Now I have three development environments: an Intel Mac mini, Fedora Linux on my Dell 630 laptop, and I just installed Windows 7 Professional 64bit on my desktop. I thought it would be fun to re-install all of my applications. Actually I have an old Foxpro application that I need to spend some time on, and decided to setup an actual windows machine. I’ve been using a VM for years. There are other reasons, but suffice it to say, I now have development environments setup using three different operating systems.

The biggest surprise I had was JDeveloper. It doesn’t work with a 64 bit JVM in Windows. Crazy, Insane, I say – but it is true! There is a post about it here. I hear complaints about Linux, but I’ve been running JDeveloper under a 64 bit JVM since I first installed 11g without a problem and love the speed.

I am still in shock, something really simple that Linux just does, and Windows can’t.

So… why not too many posts lately? I have been spending a lot of time converting an Oracle Portal website to use Oracle UCM with Site Studio. The original plan was to use WCI, but the price tag was too high. It has been quite an experience, to say the least. I wish I could say that I like developing with IDOCScript, but really can’t. I remember developing with Vignette, which at the time used tcl with a lot of controversy. Vignette seemed to throw in the towel and offered both a JSP and ASP option, but I’m not sure if that really helped. (back to UCM) I’m torn with IDOCScript. It is another language to work with. Why not use something more mainstream? Behind the scenes, all the code becomes Java, so why all the cloak and dagger?

In the end, I am getting paid to write lines of code. And with that said, I will write in any language when I am getting paid. Another day, another language.