Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Re: Django Development environment

On 08/31/2011 01:46 PM, graeme wrote:
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> On Aug 31, 1:16 pm, Jani Tiainen<rede...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 08/28/2011 12:31 PM, Simon Connah wrote:
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>>> On 28 Aug 2011, at 04:41, Sam Walters wrote:
>>
>>>> Debug client-side:
>>>> firebug, yslow, a windows computer with ie7
>>
>>> Rather than using a separate computer with IE 7 I tend to just spin up an Amazon EC2 instance running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 for a couple of hours. It makes everything so much easier when it comes to testing.
>>
>> Or you can always download "Internet Explorer Application Compatibility
>> VPC Image" [1] images from Microsoft directly.
>>
>> (there are IE6 - IE9 images available) for testing websites. Very useful
>> with VirtualBox.
>>
>> [1]http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575
>
> I thought it took a bit of work to get those VPC images to work with
> VirtualBox. The last time I looked they were tied to Virtual PC
> (virtual) hardware, and had activation issues with VirtualBox. Has
> that changed?
>

VirtualBox 4.1 in Ubuntu

Just downloaded image parts, extracted multipart rar package. Then comes
the tricky part:

When creating new VM you trick is to attach VHD image as an IDE drive,
not SATA (Defautl creation attaches image as SATA). And of course you
don't try to activate it but that's enough for testing.

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Jani Tiainen

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