London User Group - Tuesday 6th November 2007

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:36:29 GMT

Thanks to everybody that came along to the user group session last week. Thanks also to Robert and Dean for presenting; I think you'll agree, the whole virtualisation thing is very interesting. In addition to the benefits you get by virtualising the various environments used within a software development project, a couple of use cases I find compelling are :

Virtualising the continuous integration environment : no more excuses for not having enough hardware.
Building a virtualised non-functional test environment : this makes testing aspects such as scalability, availability, resilience, fault-tolerance, etc much easier.

Switching to the desktop, we talked about the use of virtualisation to standardise developer desktops, which is an interesting idea although I'm not sure there was a general consensus on whether it's a *good* idea. Something I did like, however, was using virtualisation to solve the problem of getting access to different environments for web browser compatability testing. You can use the free VMware Player to run whichever OS and browser combination you need (assuming you have the virtual machines, of course).

The next user group has been booked for Thursday, 6th December and the topic will be "From Developer to Architect". I'll post the full details later in the week.

London User Group - Tuesday 6th November 2007

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:02:00 GMT

Here are the details of the next Coding the Architecture London User Group.

Title : Virtualisation For Development
Summary : Robert Annett and Dean Smith will talk about how virtualisation can help your development process and ease your architectural problems while saving you money and time.
Date : Tuesday, 6th November 2007
Time : 18:30-20:00
Location : Skills Matter, 1 Sekforde Street
Format : Presentation followed by a breakout for discussion, with further discussion in a local pub (The Crown).

Please sign-up on the Skills Matter website.

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London User Group - Tuesday 6th November 2007

London User Group - Tuesday 6th November 2007