January 06, 2004
Happy days

It's the little things in life that make us happy. Today is the last day I have a windows box on my desk at work. At least for a while.

I have the utmost respect for windows programmers, truly, I do.. I just don't make a very good one myself. Having me write windows software is a bit like having a VB programmer who has never used unix write apache modules. In my short, yet ever so annoying foray into the world of Microsoft-based-os programming I experienced Delphi programming and creating installation scripts with Wise (whose scripting language is the weirdest damn thing I've ever learned).

I cheated though.. I wrote my test utilities in perl.

Today, i lovingly deleted all my personal files, cheerfully cleaned out the application list and shutdown the machine. It's being taken away tomorrow morning and I'll be left with my ever so much slower and older, but yet reliable, trustworthy and linux equipped pc.

I'm all smiles, it's the little things.

Posted January 06, 2004 08:59 PM in Geek Stuff
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On January 6, 2004 09:38 PM garrett added:

What I wouldn't give to be rid of my windows machine at work...

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On January 7, 2004 12:13 PM Mike added:

Oddly enough, I came from a Unix background, but I sold my soul and now write software for Windows in Delphi and also do packaging in Wise Package Studio in Wise scripting.

So my employer forces me to use Windows, because we're a Microsoft shop. However, you'll find my intranet web servers are Apache running mod_php under Windows 2000, and my databases are all MySQL. I am thinking about using Python for scripting some of the logic in SMS deployments rather than writing custom applications or using Wise packages.

I find that I'm better off for having the combination of skills, seeing both sides. I definitely prefer the Unix side, though.

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On January 7, 2004 03:15 PM NiceguyUK added:

I'm a Windows programmer that uses Linux at home and on his laptop. I get the best of both worlds, although I do find myself saying things like "this would be so much easier in Linux" far more often now. Although I now have a tolerable C#.Net development in environment under Linux now (Mono + GTK# + Glade + Anjuta) which might help me cut down my Windows time even more (I'm a .Net developer for a living).

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