I especially hear it from those advocates of "business" notebooks manufactured by IBM/Lenovo, HP, Dell (maybe) that "business users do not need quality screens". They stick in the worst possible LCDs out there (even if with a high resolution) and dare to sell that crap. You can't even distinguish hue variations like light-yellow vs. ligh...
I work for a software development company and we have around 100 people working on a product, 1/3 of these people are QA. Lately management wants to have a better way to rate individual programmers performance so the suggestion was to use bug reports as a measurement. The more bug reports on a developer the worse he is. This seems ill-ad...
At my workplace, it has been suggested that each developer is given the opportunity to indicate to his peers that he is busy and cannot be disturbed. This would be done in order to ensure that you don't get disturbed, when you are "in the zone". Do you think this is a good idea ? Do you have anything like that at your workplace ? I am...
Heyas So I'm trying to move away from using the mouse as much as I can (just a pet project). I know that in the terminal you can do c-k to cut a line and c-u to paste that line back into that same terminal, but I'm looking for something where I can copy a line in the terminal into gnomes clipboard so I can paste it into say a browser o...
What does your workplace* look like? How is it set up? Is it in a home attic (burning the midnight oil), or in your home basement (underground movement), or do you spend most of your time at the company diligently working? Cubicle? A private office maybe, or did they put you in the boiler room? How does your "precious one" look like (n...
Hello, I'm lost among the zillion versions of VMware. Which one should I choose? I just want to: create VM's take snapshots run it on top of a third party host OS (no ESX) get the least resource intensive for the host OS UPDATE: get it free if possible ("as in free beer") I first went for VMware server but isn't it a bit overkil...
Has anybody any experience in using Gupta (formerly Centura) Team Developer? If so, what do you think of it in terms of its capability to support the development of mature, scalable, maintainable applications? Thanks ...
I looked around the GNU emacs material and didn't find anything helpful. Does anyone know of a good tutorial for setting up emacs, to basically turn it into an IDE? I'm looking for interfacing with gcc/gdb/make, etc... ...
I know it may sound stupid but anyway. Maybe there is a trick? I just want that the local web server receives requests from my local machine but somehow sees a different IP address? Even one single that is different from the infamous 127.0.0.1 would of a great assistance. Are there any options available? ...
Hi, I have installed a xampp (apache + mysql + php) stack on a portable volume (truecrypt volume on a usb drive) that I use on different linux machines, for webapp development. This volume is formatted in ext3, so I run into permissions problems as I can't be the same user on each machine. For example I tried to check the git status of...
My main Windows development PC, running Vista Business, is getting a little long in the tooth and I'm considering replacement. Its a dual screen setup with 24" and 19" monitors. My laptop is a reasonably new Macbook and I've been using Parallels to mount a Virtual XP system on it for some time and have been pretty impressed. The new...
We're big fans of conducting all our development in virtual machines, mainly for the following reasons: Everyone has a common build which we ask to be kept "clean" of other installed "stuff" Easy of deployment - up and running in an hour or two, rather than a day or two if you need to install our dev stack onto a clean machine We've ...
is it better to develop ruby on rails in a) windows b) linux or c) mac. why ? edited : the reason why i am asking this is that i heard that developing ruby on rails in windows is not as stable/good compared when you used ruby on rails in mac. (not sure though if that is true or not). plus the fact that David Heinemeier Hansson (cre...
Casus: How to edit and advance with the same code, from several distanced locations and computers as easily as possible? I have this thought for some time now. I am regularly having problems when I have to work on one project from different computers, as I have not taken any measures or whatsoever to ease myself in this situation. Tha...
I'm thinking of a new laptop to replace my current machine. I notice a lot of machines have the P8xx and T9xxx Intel Core 2 Duo. The T9xxx have a premium but they have I believe 6 megs of cache compared to the 3 megs in the P8xx. Will this help me for compilation times or any other stat? Should I invest the premium in more RAM than the c...
I find myself wasting more and more time the last few years when I have to reinstall an OS and 20+ development tools and apps. I'm looking to do more work in virtual machines. Now that you are starting to see 32GB and 64GB thumb drives. I was wondering can you run a Virtual PC or VMWare image from a USB Thumb drive? Any issues with doin...
In our project we writes lots of application logs(sometimes they are very useful) in tmp folder. In this folder we have components' directories, such as: api email2sms scheduled_sending billing etc. Less than 10 folders, in summary. The problem: new component's folder arise with time - each of this folders has to be writeable. So i...
As a developer I had a slew of shortcuts and applications used daily. Visual Studio 6, 2003, 2005, 2008, SQL Client tools, WinMerge, Notepad++, Synergy, VMware (and lots and lots of VMs, multiple browsers, and on top of all that about 20 shortcuts to important directories, servers, test environments etc... The Vista start menu is a lif...
I heard Kevin Skoglund (lynda.com) say that it is good practice to get in the habit of restarting Webrick frequently during development. Although generally you do not need to restart Webrick to see your changes, he implied that there are particular times when this may be needed? Does anyone know what those circumstances might be? This ma...
Say I find a Windows developer with 10+ years of experience, great skills in C/C++ and excellent references as a versatile coder who gets things done. Can I hire him for development on the Linux platform and expect him to be efficient in production within a couple of weeks? Or is the threshold too high when speaking in terms of developme...