How I learned to love developing on my locked-down, government-issued PC

Presenters: charles.novick

I have a great job working on the public-facing Drupal site of an important government agency. It's where you might go to find a prison inmate, learn if a sex offender lives in your area or jump-start your career as an Attorney. Shortly after coming on board I was presented with a work laptop that was locked down tighter than the Teflon Don.

To make matters worse, my new laptop ran Windows 10. 

After having used MacOS exclusively for over 25 years, the only advantage this machine offered was the fact that I could enter "vagrant up" on the command line and run Ubuntu1604.

That's when it hit me. Google Chrome, Babun, Virtual Box, Vagrant  and Git were pre-installed on the Windows side. With a bit of persistence I was able to add Ubuntu Desktop, NetBeans, Gimp, MySQL Workbench and Double Commander to the Linux machine.

Pretty soon I was developing in GUI heaven. Let me show you the way.

People with relevant development experience, especially those trying to work in a Windows environment and are able to use BLT or DrupalVM will benefit most from this session.

Audience
Experience Level
Intermediate
Schedule Info
Conference Year
2018
Status
Proposed
Session Track
Coding and Development