[Techtalk] Coding on fast computers while considering slow computers

[John Sturdy]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Tracey <tclark77 at tlcnet.info> wrote:

> I don't agree that developers should be forced to code on older / slower
> computers either, for the reasons Wim has stated. You want their IDE's to
> load quickly. You don't want to shackle them to old technology.
>
> What I think is a good idea to give developers (and others in the
> application writing process) a good feel for how their work loads on various
> machines is the concept of "eating your own dog food". Make them use the
> software on an average machine and a slow machine.

It's easy enough to have one machine for running the development
environment and one for testing... this is normal where I'm working
now, where our software is specifically meant to run on laptops but we
compile on desktops; but it could equally well be done with fast and
slow desktops.

__John