rexVM – A virtualBox Appliance for Developing for The REX 6000
As most of you readers probably know, I have been terribly remiss in my postings of late. That isn't to say that I haven't been hacking. Oh no. Bootstrapping a startup requires hacking all over the place. During the past week alone I've
- Gotten to know my franchise tax agent on a first name basis
- Authored contracts, which in my opinion should be written in python
- Authored a research paper on novel methods for efficient bulk virtual machine storage and retrieval (stay tuned for that one!)
- Reminded myself daily why I use git, while writing features integrating svn, cvs, etc
- Created what, I am fairly sure, is the world's largest openWRT/BCM5354 firmware image/executable set
- Created at least 10 new project virtual machines
Which actually brings me out of my /startup header and back into :/publish . One of the terrific things about founding a startup (ducks!) is the flexibility you get while setting up your workflow. Long a proponent of integrating virtual machines into business processes, I have been enjoying the real freedom a robust virtualized system can provide. I'll get into the detailed workflow later in the post. For those 'first page only' readers I'll get to the golden ticket, I recently picked up a REX 6000 credit card PDA for 6$ at the local thrift.
Read on for (much) more and download links!
A Quick Tuesday Prediction
Being capitalists, Microsoft will shortly roll out a buyback program for downloaded Xbox Live arcade games. Games can be "returned" for 1000 Microsoft points, with the caveat that if you want to re-download the game, it will cost you full price. Corollary prediction, they will make money hand over fist. That is all.