I am looking to start fiddling around with Java development in my free time (professionally a .NET developer) and I am curious as to what the community feels is their preferred development environment. Items that could be listed: IDE Plugins Tools Utilities Source/Version Control Libraries Books Blogs Anything ...
I'm setting up a complete .NET development environment on my Macbook Pro. I'm using Visual Studio 08 team suite, SQL server 2008, MS Office and other tools (like FinalBuilder, RegexBuddy, Beyond Compare). How big should my windows 7 (beta currently) partition be? Will 100GB be enough? NOTE: I wasn't sure if this was programming relate...
I am starting to specify what my optimal personal development environment will look like and I need some ideas. Specifically, I would like to hear your preference of: Hardware: specs, number of machines, VMs, uses (servers/desktops), monitors Software: IDEs, tools Networking: setup, architecture Misc: furniture, accessories, etc. Wh...
I was wondering how many people here use Windows Server 2008 (or w2k3) as their development machine. If you do, what are the pros/cons that you've found? If you don't, do you see any advantages to doing so? I've read many anecdotes online stating that it was a more stable development environment than Vista SP1, and some setup tips her...
I have the following VM with CentOS 5 running on vista 64. I have my DNS set in my resolv.conf (servers resolve on my windows machine and I have tried various servers). I can ping the DNS but it wont resolve any names for me. I have put some names in my vhost and those domain work fine. Is anyone else having this issue? Is DNS busted...
For a current course I am taking, we are using a remote computer to run our code (It's a four node cluster, programming with MPI and C++). I am coding locally on my MacBook and I'm looking for a good way to keep my local code up to date on the cluster. The way I was doing it was to have a terminal open for running SCP to copy the d...
[resolved] I tweaked the preferences in komodo edit and ended up with: don't auto indent don't allow file contents to override tab settings prefer tab characters over spaces 4 spaces per indent 4 width of each tab char I also set komodo to show whitespace and tabs, which eneded up revealing the screwed up sections. yeah - it's a ...
I've been a Visual Studio user since 1997, and used VB 3.0 before that. My whole professional life has been spent inside the Microsoft development environments. Now I would like to branch out into Ruby on Rails to try something different, and it doesn't have the kind of vendor support that C# does (for very obvious reasons). For someon...
Since I'm new to the world of professional web/HTML and ASP design, I'm curious of what others in the field use when building pages from nothing. I'm not one to use MS Word to design my page or form, and then just stick it on the net. My background in UI design is really in Win32, then MFC, WTL, and now some Winforms... But, I'm findi...
I've been thinking recently about what I do daily at work. We're working with ASP.NET and WebForms. The most of the activities include using already implemented functionality of the wrapper (or framework). I almost never come across technology things, meaning ASP.NET techniques, HTML/CSS etc. The framework was designed long before I came...
I have a lot of session state when programming - shell windows, ides, virtual machines, web browsers. This is all lost when the session ends i.e. when logging out or rebooting. Is there a way to save the desktop state on MS Windows XP and have it restored later? Ideally the solution would allow multiple sessions to be saved and allow ...
Recently I am developing using 'C in Linux platforms, the tools like gcc are fast. But I wish it would be great to have an IDE like the VC++ IDE for windows. ...
By 'challenging development environment' I don't mean you're on a small boat that's rocking up and down and someone is holding a gun to your head. I mean, are the tools at your disposal making the problem difficult? Development is typically a cycle of code, run, observe the result, repeat. In some environments this is a very quick and p...
Should developers have administrator permissions on their PC or is giving them power user access sufficient? Some comments: If they want to try out some new application that would need installing, then they could try it on a virtual machine and later get the network administrator to install it for them. Do you think that would work? ...
Hi! A great feature - I think - is, when languages, running in a virtualized way like C# and Java show errors during you're working on the source. Most often IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans or VisualStudio have the feature to specify errors immediately. Is there anything like this for C/C++? Just for coding... I'm currently searching for...
The joys of multimonitor programming are countless, I think there are about 5 blog posts on Coding Horror on the topic alone! I often code in Windows on my main machine, and have my Mac laptop set up to the side. I use the Mac both to compile Mac builds but also as my "reference web browser". There's no KVM or anything. However a casua...
I would like to know opinions about the fastest combination of language, libraries and tools that allow for fast prototyping of application in the 3 most important OS (Win, Mac, Linux). In the past, I've used processing for visual sketches, but I would like to know about other options, since this is oriented to visual artists, not progr...
There are plenty of logging/trace systems for letting your program output data or strings or state as it runs. Most of these let you print arbitrary strings which you can view live or after your program runs. I noticed an ad here on SO for Smartinspect which seems to take this to a higher level, giving stack traces for each log, fancier...
In the Open File Dialog and Open Project Dialog there is a short cut panel on the right. Is there any way to add our own short cuts here? Office has a very similar dialog that allows you to do this - but Visual Studio doesn't seem to allow this. ...
I used to develop Java on the mac and it worked out well, combo of just using the terminal and IntelliJ. What are good tools that run on the mac for doing Ruby development ...