Never Use This Font » VMware http://neverusethisfont.com/blog Aaron Parecki is the co-founder of Geoloqi.com, and specializes in backend systems development. Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:50:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 The Ultimate Web Developer Setup http://neverusethisfont.com/blog/2008/01/the-ultimate-web-developer-setup/ http://neverusethisfont.com/blog/2008/01/the-ultimate-web-developer-setup/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:02:09 +0000 aaron http://blog.neverusethisfont.com/2008/01/the-ultimate-web-developer-setup/ Using VMware Fusion and Multiple IEs, I set up my iMac to run the four major browsers simultaneously! IE 7, IE6, Firefox and Safari. With a 1920×1200 display, I can get all four to fit on the screen at once.


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I no longer need to keep an extra Windows machine around here for debugging websites! “Multiple IEs” also can install IE 5.5, 5.1, 4 and 3, although I’m pretty sure those are almost completely irrelevant at this point.

One problem I did run into was that VMware in “Unity” mode didn’t seem to play well with Spaces. For example, sometimes after switching spaces a Windows app would lose focus and I wouldn’t be able to click it anymore. Switching to “Single Window” mode and then back again seemed to fix it.

Useful software:

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