In your development environment, do you install a local SQL express or a dedicated SQL server? What are the pro/con's of these two options? From my own experience so far: Local installation slows down the own development workstation due to resource consumption Local installation is easier to debug/manage Dedicated installation eases c...
Hi, Does anyone (out of choice or forced) develop on a computer that they have to remote desktop into? How has your experiences been with it? I can see the advantages as you can basically code from anyplace in the world so long as you have a fast enough connection. Duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/424869/reasons-to-us...
This is related somewhat to this question about a better shell terminal/gui-interface for cmd.exe In my quest to find a better shell terminal, the only useful thing I came across was Console2, other alternatives weren't free and generally didn't offer much more than Console2 to make them worth their price. I can't help but wonder, "how...
From a Windows command line, I'd like to be able to publish to an RSS feed. I visualize something like this: rsspub @builds "Build completed without errors." Then, someone could go to my computer: http://xp64-Matt:9090/builds/rss.xml And there'd be a new entry with the date and time and the simple text "Build completed without erro...
Looking to build a proposal to revamp a software environment (tools, infrastructure, virtualization, SDLC, ...) and was looking for suggestions on places to start. Mostly looking for approaches to version code, automate builds, promote to test, build virtual test environments, assign units of work, tools to be used etc. I'm in the br...
I used to be a java developer and we used tools like ant or maven to manage our development/testing/UAT environments in a standardized way. This allowed us to handle library dependencies, setting OS variables, compiling, deploying, running unit tests, and all the required tasks. Also, the scripts generated guaranteed that all the environ...
Hi. I have huge Rails app on development right now, which run VERY slow on -e development. I use Mongrel as web server. Is there any way to speed up a little bit everything? Because i have to wait 3-10 sec. to reload a page. Thanks. ...
I am a single developer working on a project for my company. I use subversion and Trac (for bug-tracking and communication with management types). I have a staging server and a production server. Today I checked in some code and discovered that my FSFS-based svn (v1.4) repository is irreparably corrupt. While this is quite a bummer it ha...
I have inherited a broad, ill-designed web portfolio at my job. Most pages are written in Perl as most of the data ingested, processed, and displayed on the site comes in the form of flat-files which then have to be meticulously regexed and databased in our MySQL and Oracle databases. As the first IT-trained manager of this environme...
I consider myself fairly versatile when it comes to O/S selection. I have used DOS/Windows PC's all my life, switched my main laptop to Mac two years ago, and have used numerous flavors of Unix/Linux/BSD while studying for my Comp.Sci. degree. However, as I'm trying to improve my development environment, I'm starting to wonder if I'd be...
Hi! Recently I've been more concerned about the way I sit while I code, I don't think I have any kind of injury yet but one of my coworkers had to take a couple of days off because of his column and I began to worry about this. So, how do you sit? how do you place your hands? Do you recommend any keyboard in special? any chair? I have b...
Hi, i need to setup a development environment for writing Share Point Web Parts. What do I exactly need? My development machine is a Windows XP Prof. with Visual Studio 2008 Prof. If found Windows Share Point Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK) and Windows Share Point Services 3.0: Tools Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Versio...
I'm pretty new to developing with SilverStripe. At the moment I'm using Firefox / Kate for development on the new platform. I was wondering what other people use? Has anyone used Eclipse with any success? Are there any other IDEs / environments / approaches that work well with SilverStripe? ...
I was curious how often other software developers reevaluated their development environments and tools. I used to work at a large corporation with rigid toolsets that everyone hated, but could do nothing about. So nobody ever really updated their development environments because we couldn't in that environment. Now that I'm in my own ...
Hi, Are there any hosting companies that specialize in hosting a remote development environment? I am looking to have vs.net, sqlserver, subversion (and install my other development tools) so I can access my environment remotely from anywhere. ...
I was contemplating switching to Linux for C++ development, coming from a Windows environment. Is this a bad idea? My workplace uses Windows and Visual Studio for our projects (some C# and java too, but right now I'm only developing in C++). If they decide to put me on a C# project, would development still possible (mono?)? What are the...
I'm curious to see how popular the alternatives to C are in the embedded developer world e.g. Ada... I've only ever used C (with a little bit of assembler), but then my targets have very limited resources. Is there a move else where in this space to something else? What is winning the ware in set top boxes? If !C what was the underlyin...
Coming from a Microsoft development backgroup I am a bit confused as to what development languages/environments are available on an Mac. Are there any C# like languages to develop with on the Mac other than Java that I should also consider? What do MS to OSX converts prefer and why? I am after a business level programming strategy and no...
To mitigate some of the headache of working with XML I've been experimenting with PXSL, an abbreviated syntax for any XML document with advanced macro capabilities. However, since it's so new, I haven't been able to find any text editors that know how to parse it for syntax highlighting. Do you know of any editors or plug-ins that would...
Everyone once in a while, I'm in a coffee shop without a network connection. I like having all the code and tools local on my laptop for these occasions. I checkout the code locally, run mysql locally, and pull down all the API documentation. What are some tools and tricks you use when you have no network? ...