Re: Hardware Requirements for a New Job

[Beth Agnew <beth -dot- agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>]

There's a good case to be made for having a machine to run the product 
on that is as close to the user's typical setup as possible. While it's 
great to have all the bells and whistles on our own working machines, 
for properly documenting the product it's best to see how it runs on a 
system that can't call on a library of .dlls, scripts, or other goodies 
the code might go looking for.

How many of us end up installing the product on the same machine we 
write on? Too many, I'd bet. That's why when it crashes first time you 
install it, the developer always says "Well, it works on MY machine." 
See what your manager says when you ask for TWO computers. :-)

Bill Swallow wrote: