+1 for VM’s I work remotely from our head office. My whole development environment is a VM in our head offices
I work in an RDP environment all day. At first I thought the lag would bother me but it hasn’t so far. The connection speed is good so I don’t notice any difference. My VM is running 24/7. The great thing about this is that I can get onto my development machine from anywhere in the world and from any device connected to the internet with RDP. Be it either a PC, Mac, Ipad or Iphone. I also use cloud services such as Dropbox to sync my entire work folder with my laptop. So I can go Offline at any point and still do development and access my work documents. Evernote is also a great cloud service to keep all your documents and notes to access them anywhere. The other great features of having a VM for a Development machine is being able to snapshot. If I want to trail some software I can snapshot mess around all I like and then if I break anything I can snapshot back to my working version. The only issue I have faced is that browsing websites with animations/video is horrible over RDP. Also using Photoshop and AI. So I revert back to my desktop. But with browsers like Chrome it’s easy to open your session from one machine to another. I currently work with 4 monitors and would really like to use RDP on 3 out of the 4. Leaving the 4th to be the local machine. This isn’t possible with RDP as you only have all monitors or 1. Regards Adrian Halid From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Chesnut Sent: Friday, 22 March 2013 5:15 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Develop over RDP I do development every day on either my VMs or Client VMs and use RDP 95% of the time to access them. As a consultant I am looking to move to something like a surface pro as my traveling machine and the depend on RDP for all my development environments. Bill Chesnut Microsoft Integration MVP (BizTalk) Melbourne, Australia Richard Moore <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> , 3/21/2013 8:10 PM: Hi all Is it common practice to have developers RDP into a central server for the purposes of doing their day to day development? This is the first time I have encountered it, I’m used to developers having VMs on their local PCs. Kind regards Richard
