Archive for April 28th, 2008

Displaying The Correct Timezone Time

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Yes, I know, displaying the time with JavaScript. Something that’s been written about since the dawn of time. Following is a trivial bit of code, but one that I thought others might find useful. We are working with a client whose application broadcasts meetings (and screen captures from those meetings) to client computers. A very cool project that I’d like to write about some day. With regard to time, there are 2 requirements:

  1. Time must be in Eastern Standard Time (or Eastern Daylight Time)
  2. They shouldn’t have to configure any settings to adjust for daylight savings time

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The Power of Virtualization

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I’ve spent a considerable amount of time lately creating virtual machines on my work and home computers. In an effort to come up with a set of environments that make developing and testing applications easier I initially setup Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. In the few weeks that I’ve used it I have found that I need more than just Windows options in my virtual environments. This weekend I decided to give VMware Server a test drive … and just as quickly decided to uninstall MS Virtual PC. VMware Server is a free download, and according to the vmware website:

VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Streamline software development and testing and simplify server provisioning as you utilize the ability to “build once, deploy many times.”

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