Development environment + windows = 2 machines

November 3, 2008 · Filed under Personal, Technology

Warning, rant ahead!

Today I started to plan the deployment of a ASP.NET web application. For months we have been developing this web application in our development machines, but it was time to prepare an environment as much similar as possible to the production one.

So the production environment has a IIS 6.0 Web server running on a Windows 2003 server installation. Can I put IIS 6.0 on my windows XP? No, I cannot. Microsoft only allows a restricted 5.1 version. I can install the same Apache HTTP server that I can put on a production machine, a PostrgreSQL server, etc. I’m thinking in open source based solutions and I can setup my machine in a very similar the production environment will be. But not if you use Microsoft Windows.

I’m not saying that having another machine for testing is bad. It’s a good idea to have an exact copy of your production environment for final testing. But also being able to test in your machine without many dependences helps a lot when debugging new features.

I didn’t finished whining. We got some more problems on the database side, because the Microsoft SQL Server Express doesn’t want to accept connections with username and password. Till now we used windows based authentication. But the IIS 5.1 web applications don’t play well whith windows authentication (Even if the application was set to run as the same user I use in my computer).

So I see myself replacing my Windows XP by a Windows 2003 server and finding another machine for a real Microsoft SQL server installation.

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    kat said,

    2008-11-04 @ 7.43 am

    I’m forced to use Windows occasionally at work and in my male counterpart’s office, and we both think it sucks. But since we’re not as technologically as advanced as you, I suppose we tolerate it.

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    brandonh said,

    2008-11-28 @ 4.55 am

    i can’t believe there has only been one comment here. i have been using windows at work forever, but since i’ve been doing development, it’s even worse than it was before. not to mention, all of my applications need to work in IE (the anti-Christ).

    i have made a claim that i will NEVER buy a microsoft operating system again, and i hope that the continuing advancements in the kernel will allow me to keep that promise.

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