On 01 Nov 2007, at 18:42, Lee Bolding wrote: > On 1 Nov 2007, at 13:07, Tom Haskins-Vaughan wrote: > >> I'm intrigued. Tell me more... > > Umm... there isn't much more to tell. > > This is the setup I currently have - I have the MAMP stack installed > locally on my MacBook Pro for quick-n-dirty testing, and use TextMate > for editing. Unfortunately, there are some functions and binaries > that just don't work on the Mac, and the Mac isn't my ultimate > deployment platform, so I have several Linux VMs configured in > Parallels (it's like VMWare if you don't already know). I deploy my > code to those VMs for development and testing. It can be awfully > handy to be able to create your own private mirror of a live server > for testing purposes - and if you want to do something drastic to it > that may trash it, just right click and copy the VM so you have a > disposable VM you can trash :) > > You can also easily play about with different server architectures - > load balancing, clustering, mysql replicas, memcached nodes, that > kind of thing - that is providing that you have enough RAM to run all > of your VMs concurrently. > > I've come to rely on it so much that just today I've decided to > upgrade my MacBook to a 24" iMac with 4GB RAM - I have some VMs that > need more than the 2GB the MacBook can offer (and a 24" screen is > going to be gorgeous to develop with). > > Have I convinced everyone to rush out and buy a Mac? ;)
If I didn't already develop on Mac, you would have. :-P As it is, I can only second this - I do the same, and it works a charm! Alexander --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
