{"id":415,"date":"2016-03-13T01:41:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T01:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2024-01-26T05:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T05:25:11","slug":"virtualization-of-development-environments-useful-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Virtualization of Development Environments Useful Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I reformatted my computer after being fed up with a &#8220;dirty&#8221; Windows install. What I found was that because I was trying out so many different development environments, I was having trouble maintaining a clean foundation for future work. It occurred to me that a possible solution for this would be to virtualize operating systems with Ubuntu\/Linux, which of course would be license &#8220;free&#8221;. By using VirtualBox, I could run a couple VM&#8217;s with installed IDEs like IntelliJ or NetBeans, WAMP stack, or Visual Studio on a Windows License so that my localhost would be independent and freed up from walking all over each other. I remember last year working on something called Vagrant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagrantup.com\/docs\/getting-started\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vagrant<\/a> takes this idea a step much further by creating ready made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagrantup.com\/docs\/getting-started\/boxes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boxes<\/a>, hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/atlas.hashicorp.com\/boxes\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, for use by anybody. So if you want to quickly jump into a development environment, you can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I reformatted my computer after being fed up with a &#8220;dirty&#8221; Windows install. What I found was that because I was trying out so many different development environments, I was having trouble maintaining a clean foundation for future work. It occurred to me that a possible solution for this would be to virtualize operating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-interesting-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}