Rebuilding my Developer Platform – For the Last Time!

I have finished enough of a ground-up rebuild of a developer machine to take stock. The rebuild process went something like this:

Step 1 – Start long running installation

Step 2 – Wait for installation to complete

Step 3 – Go back to Step 1. Rinse and repeat …

Hard Learnt Lessons

• Building a Windows based developer workstation takes more TIME than you imagine

• Long periods of WAITING for installations to complete is WASTEFUL

• Rebuilding workstation machines is REPETITIVE

One more point on the the manual build process. I will never have to do it again!

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