount larger than your flat screen ), about to upgrade from 512MB to a gig of RAM, 80 gig 7200 RPM HDD, 32x CDRW, DVD drive, Win2000 ( XP blows ), connected to two other PCs on my home network, one of which is a dedicated file store, the other is my print server ( and my daughters machine ). Oh, a second drive at 60 gig, which is for swapping as well as having 50 gig of mp3's on it. Christian Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Cats, and most other animals apart from mad cows can write fully functional vb code. - Simon Walton - 6-Aug-2002
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I'm curious as to what people consider a really "sharp" development system. I recently added more RAM after loading .NET, and put my swap file on a second hard disk on the recommendations of a friend in order to boost disk swapping performance. What do you use? Does your employer provide you with the latest hardware and software? (I never found this to be true when I worked as an employee, which is part of the reason I'm a contractor now!) Do you test your software on multiple platforms? Do you have a reasonably fast Internet connection and reasonable access rules? My main development system currently: P4, 1.6Ghz, generic name brand 17" flat screen 512MB RAM (.NET takes up so much RAM!) 40GB primary hard disk 10GB hard disk on the second IDE controller for the swap file Single monitor (do people find dual monitor useful?) XP Professional Cable Internet Linksys router PlexWriter CDRW I also have networked a IBM NetVista with W2000 for testing, and a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop for portability (I do a lot of contract work). I also have a generic W98 laptop that I drag out occasionally for testing. Marc
Athlon XP 2000+ 768 MB DDR 266 RAM (hehehe, VS.NET, 10 explorer windows, three word documents, minimized Unreal Tournament and a bunch of background tasks, all with RAM to spare!) 17" UXGA non-flat CRT (:() XP Professional 60 GB hard disk 56K Modem (:(() GeForce 3 Ti 500 SoundBlaster Live! Value I'm getting sweet Toshiba laptop[^] very soon: Pentium 4-M 1.7 GHz 16" UXGA screen 512 MB DDR 266 RAM GeForce 4 Ti 440 XP Professional (after I wipe the drives and get rid of all the OEM crap) 60 GB hard disk DVD/CD-RW Integrated Wi-Fi and 10/100 ethernet A remote control (:-D)
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I'm curious as to what people consider a really "sharp" development system. I recently added more RAM after loading .NET, and put my swap file on a second hard disk on the recommendations of a friend in order to boost disk swapping performance. What do you use? Does your employer provide you with the latest hardware and software? (I never found this to be true when I worked as an employee, which is part of the reason I'm a contractor now!) Do you test your software on multiple platforms? Do you have a reasonably fast Internet connection and reasonable access rules? My main development system currently: P4, 1.6Ghz, generic name brand 17" flat screen 512MB RAM (.NET takes up so much RAM!) 40GB primary hard disk 10GB hard disk on the second IDE controller for the swap file Single monitor (do people find dual monitor useful?) XP Professional Cable Internet Linksys router PlexWriter CDRW I also have networked a IBM NetVista with W2000 for testing, and a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop for portability (I do a lot of contract work). I also have a generic W98 laptop that I drag out occasionally for testing. Marc
In response to the "do people find dual monitor useful", my resounding answer would have to be "Ooooooh yes!". Especially when using VS.Net. My personal preference is nothing but code on the "main" screen along with the toolbox and properties windows un-pinned, and all other windows layed out on the "secondary" screen, such as the solution explorer, server explorer, output window, all debug windows, etc, etc... Even running the primary at 1280x1024 on a 21" CRT, I couldn't imagine having to work with all of those windows on a single screen, not to mention the inevitable email app running, SQL Enterprise Manager and/or Query Analyzer, and half-a-dozen browser windows. If there were one investment I'd tell a fellow coder to make, it would be a second video card (or single, dual-output card) and a second monitor. Ryan LaNeve www.laneve.com
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P4, 2 Ghz, 19" monitor ( probably only a small amount larger than your flat screen ), about to upgrade from 512MB to a gig of RAM, 80 gig 7200 RPM HDD, 32x CDRW, DVD drive, Win2000 ( XP blows ), connected to two other PCs on my home network, one of which is a dedicated file store, the other is my print server ( and my daughters machine ). Oh, a second drive at 60 gig, which is for swapping as well as having 50 gig of mp3's on it. Christian Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Cats, and most other animals apart from mad cows can write fully functional vb code. - Simon Walton - 6-Aug-2002
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You don't think I *need* all that hardware, do you ? Boasting is the only reason I bought it !!! Christian Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Cats, and most other animals apart from mad cows can write fully functional vb code. - Simon Walton - 6-Aug-2002
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In response to the "do people find dual monitor useful", my resounding answer would have to be "Ooooooh yes!". Especially when using VS.Net. My personal preference is nothing but code on the "main" screen along with the toolbox and properties windows un-pinned, and all other windows layed out on the "secondary" screen, such as the solution explorer, server explorer, output window, all debug windows, etc, etc... Even running the primary at 1280x1024 on a 21" CRT, I couldn't imagine having to work with all of those windows on a single screen, not to mention the inevitable email app running, SQL Enterprise Manager and/or Query Analyzer, and half-a-dozen browser windows. If there were one investment I'd tell a fellow coder to make, it would be a second video card (or single, dual-output card) and a second monitor. Ryan LaNeve www.laneve.com