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A Proud Moment: VMware Workstation 8

18 Comments Posted by on September 14, 2011

Today is kind of a career highlight for me. A moment I’m especially proud of. We just released VMware Workstation 8. Code-named “Nitrogen,” this release has been in the planning stages since around the time I joined VMware 7 years ago. It has been in active development for the past 3 years. Easily the longest [...]

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Goodbye, my friend

13 Comments Posted by on November 4, 2009

I lost a good friend Sunday. Vinay Venkatesh, also known as djgraphite, was a friend and co-worker at VMware. We had known each other for many years, since before he joined VMware, from the #adium and #growl channels on irc.freenode.net back when I worked on libgaim and he worked on Growl. Vinay was always helpful [...]

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Fixing broken key codes in VMware on Ubuntu 8.10

2 Comments Posted by on December 23, 2008

I recently upgraded a system to both Ubuntu 8.10 and VMware Workstation 6.5, and while using it, I realized a number of keys were broken. The down arrow invoked the Windows Start Menu, for instance. Pressing Alt caused the key to be stuck. I knew this stuff worked in 8.04, but it certainly wasn’t in [...]

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Designing Unity: The Start Menu

4 Comments Posted by on September 29, 2008

Early on when we began to develop Unity for Workstation, we started to look at ways to give users access to the guest’s start menu. This seemed like an easy thing to solve at first. A month later we realized otherwise. We debated for some time and discussed the pros and cons of many approaches [...]

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VMware Workstation 6.5 released!

17 Comments Posted by on September 29, 2008

I wanted to come up with some witty introduction here, but after a year of hard work on Workstation 6.5, I’m just too tired to come up with anything. Workstation 6.5 is the latest release yet of our Workstation product, and continues in the fine tradition of being an awesome program. It’s also the first [...]

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Workstation 6.5 Beta 1 – Now with 100% more Unity!

23 Comments Posted by on April 2, 2008

I talked a little while ago about working outside the box with Unity. At that time I gave a sneak peak into what I’ve been working here at VMware the past few months. Well, now everyone can see. We just announced VMware Workstation 6.5 beta 1, the first public beta for Workstation 6.5. Among many [...]

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Botching the Trivial

6 Comments Posted by on March 28, 2008

As a developer, I’m used to screwing things up. It comes with the job, and that’s why we have beta testers, QA, and code reviewers. You get used to it, and usually it ends up not being too big a deal. What’s really embarrassing is when the screwup is literally staring you in the face [...]

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Working outside the box with Unity

25 Comments Posted by on December 16, 2007

A Brief History of Boxes In the days of old, working on your computer meant working inside a limited contained box. You could run programs but only one at a time, because running two at the same time would require two computers. This was the status quo for years. It’s just how computers worked. Then [...]

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So, what do you do at VMware?

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 22, 2007

Oh, UI stuff…

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Why’s there a little person in my button?

18 Comments Posted by on June 25, 2007

I was walking around the new VMware Promontory campus today and found this button. I’m tempted to press it, but I’m not sure what it will do. Send little stick figures to attack me? Stick me in a little house? Any ideas? Update: My apologies to anyone who couldn’t comment. My cache plugin cached the [...]

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