We use VMs for all our development. We have a single development environment that has all the libraries, IDE, database etc. installed. Developers get the development VM and do all thier development in that VM, if we need to change the libs etc we do it once and the developers get a new VM. The only thing that they need to install are personal applications.
It works for us great so far, it is easy to go from C++ on Linux to C# 1.1 on XP to C# 2.0 to Delphi 2006. You just use the right image.
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I have an iPod, I don't own anything else Apple makes. It works fine under windows for me with the windows software out there.
Just search for Windows iPod and you will get there.
I have been working in the CS field since I was 17 (18 years ago). Getting a degree when starting out would only have helped me then. Now a degree would not raise my salary or get me a better job.
I think the original poster if he does not have the business contacts to find/change jobs as desired would be better server by going to school part time and continue working. I went to school part time (and later stopper before getting a degree) and found that most of the instructors had lost touch with reality. Heck some of them had never even worked outside of an academic environment.
So I would warn everyone going to college to take that into consideration, if you can find out what & when your instructors did in a real corporation stick to the ones that actually succeeded and have worked recently. Working at a failed company is not horrible either they may have some insights into what went wrong. You can learn the "programming" skills on your own easily. Try to learn the business side if you are going to go to school.
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We use VMs for all our development. We have a single development environment that has all the libraries, IDE, database etc. installed. Developers get the development VM and do all thier development in that VM, if we need to change the libs etc we do it once and the developers get a new VM. The only thing that they need to install are personal applications. It works for us great so far, it is easy to go from C++ on Linux to C# 1.1 on XP to C# 2.0 to Delphi 2006. You just use the right image.
I have an iPod, I don't own anything else Apple makes. It works fine under windows for me with the windows software out there. Just search for Windows iPod and you will get there.
I have been working in the CS field since I was 17 (18 years ago). Getting a degree when starting out would only have helped me then. Now a degree would not raise my salary or get me a better job. I think the original poster if he does not have the business contacts to find/change jobs as desired would be better server by going to school part time and continue working. I went to school part time (and later stopper before getting a degree) and found that most of the instructors had lost touch with reality. Heck some of them had never even worked outside of an academic environment. So I would warn everyone going to college to take that into consideration, if you can find out what & when your instructors did in a real corporation stick to the ones that actually succeeded and have worked recently. Working at a failed company is not horrible either they may have some insights into what went wrong. You can learn the "programming" skills on your own easily. Try to learn the business side if you are going to go to school.