development-environment

Change Ruby Environment in Hudson

I'm trying to point the Hudson app at the test environment in my MySQL database with Rails. Do I need to change the environment variable RUBY_ENV? If so, where do I implement this? ...

PHP development environment

I normally work on Python projects and we have a good tool called virtualenv for setting up project environments. Does something similar exist for PHP? I have not been able to find one. ...

Git: application configuration and different environments

We use git for most of the web applications we build in our shop, and though the applications themselves use a variety of technologies (PHP, Rails, etc), we generally have a staging and production server for each site. Typically, these servers have different sets of database credentials as well as different environment-based configurati...

Looking for advise regarding provisioning development environment on the Cloud

Hello. I'd like to prepare a development environment on the cloud. My target platform is Microsoft .Net Based on theory and some basic experiments, I am tilting in favour of Amazon AWS infrastructure. If I purchase a High-Memory On-Demand Instance, I'll be able to deploy 8-20 instances of developer VMs within and also deploy VMs for dat...

Eclipse Plugin only working on my machine

I wrote a Eclipse plugin for adding hungry-deletion, and it appears to work on my machine. However, I had a few friends try it, and it doesn't seem to load at all on their machines. The installation process is just to copy the resulting .jar to the plugins/ subdirectory of eclipse. I've tried re-installing eclipse on my machine and in...

Single developer-to-do-all SDLC activities -- How should I proceed further?

Working at client (non-IT) place as a .net programmer (alone) and asked to develope a windows application. No project manager, no SRS, no technical people to lead..., etc. Directly getting requirement from customer on-their-need basis. It keep changes and has lot of ambguity. As the client is not understaning need of freezing requiremen...

Statistical Proof of Music's Effect on a Developer

A very simple question: Does anybody know of any good references that scientifically prove the effects that listening to various types of music while coding might have on a developer? Workplaces typically provide some sort of reference library to help their developers be more productive. Would it also be conducive to productivity if so...

Best VM setup for cross platform & multiple machine development

Hi all. I'm looking to clean up my development environments into discreet virtual machines, that I can use against multiple hosts. An ideal situation would be the ability to store the virtual machines on a central server, with both local streaming and remote access. For instance if I am working on my shoddy old laptop, I would only want ...

Linux programming - getting started, how?

I've taken the plunge and installed Linux (Linux Mint 9 if that's important) on one of the boxes - and I'd like to start some small-time programming... but where to start. My background: Mostly LOB-applications in C#/WPF Some XAL-basic A wee bit of VB/VBA and SilverLight I would like to turn to a new programming language - but still...

Eclipse error when Adding Tomcat as server runtime environment

When I try to add Tomcat as a server runtime environment in eclipse, I get the following error "No new server runtime environments were found" The way I am trying to add Tomcat is as follows: Click "Window"-> "preferences" Expand "Server->Runtime Environments" Click Search In the directroy browser dialog, navigate to and select my Tomcat...

How do I open gnome-terminal with new enviroment variables?

I have a file that sets enviroment variables(JAVA_HOME, ANT_HOME...) I use for doing java programming related tasks. WHen I want to setup the new environment I type "source devenv" (devenv being the file that contains the new environment setup). I'm trying to create a shortcut that opens the gnome-terminal and automatically sets those va...

Recommended setup to develop games (2D/3D) on a Mac?

What tools, SDKs, applications etc are recommended to develop 2D/3D games on a Mac (and which will target Mac)? ...

How to develop against a web-based product with built-in server (not ASP.NET project)?

Hi, We have an application at work which is web-based and comes with a bundled web server (Apache tomcat), and is for network monitoring/patch management. It allows for personalisation, all sorts of rules, custom UI design using proprietary components and definition language, and even custom code to fire on events (based on Java). I am...

Solutions for automated deployment in developer environments?

I am setting up an automated deployment environment for a number of decoupled services that are in active development. While I am comfortable with the automated deployment/configuration management aspect, I am looking for strategies on how best to structure the deployment environment to make things a bit easier for developers. Some thi...

windows development platform installation

We spend large amounts of time setting up each new development machine we configure for developers - usually around 6 hours or so. We were thinking of something along the lines of Ghost, but each installation is machine-specific, so I guess that won't work. Is there any program or method by which we can bundle the entire thing: Windows...

Minimum requirements for a development environment

I have been tasked to provide an overview of requirements for the setup of a development environment for a relativity new business unit within a financial services institution. I had initially put together some aspects that focussed on doing some Requirements analysis and focussed on Infrastructure, Software and Processes and Procedure...

How to setup Jetty with Eclipse without plugin?

I would like to start with Java web development. First I would like to setup a good development environment using an Jetty server in Eclipse, which would allow for short development cycles. But I am struggling to set it up. There are other questions about it, but they are either old or incomplete for me. I have seen suggestions for usi...

How can I use Visual Studio 2010 for C development?

I would like to do some C development in Windows environment using Visual Studio 2010. There are a few similar questions on this topic, but they are all based on that you are creating a Win32 console application, and a C++ project. How can I do C development using only .c and .h files as I do in Unix? without creating a C++ projects con...

Error : Not all products are available in the requested quantity !! what does this mean?

Hello , i get this error when trying to submit the order in the shopping cart : Not all products are available in the requested quantity I have set the quantity to 1000 and made it in stock ... I have just installed magento and some other extensions , , so what i did wrong ,, ...

PHP: What do you use to write it?

Possible Duplicate: What is the best IDE for PHP ? Hello again everybody, I finish my work placement next week and have over a month off before I start my studies again. Being the super cool party animal that I am I have decided to use the time getting a firmer grip on PHP. I recently bought the highly recommended book 'PHP ...