At Parallels, we love sharing our customers’ success stories! Recently, Tim Goldstein, a leading business intelligence analyst, database architect, and senior developer specializing in the server tool set, implemented a more agile development process with Goldstein’s new process has been a great success and proven Parallels Desktop to be a developer’s “Swiss Army Knife” of productivity!

Below are a few quotes from Goldstein himself regarding how Parallels Desktop has helped him stay ahead of the competitive landscape in his personal business: “Parallels allows me to run a full development environment on Windows, including SQL Server, Analysis Services Server, Visual Studio, and SQL Management console simultaneously with El Capitan. I am running this on an 11-inch MacBook Air with 8 GB of RAM and a two-core i7 processor.” Not only is the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio a crucial weapon in a developer’s tool kit but Goldstein leverages success by additionally using,,.

See how easy it is to create and run an app with the new Visual Studio for Mac and UI for Xamarin. First, I should say that, as a guy acquainted with both Visual Studio (for Windows) and Xamarin, I found the fact that Visual Studio for Mac actually resembles Xamarin Studio very appealing. In Visual Studio Code tasks are defined for a workspace and Visual Studio Code comes pre-installed with a list of common task runners. In the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P (Win, Linux), ⇧⌘P (Mac)) you can type tasks and look at all the various task related commands.

Above: “ Windows 10 running Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Management Studio (SSMS), SQL Data Tools (a.k.a. Visual Studio) with an SSIS package, and working on an infographic for my speaking/training topic of “Engaging Technical Workers, Getting Business and Technical Staff Communicating” in CorelDRAW.” Goldstein has additionally leveraged Parallels Desktop to save money for his business. He’s achieved this by not having to own multiple computers to complete his work as a senior developer. Thanks to his love of technology and the people who have helped him have such a great IT career, Goldstein, a Certified High Performance Coach, is simultaneously speaking, training, and mentoring executives on how to understand the mind of the technical worker. He can help you reach your next level just like Parallels Desktop has helped him reach his!

In his own words: “For my personal business in training executives to understand their technical workforce and training geeks to better handle the soft side of interviews, I work entirely on a Mac. Parallels has been a wonderful solution and a much easier company culture to deal with than competitors.” Connect with Tim Goldstein via LinkedIn, or check out his personal website. Need Microsoft Windows operating system? Buy Below: Want to make your life easier with Parallels Desktop? Vmware unlocker for os x 1.3.0 download. Try it for free for 14 days.