Development

January 23, 2020

Yes, You Can Run Docker AND Virtualbox on Windows 10 Home

By Al Crowley, TCG Principal Engineer Running Docker containers on a Windows 10 PC has been difficult for the last few years. It’s even more difficult if you want to run VirtualBox virtual machines (VM) at the same time. A casual Google…

February 15, 2015

Google Hangouts Development Sandbox is not Down, but Hiding

If you are developing a Google Hangout App, don’t be surprised if you press the “Enter a hangout in developer sandbox” link and get an ugly 404 error. Take the resulting URL, that looks like: https://hangoutsapi.talkgadget.google.com/hangouts?authuser=0&gid=110709744297 grab the GID (in my case…

February 28, 2012

Virtual Development Paradigm

I use virtual machines (VM) for nearly all my development. When I am doing any serious work, the first step is to fire up VirtualBox on my desktop and launch the VM that I am using for that project. If you don’t…

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