Dec 222004
 

If you are a serious developer, you are testing your products against different environments. But that’s difficult. You can’t have IE 4, IE 5 and IE 6 on one system, or you have to choose between Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Or between Windows 2000 server and Windows 2003 server. And why does that stupid client still wants NT4 support?

It sounds like a commercial, but if you have VMWare Workstation, these problems are solved. I bought it in the 3.x days, when VMWare started to be a REAL alternative to a multi-OS-boot. I skipped version 4, because I didn’t need the new features. But there is a beta for version 5 now. It supports all the latest OS-es out there and a few more 😉 The beta is public, but if you’re not a VMWare customer yet, you need to sign up. Go to this page for instructions.

 Posted by at 09:01
Dec 222004
 

Commercial products Visual Studio and Borland Delphi/JBuilder, and free Sharpdevelop have a strong competitor in the IDE-market: X-Develop. Currently only available as preview download, X-Develop promises to be a very strong competitor. Already supported languages are Java, J# (up to 2.0 including generics), C# (up to 2.0 including generics), VB.NET, but it’s language plug-in API opens the door for others as well.

One very interesting (Java) feature is the back-in-time debugger, that allows to step through the code up to the point where things went bonkers.

Developers taking their work back home might be glad to hear that X-Develop is fully compatible with VS.NET SLN-files, including VS.NET 2005.

X-Develop is created by the same people that bring us CodeGuide, an IDE for Java and JSP.

 Posted by at 08:43