[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

[Kevin Loch]

Better than having them test on a slow machine, make a slow machine their "main" machine.
The one they have to browser, read email and do everything else on.  And if they
would normally use the program they are developing, they have to only use it on that
machine.
This will give them a better appereciation for what they are supposed to do :)

KL

Steve Sandau wrote:

> > > Developers should be forced to work on a machine that has 1/10th the speed
> > > and 1/4 the ram of the intended (or current) platform.   Imagine how much better
> > > mozilla would be if it was developed for an SS5-110 or a PI-133 with no more than 64
> > > megs.
> > > The problem is people code slow, sloppy, ineficcient code because it runs fine on
> > > the typical
> > > developer machine (which is almost always better/faster than the typical users
> > > machine).
> >
> > The problem there is you'll need to give the programmers a super-fast
> > cross-compile machine on which they can only build, never run and test,
> > their programs (and of course at the same time make it easy for them to
> > build on the fast machine, and test on the slow machine).
>
> We do the same type of thing by giving the developers decent machines,
> but also giving them a "test" machine that's a duplicate of their
> customers' machines. Easier for us because a customer's machine is
> fairly predictable (Navy office). "One" could do this by forcing
> developers to troubleshoot/test their work on a normal-to-slow machine.
> I bet this is something that *some* developers *don't* have to do... ;)
>
> --
> Steve Sandau
> ssandau at bath.tmac.com
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