VMWare Fusion, awesome!

I installed the trial version of VMWare's Fusion for the Mac so I could run Windows XP without boot camp. I had tried parallels and that program sucks. Fusion is just about as fast as the mac itself. The processor that shows up in windows is the same processor and since I have a Core 2 Duo, which has 2 cores it would appear that it depicates one to the virtual machine.

I will be buying this program for sure. Not have to reboot is a big time saver and it doesn't take up as much hard drive space as boot camp because it allocates more space as needed. You can use the hibernate feature in windows to allow for faster startup times.

I did run into a problem that was my own fault. I wanted to bump the memory down to 512 from 768 so that it will take even less time to come out of hibernatio. After I did that I tried to start it and it froze! Well that's what happens when you have a windows machine in the hibernate state and you effectively pull the chip out :)

The solution was to find the vm file in your ~Documents/Virtual Machines/ folder, right-click the file and do show file contents and delete the file like this one "Windows XP Professional.vmem"

After I did that it gave me a few error messages and basically allowed me to reboot the VM. There is also a text file that contains the settings such as memory size "Windows XP Professional.vmx" I had to edit that and set the memory back to 768.

SDLC Choose Wisely

Who hasn't heard about Agile, XP, and even SCRUM? They are the latest "in" thing for software development. I thought Agile was a way to do software quicker for small teams and deliver features at a time. Well I was partially right.

Agile requires that the customer is available for immediate feedback and that the team actually works on the project in the same room in a timebox (1 or 2 week iteration) so the customer can provide immediate feedback to the project team.

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Singing Michael