Building a Basic Render Farm

Parallel computing is really neat. Obviously, it's important in science where you can break computational tasks into smaller parts and distribute the work among many discrete systems. But for rendering, it's incredibly important. Take Pixar, for example. They have a massive rendering farm and yet it sometimes takes them more than a day to render a single frame because of the complexity of the scene (hundreds of lights, shadows, etc.) This project clearly won't reach those levels, it's just to show that it can be done fairly easily to tween images across another using ImageMagick on multiple computers.

Web Development on Windows Made Easier With Virtual Box

Let's face it. Windows just isn't great for development. You can argue against this point, but in general it just doesn't as well as it may with Linux operating systems. Even Mac OS X is somewhat better. But forget that. I don't know if there's a purpose to this tutorial, but I know that it could help somebody.

Working in a VM is tedious at times. The purpose of this is to set up a development environment where you can work in Windows, save to your host hard drive, but use a Linux based server to test it in real time. How, you ask? We're going to tweak a Linux VM to do just this.