[Ruby] Greetings from Alaska

[Daevid Vincent]

That's exactly what I do too.. I use XP and have a VMWare Gentoo with all my
LAMP and Ruby stuff on it. No X. It works awesome. And it's really nice to
be able to take snapshots as well as copy the VM around from my desktop to
notebook to home, even in a 'frozen' state! Just copy the directory and
start where I left off...

VMWare is pretty much the coolest "killer application" ever written. Shure
there are other imitators and VMs in and of themselves are nothing "new"
(IBM has done it for years on their mainframes), but none are as stable and
feature packed as VMWare IMHO.

DÆVID  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ruby-bounces at zenspider.com 
> [mailto:ruby-bounces at zenspider.com] On Behalf Of Joe Van Dyk
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 10:08 AM
> To: Seattle Ruby Brigade!
> Subject: Re: [Ruby] Greetings from Alaska
> 
> On 10/2/06, Neil Moomey <neil at motznik.com> wrote:
> > Thanks James,  I think you are right about not missing the 
> event model.  I
> > especially disliked that every html page was a web form 
> with a requirement
> > for posting to the server to communicate.  It resulted in 
> too many hits to
> > the server and slow web pages.  They tried too hard to replicate VB
> > programming experience.  ASP.NET is such a monster of a 
> beast it takes too
> > long to master for web development.  I think they lost 
> allot of their ASP
> > fans when they switched. I will however miss Intellisense 
> and other nice to
> > have features of Visual Studio.  I'm currently using 
> RadRails on Windows
> > which seems to work ok but needs more work.
> >
> > Also, thanks for the resources tips everyone.
> 
> I've found that running Ubuntu in vmware on Windows (then using ssh to
> access the vm) is a good way to develop RoR apps on Windows.
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