Finally Exorcised Windows from my Development Laptop
I’ve done some posting in the past about how nice Cygwin is if you find yourself forced to develop in a Windows environment. Even better than Cygwin is no Windows at all, a state which I finally achieved after my solid state drive crashed and I had to redo my system. As I was going about the task of installing Windows yet again I started asking myself if I really wanted to put up with Read the rest of this entry »
Windows Tricks For Whacking Lingering Java Processes That Tie Up Your Ports and Cause Other Mischief
When forced to use Windoze, I absolutely depend on Cygwin to keep from going completely insane. But there are cases where Cygwin just doesn’t quite work like good ol’ Linux/Unix, and in these cases you need to do a little extra work. One such case occurs with the ‘kill’ command. Read the rest of this entry »
Install Cygwin In C:/ and You Will Suffer Eternal Damnation (T or F?)
I might be playing with fire, but I always install Cygwin at the top level directory of my C: drive — even though the nice people from Cygwin tell you (right at the beginning of the install) that they “recommend you do NOT use the root of your hard drive as the Cgywin root.” Read the rest of this entry »
Building A Custom Cygwin Installer
Intro – How This And Other Articles Relate To What We Do At The Labs
As this is our blog’s inaugural article, I wanted the content to really reflect the focus of our consulting practice and product development efforts. We founded our business to help our clients squeeze the monkey work out of their software development process, and one of the biggest unnecessary time sponges we see is the frequent occurrence of ‘it works on my box, why not yours?’ types of problems. Many of these occur simply because one of your developers’ environments is missing a third-party component on which some script or procedure depends. If your shop includes a mix of Windows and Linux/Unix developers then one way to ensure that everyone is working off the same set of dependencies is to equip each Windows box with a standardized set of Cygwin utilities. Read the rest of this entry »
