On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Randy Fay <randy@randyfay.com> wrote:
One great resource everybody should know about is the Quickstart Project, http://drupal.org/project/quickstart, which provides a completely-set-up Ubuntu instance, with Drupal configured, Apache, Mysql, Eclipse, Netbeans, everything all there out of the box. You can run it in the free Virtualbox environment on Mac, Windows, or Ubuntu. You avoid the speed problems of Windows that way.
It's a fantastic resource.
-Randy
It's quite impressive, I agree. I wish their drush customizations worked better with drupal7, though. That said, I run a Windows box using Windows 7, 64 bit, 4 GB ram and some chip that was new a few years ago. I do most of my development work in virtualbox, either in ubuntu machines I create myself or now using the quickstart instance. The joys of virtualbox is that my machines can be paused - so I can shut down my host machine for the night without having to get everything in place when I start workign again, machines can also be exported and copied to other machines. When I was working on my presentation for Drupalcamp, I did up most of the presentation on my desktop, and then just exported it and copied it to a laptop to continue using all of my pre-set-up examples and all without having to worry a bit. -- John Fiala www.jcfiala.net