Its a great little tool. I have been using it for a over a year now and it simplifies the dev environment issues by sandboxing it. In general, it allows you to isolate your development servers and other such programs and libraries in a sandbox. You can use the editors, browsers etc on your local machine however the servers and other heavy lifting can be done by the vm in the sandbox env. I think this is still bleeding edge stuff as I dont see very many developers using this. Would love to hear experiences of fellow hackers.
One question - I use vagrant with VirtualBox as the provider. Has any body used vagrant with the VMware provider. Wondering if one sees better performance on vmware than virtualbox. Specially when you are running everything (host and guest) on the same hdd.
On my Mac, using VMware was rougly 4 times faster than VirtualBox, particularly when running very long puppet scripts and using memory. I was very happy to pay for the VMware Fusion support and to buy VMware Fusion in the first place (it is 10x better than Parallels for the VM client drivers alone). The tricky bits for me were, at least a few months ago, some of the commands were different and of course the base OS VMs should be different given different client drivers. But it is possible to have one Vagrantfile serve both VirtualBox and VMware Fusion, so devs can choose which environment works best for them.
I've used both. Honestly, I don't have any hard stats to back this up but in a Unix environment, VirtualBox is the way to go. I've done a bit of dev on a Windows machine, for training purposes, and I've found that VMware has better performance.
Again, this is based solely on subjective, empirical data.
Employers will always have the upper hand because in the western world discussing/knowing salaries of peers is considered taboo( I never understood this as somebody who comes from the east where asking friends and peers their salary is very normal). Level the playing field. Discuss your salary more openly and you will see things get fairer( if that's a word). Not all will make the same but you will get to what you deserve very quickly. It also helps by letting you get an idea of what you need to do to get to the next level. Would love to hear the communities thoughts on this somewhat contrarian view.
Do you see any performance issues. How long have you been using this setup ? Just wondering if the SSD's on the air can handle the extra I/O without shortening its life drastically.
Good point. Your comment about being face in the crowd is similar to the gut feeling I had. I guess the question now becomes how does one really start a professional services business (read I'd like to have a business where I can help other businesses migrate to the cloud, which I think can be a viable service business)
The idea here is to create visible accomplishments that distinguish yourself from others. This could be a web site or something open source or it could be, "I did X for Company Y and it increased their revenue by Z".
People in business like action, so prove that you can do things.
Flagpole marketing, fully developed, can bring leads to you, hot leads that are already deeply interested and who you can quickly close sales with.
(2) Fishing. Here you build a list of prospects, contact them, work them and turn them into customers.
There are many ways to make a list. If you're looking for businesses in your area, read the newspaper and note any news about companies you haven't heard about. Go to the commercial park and write down the name of companies you see on the plaques. If you cold call somebody who won't be a customer, try to get a referral to somebody who could be.
It's hard work and you can reasonably expect to spend 1/3 of your time doing it.
FB doesn't delete any info - period. They seem to archive everything. For example, if you post a photo, then delete it, they still archive it. Delete to you is Archive to them. I have been doing small tests and this is what I have found.
You could then manipulate that file to hand remove duplicates, could use A2=A1 type formula in a spreadsheet and fill down to find dupes, copy relevant column to text file and sort and uniq in *nix: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_uniq.htm
And then GPLv3 your script, put it on GitHub, use a default GitHub template to create a nice looking site for it, and post the link back to HN with the cool doc saying how to use it.
One question - I use vagrant with VirtualBox as the provider. Has any body used vagrant with the VMware provider. Wondering if one sees better performance on vmware than virtualbox. Specially when you are running everything (host and guest) on the same hdd.