Possible Duplicate: Audio while programming I know it's not an actual code how-to question...I also know it varies from coder to coder, but... It would be useful for me to see what other people have to say about it. So what have you all found to be the best for you? Hard Rock? Classical? Techno? Does it just depend on your mo...
Possible Duplicate: Which IDE for Scala 2.8? I'm learning Scala by reading 'Programming in Scala' book by Odersky et al. What programming environment people use for scala? I've used TextMate and emacs, and trying to use eclipse for Java. ...
Hi, I currently have a portable XAMPP server on a USB flash drive so I can develop on either my desktop or my laptop. However, recently I bought a mac laptop, but I'm still using Windows on the desktop. Now I can't use the USB flash drive trick to code anywhere. What method would you suggest to have two local development environments ...
Hi, I am currently trying to set up a development environment for learning Ruby. The environment will primarily be for getting to grips with the language, but I will most probably move on to development with Rails after long. With web development a target, I would like to hear about preferred web servers and databases. I plan on settin...
I am trying Zend Studio before I buy it. I have noticed that a line like this: <input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $this->album ['id']; ?>" /> will be changed to this: <input type="hidden" name="id" value="album ['id']; ?>" /> during the Format operation. Is there anyway to prevent this? It is very messy in my opinio...
I need a local copy of our production database, and I need to refresh it every few days so testing and development is not working with terribly stale data. A few days old is just fine. Here is the pseudo plan: Write a script on the Production server that mysqldump's + gzip the database. Add a cron process to run the script every othe...
If a project depends on other libraries whose locations are non-standard, where should the locations be stored? My current solution is to have something like this at the top of the Ant build.xml script: <!-- change these properties to point to the correct library locations on your system --> <property name="lib.foo" location="${user.hom...
Part of my webapp involves uploading image files. On the production server, the files will need to be written to /somepath_on_production_server/images. For local development, I want to write the files to /some_different_path/images. What's the best way to handle these configuration differences? One important requirement is this: I don'...
This question is for experienced Unix/Linux developers. If you have found that you like Mac OS X better than *nix as a development platform, why is that? I know that hardware configuration is more convenient and graphics are generally more polished, but I'm not referring to those things. I'm asking specifically about functionality rela...
Most offices today use Microsoft Office for documentation and presentation. Lots of programmers prefer to work and develop under Linux. When your shop uses both, how do you do your development in Linux and documentation in Windows and stay productive? ...
I have VS2010 and Expression studio 4 on my machine. I have done a fair amount of programming on Silverlight. What do I need to get started with development on Windows phone 7. I googled and found out that I need to install VS2010 express for WP7 beta. Can't I just use my existing VS2010 installation with some additional templates and an...
After starting out with Python on Ubuntu Linux, I've now for a good while been doing most of my sustained work on the Mac, currently OS X 10.6. Unfortunately I've neglected to give proper attention to how Python is installed there and ended up with: Python 2.6.1 (Mac default version?) in /usr/bin (also, 2.5.4, which I'm not sure how it...
For personal projects I cannot use my work-licence of Visual Studio Professional at home. Visual Studio Express just seem less appealing than the professional edition, what are my alternatives except notepad? ...
Hi all Just wondering if anybody knows of an environment for running, testing, debugging xml and xsl locally. Kind of like the way XAMPP can be used for web design. Any help is appreciated Thanks ...
On my localhost if I'm working on a project in http://localhost/project_name/ whenever I get an error or a warning it contains a link to the function but the link points to the wrong place, e.g. it points to http://localhost/project_name/function.rename I have the many-HTML manual in http://localhost/php_manual/ is there a setting by wh...
Greetings, I would like to know what are the specifications (Hardware/Software) that a developer laptop should have if it is running the following programs and softwares: MS Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 Visual studio 2008 Oracle(R) Enterprise Manager version 9.2.0.1.0 ArcGIS 9.1.2 with the Developer Kit MS Office 2007 Than...
Hi, I am a new developer for Umbraco. I am having problem setting up my Visual Studio 2010 as a developer platform for umbraco 4.5.x with TFS and between remote teams. My current setup is to open the whole umbraco site in Visual studio and tideup with TFS. Obeviusly this means that some of the files and folders gets locked up when comm...
Hi, I have recently started working on a legacy application that has most of its business logic in stored procedures spread over two or three SQL Server databases. Currently all code is also edited in the live environment. As I am new to the codebase, I don't really want to make any changes in the live environment and therefore I'm try...
I use the stable version of Google Chrome as my default browser on my system. I now need to work on a project requiring the development version of Chrome, yet I do not wish to replace my system install of Chrome. Does there exist a standalone package of Chome which can be unpacked into a folder and executed entirely from there? Ie, it...
Other than the possible lag issues, has anyone tried this? What are the pros or cons associated with this? ...