Working from Home
Tools and Technologies for Improving Your Programming Environment

Background

This discussion will focus on technologies and techniques that can be used to improve the quality of working from home. Although, this talk is primarily geared towards working from home in a Windows environment many of these concepts are general and apply to other operating systems.

Topics include:

  • Connecting and transferring files to/from UMBC
  • Use XEmacs graphically from home
  • Develop your projects under MS Windows
  • Access remote files in your UMBC GL account from home as if they were local
  • Linux options - options for working in Linux without abandoning MS Windows
  • Q & A

Slides

Slides from this talk are now available:

Installation & Usage Instructions