At work I spend 8 hours a day invested in one facet of web development or another.  I have been noticing that I spend less and less time working directly from my Windows box.  PuTTy is my BFF!  While working with Java based web services it’s not very practical, or good practice to be, developing on a Windows machine when ultimately it will be shipped over to Linux for production.  What is the point of developing through Windows when the target is *nix?  The sole reason I haven’t made the change prior is because much of the licensed software is for Windoze.  I’ve been giving it some thought and since any IDE or DBMS application that I need have a greater, or at very least an acceptable, *nix counterpart.  So today I popped in the Ubuntu install disk, kissed Windows goodbye, and am now looking forward to a more streamlined development approach.  Just in case I feel the need to play with DLL’s I have a Windows box with VNC that I can remote into

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