For years I have been trying to find an organizational scheme which works for me. I've tried digital calendars (Google Calendar, My WebCal at work, Chandler, Sunbird) to no avail as of yet. I've played around with Remember the Milk (which is a pretty cool app in and of itself...) but I never quite got in the groove of actually using ...
What fonts do you use for programming, and for what language/IDE? I use Consolas for all my Visual Studio work, any other recommendations? ...
Is there a good XML / XSD editor out there? I've been using the editor in Visual Studio 2005 a little but find it lacking in features. Which editors do you use? ...
Does anyone have battle stories to share trying to use Visual Studio to develop applications for Unix? And I'm not talking using .NET with a Mono or Wine virtual platform running beneath. Our company has about 20 developers all running Windows XP/Vista and developing primarily for Linux & Solaris. Until recently we all logged into a m...
I am attempting to choose a Linux, Unix, and/or BSD distribution for development purposes. I want to be able to do things like write shell scripts, develop C, C++, Java, Ruby, Python, etc. apps in a *nix environment, and see things from a different perspective. I'm planning on using a Virtual Machine to do all of this. My first stop was ...
My current employer uses a 3rd party hosted CRM provider and we have a fairly sophisticated integration tier between the two systems. Amongst the capabilities of the CRM provider is for developers to author business logic in a Java like language and on events such as the user clicking a button or submitting a new account into the syst...
Howdy, We are getting new dev machines and moving up to Vista 64 Ultimate to take advantage of our 8gb ram. Our manager wants us to do all dev in 32bit virtual machines to make sure there will be no problems with our code moving into production. Is there any way to guarantee the resultant programs will work on 32bit os's? I don't m...
I am a .net developer (currently using Visual Studio 2008). I am looking to buy a new computer which I don't want to change for the next 3 years. Among the choices I have, I am thinking whether a dual core 3 GHz machine will be better, or will a 2.4 GHz quad core machine be better? Please help. Update: This is what I got finally: Inte...
Currently my workflow with Emacs when I am coding in C or C++ involves three windows. The largest on the right contains the file I am working with. The left is split into two, the bottom being a shell which I use to type in compile or make commands, and the top is often some sort of documentation or README file that I want to consult w...
The SQL Server Express 2008 setup allow you to assign different user account for each service. For a development environment, would you use a domain user, local user, NT Authority\NETWORK SERCVICE, NT Authority\Local System or some other account and why? ...
How do you set up your .NET development tree? I use a structure like this: -projectname --config (where I put the configuration files) --doc (where I put all the document concerning the project: e-mails, documentation) --tools (all the tools I use: Nunit, Moq) --lib (all the libraries used by the solution: ninject or autofac) --s...
I know the standard answer is No. However hear out the reasons for wanting it, and then we'll go for whether it is possible to achieve the same effect as ReadyBoost via either enabling (and installing) ReadyBoost or using third party software. Reasons for using Widows Server 2008 as a development environment on a laptop: 64-Bit, so yo...
What is the best (or as good as possible) general SVN ignore pattern to use? There are a number of different IDE, editor, compiler, plug-in, platform, etc. specific files and some file types that "overlap" (i.e. desirable for some types projects and not for others). There are however, a large number of file types that you just never ...
If one were to use TiddlyWiki as a personal database for notes and code snippets, how would you go about keeping it in sync between multiple machines. Would a svn/cvs etc work. How would you handle merges? ...
I know we've got all of these nice IDEs out there today. With the way that it intelligently finishes your coding for you or checks syntax as you type - it's cool. But.... for those of us who really love to bang out code in a simple editor , is it still possible to do this AND, if so, is anyone? I am finally migrating over to VS.NET...
How many of you prefer full screen for your applications? What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing this? Edit: I run all my applications full screen, that includes shell, browser, app etc. In this way, I feel less distraction and concentrate on what I am doing. ...
I've been programming in C,C++,C# and a few other languages for many years, mainly for Windows and Linux but also embedded platforms. Recently started to do some iPhone programming as a side project so I'm using Apple platforms for the first time since my Apple II days. I'm wondering what other developers that are coming to Mac OSX, Xcod...
The codebase I work on is huge, and grepping it takes about 20 minutes. I'm looking for a good web-based source code search engine.. something like an intranet version of koders.com. The only thing I've found is Krugle Enterprise Edition, which doesn't post its prices... and if you have to ask, you can't afford it. I'd really prefer a...
Has anyone out there got a good set of instructions for building/compiling Ruby from source of windows XP ? ...
I would like to use my laptop as a web development (PHP, Python, etc.) machine, but I'm hesitant to do this unless I can ensure that it can not be accessed by the outside world. I'm guessing that something more than a firewall is necessary, such as configurations to the Apache configuration files, but I'm not sure what else I would need...