On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, John Campbell wrote:
> My new computer has a glossy display, and the
> reflection is terrible with a black background in the terminal.
Did you not expect that? Its the major complaint with the glossy Apple
laptops... Im not sure but at some point Apple decided to ship all th
Thanks for all the very informative replies, and sorry to reply so
late myself.
I always planned on talking to a lawyer, but I absolutely hate to go
into timed/paid meetings with someone when I don't have a clue about
what's going on. I wanted to get a better feeling for what I was
dealing with an
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Jake McGraw wrote:
> 4GB RAM is the minimum that I would recommend for any laptop, as this
> is the sweet spot in most instances:
>
> * Represents the maximum most laptop mobos will support.
The 4GB limitation is mostly do to the fact that that is the limit of
the
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Glenn Powell wrote:
> A little off topic now...
>
> Took me a day or 2 to get used to a white background.
>
> Btw, I use vim, and open white backgrounds for my dev, and use different
> colors for ssh to db servers, production web servers, etc.
>
> I think it help
4GB RAM is the minimum that I would recommend for any laptop, as this
is the sweet spot in most instances:
* Represents the maximum most laptop mobos will support.
* Most laptop mobos only support 2 sticks of RAM, which brings me to
my next point.
* 2GB DDR sticks offer the best $/GB ratio:
Compa
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:49 PM, David Mintz wrote:
> I wonder what the real minimum specs are for ZendStudio.
Well, yeah. It's a big ball of Java, you need to have room for the jvm.
I know it's annoying when people say RAM is cheap, but RAM is pretty cheap.
Glenn Powell glenn310b-at-mac.com |nyphp MAIN ONE dev/internal group
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On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:02 PM, John Campbell wrote:
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Allen Shaw
wrote:
I'd love to hear any advice on what makes a good web developer's
machine.
At this point I don't have a lot o
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Jake McGraw wrote:
> Get the cheapest Intel based, aluminum MacBook with an end-user
> serviceable HD and RAM. Do not buy the white plastic MacBooks, they
> chip and warp like crazy, I've owned 4 (3 companies + 1 for my
> girlfriend) and every single one has warpe
Get the cheapest Intel based, aluminum MacBook with an end-user
serviceable HD and RAM. Do not buy the white plastic MacBooks, they
chip and warp like crazy, I've owned 4 (3 companies + 1 for my
girlfriend) and every single one has warped or chipped in some way.
Throw in 4GB+ RAM and at least a 720
On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:02 PM, John Campbell wrote:
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Allen Shaw
wrote:
I'd love to hear any advice on what makes a good web developer's
machine.
At this point I don't have a lot of places to ask, other than
vendors
who'll just sell me as much as they can con
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Allen Shaw
wrote:
> I'd love to hear any advice on what makes a good web developer's machine.
> At this point I don't have a lot of places to ask, other than vendors
> who'll just sell me as much as they can con me into.
I just got a new MacBook Pro today, and I
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Allen Shaw
wrote:
> Who here is happy with their current development machine? Would you care to
> share your hardware specs?
>
> I'm looking to upgrade my 7-year old desktop for something with a little
> more snap. Hopefully under $1000, but it's been ages since
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Brian O'Connor wrote:
> [Buy a laptop.] This way, you get the luxury of portability ... In
> addition, you don't have 2 separate computers where you have to worry about
> file syncing (I know, I know, remote repositories - but that's not as easy
> as it sounds
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Dan Cech wrote:
> Try:
>
> $text = @iconv('UTF-8','UTF-8//TRANSLIT',$text);
Thanks Dan,
I knew there had to be something simple.
It looks like mb_convert_encoding($txt,'UTF-8','UTF-8') will work
similarly, but just deletes the offending bytes.
Regards,
John Cam
Hi Allen
Two must-read's from Linus Torvalds and Jeff Atwood about SSD's:
http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html
That's my next upgrade!
Rada Varshavskaya
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 21:24, wrote:
>
>
Brian O'Connor wrote:
> I think the ideal solution is to get
> a portable laptop (13"/15" screen, lightweight) that has a video out of some
> sort (whether it be HDMI/VGA/DVI). This way, you get the luxury of
> portability (client meetings, airports/planes, trains, coffee shops), and
> when you wa
I'm in the middle of looking for a new laptop to go along nicely with web
development right now, so I figure I'd share my 2 cents.
Right now, I have a desktop with 2 22" widescreen monitors, but am looking
for a laptop to complement it.
In my opinion, with web development (and programming in gene
Buy a MacBook/MacBook Pro You will love it. I finally switched after
keeping an eye on them for many yrs. Should've switched sooner! You
get the best of both geek and user-friendly app worlds. I use
Microsoft Office for office tasks, and terminal shell to login to
remote servers or load up git sour
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 09:22:07PM -0400, Eddie Drapkin wrote:
> www.virtualbox.org
+1 on virtualbox. Although I am VMWare certified and use all their products,
for my own development platform on my laptop, I use virtualbox. It just works.
And, you can push images from virtualbox back and forth wi
Ive been very happy with a dual-core box I built based on a Shuttle
barebones kit (shuttle.com). They are very compact but capable machines.
I think being able to run virtual machines is important for web developers
so you'll want a box with a decent amount of RAM, maybe 4Gb. Also, two
monitor
John Campbell wrote:
> I am using a remote XML service, that about 1 in 100 times returns XML
> with invalid UTF-8 bytes. I don't have any control over the remote
> service, but simpleXML pukes when I pass malformed UTF-8 to it. Does
> anyone know of a simple way to cleanup bad UTF-8 bytes, e.g.
Michael B Allen wrote:
That is not my experience. I have 4-5 Windows and Linux guests running
at the same time in VMWare Server on cheap desktop grade boxes running
Linux. As long as you have a lot of memory (4 GB is good) and you
install VMWare Tools on the Windows guests, VMWare Server perform
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