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Is npm not installing properly on Vagrant running on Windows?

Get a Mac! Kidding. (I actually think Microsoft has been more innovative lately.) Run the flag –no-bin-links when you install anything with npm and it will fix your issue. I have a dev Vagrant that I share with my team. I tend to mock things up when I’m playing around at home in the evenings.…
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No Thanks to Parallels… VMWare Rocks!
Being an Apple fanboy (at least for now) my main devices tend to be Apple. But as a Front-end Developer I still need to test my sites in Internet Explorer. I found that, truly, the best way is in Virtual Machines. Simulators just can’t capture the authentic buggy experience of true cross browser testing. To…
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How and Why I Wasted My Time Today — or — A New (FAIL) Way to Run Internet Explorer on Your Mac
I discovered on Hacker News the promise of running Internet Explorer on my mac. This is a big issue in the Front-end Development world since it is crucial that the sites you develop work properly on ALL of the required platforms. From time to time there are circumstances where you don’t need to support Internet…