Mike Benner

May, The Craziest Month of the Year

May 15 by Michael Benner

You may have noticed that my posts have been light lately. Well let me say, May needs more than 31 days. Not only is my personal life swamped (Mother's Day, Wife's Birthday, Grandpa-in-law's Birthday, Daughter's Birthday, Brother's Birthday, 3 Friend's Birthdays, Daughter's Dance Recital, Daughter's Kindergarten Grad and moving cross country, oh yeah and a 1 week long business trip). Yup, I usually just take this month off, but this year the community has several exciting things going on. Here are a few things I am currently playing with.

OpenBD released, with a VMware image, Coldbox 2.6 Beta and ColdBricks Beta.

I have been

playing with the VMWare Image and I have to say, VMWare is so much slower than Parallels. I am going to make a Parallels image and upload it for others that use Parallels, I should have this ready by Monday.

I *heart* Coldbox. I am currently porting my software pipelineSuite to Coldbox for its next version and every day I get more impressed. I am also going to install Coldbox on the Parallels image above since Sana announced today that it is working on openBD.

As for Coldbricks, I have gotten as far as downloading it. I am hoping to crack it open tomorrow or Saturday, and will post my findings.

Here are some links for you:

Coldbricks
Coldbox Framework
Coldbox on OpenBD

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Hi Mike
I have used Parallels before, but it was always slower then VMWare :-). I think it depends on the Hadrware you run it on. I am working on a MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHZ with 4GB Ram.
VMWare Fusion is realy fast here.
You could also increase the Ram of the image since I only used 512MB.

# Posted By Nitai Aventaggiato | 5/16/08 4:33 AM

Yup, I am running a 2.33 GHZ MBP with 3GB of ram. But I should have clarified, I am not referring to the OpenBD image specifically (CentOS is running fine) it is just when I compare any of my images (Vista, XP, etc) in Parallels to their mate in VMWare Fusion, Parallels wins.

So instead of going out and purchasing VMWare just for OpenBD I figured I would just make one for Parallels.

# Posted By Mike Benner | 5/16/08 9:48 AM

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