development-environment

What are Sharepoint(MOSS 2007) Developement/Deployment best practices.

We are deploying sharepoint MOSS 2007 at our work. I'm trying to come up with a sharepoint development and deployment methodology. We have Dev/QA/Prod environments and I need a way, preferably automated to deploy changes from Dev to QA and from there to prod. We are creating site collections web parts etc. Some of it is done directly wi...

Open Source Development

I am a Fedora12(GNOME) user. I recently started development in Linux. Most of the Linux system applications/utilities are written in c/c++. The problem i am facing is that how to integrate a downloaded source code with some IDE(e.g, Anjuta etc). In simple words i want to know that, what is the best way to start development on some exis...

Creating development and production environments?

Hi everyone, currently all my application that is released is always release in production. However I would like that changed and also have a development side (For testing). I've tried searching for steps on how to create a development server however I cannot seem to find a tutorial. In the past I've seen someone release their applicat...

What's a good way to set up a development environment on OS X for ruby, rails, and git?

I'm going to start development on a web app using ruby, rails, probably either postgres or mysql, and most likely apache. I'll be using a git repository with the master repo on another server. I've searched through stackoverflow and done some Googling... so here's what I have so far... What are your opinions on what's described on this...

Programming Environment that runs directly on the iPhone or iPad?

Is there a development environment that runs directly on an the iPhone OS? I will be without access to a computer/internet for some time, but will have the use of an iPad (WiFi, jailbroken). Do you know of any way to dabble with programming directly on the device. Since apple is commit to not let it happen, I assume I will have to fin...

How do I create a safe local development environment?

I'm currently doing web development with another developer on a centralized development server. In the past this has worked alright, as we have two separate projects we are working on and rarely conflict. Now, however, we are adding a third (possible) developer into the mix. This is clearly going to create problems with other developers ...

Super user powers in development environment?

Is it too much to ask for when I ask the IT department to give my development team an environment where we can use whatever software that we can download without having to have security check those tools? Of course, the software can be checked by security before deploying to Test, and the development environment can be on a VLAN that is...

How to Transition to Scrum

My team has grown fairly quickly from 1 to 5 over the last year or so and are very interested in changing our development style from Waterfall to a more iterative approach like Scrum. We work for a University and specialize in CRUD web apps for internal customers who are always changing requirements along the way. So, my question is...H...

How to handle javascript & css files across a site?

Hi everybody, I have had some thoughts recently on how to handle shared javascript and css files across a web application. In a current web application that I am working on, I got quite a large number of different javascripts and css files that are placed in an folder on the server. Some of the files are reused, while others are not. ...

Resources for setting up a Visual Studio/C++ development environment

I haven't done much "front-end" development in about 15 years since moving to database development. I'm planning to start work on a personal project using C++ and since I already have MSDN I'll probably end up doing it in Visual Studio 2010. I'm thinking about using Subversion as a version control system eventually. Of course, I'd like t...

Is the Windows dev environment worth the cost?

I recently made the move from Linux development to Windows development. And as much of a Linux enthusiast that I am, I have to say - C# is a beautiful language, Visual Studio is terrific, and now that I've bought myself a trackball my wrist has stopped hurting from using the mouse so much. But there's one thing I can't get past: the co...

Development enviroment for .NET

I'm about to create an development enviroment for a little developer company(3-4 developers + some testers). Our development platform is .NET and Oracle. My question is how to structure the whole enviroment.How many servers do I need ? Should be one server for developers and one for testers ? I'd like to have one build server (TeamCity)...

[android] Do I need a Android phone for creating android applications?

I started developing android applications. And am testing with the android emulator. Do I really need android phone before releasing it for public usage? ...

Setting up a (web) development environment

Hi, I would like to know how I can improve my development environment. At the moment: I'm using Netbeans as my IDE. My local Dev server runs on a RHEL5 VirtualMachine similar to my production server. My Netbeans project is editing the VM files via ssh (I have mounted the server as a local drive) But: It's slow Files can disapear (...

c# application will not run on any machine except box it was developed on

I am new to development. I followed step by step instructions from http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/flashmapinwpf.html to host google maps in a wpf application using c#. The program will compile and run in the IDE and also my windows environment. The same executable files will not run on any other machine I have tested it on. ...

Does Dreamweaver's Search and Replace with wildcard have a variable option?

Lets say I have a bunch of areas like: joe is punching jim joe is kicking jim joe is spitting on jim. and I wanted to find every case with joe is _ jim and completely change the order around. normally I would just do a wilcard search, and search and replace "joe is [^"]* jim". but what if i wanted to KEEP whatever the wildcard was an...

Setting up Unix for development dual boot with Vista and Windows Server 2008

Hi, I'm a PC guy and a Microsoft Platform Developer. I've got a new assignment from my client whiche has to be develop with open source technologies. Hhas already send me server information where I've to deploy. The hosting information he has given is CentOS environment with Ruby (with Rails) and Python support. I've chosen Ruby becaus...

The release of Xcode 4

I'm a paid up iPhone developer. I've really enjoyed the WWDC iTunesU videos and am eagerly awaiting Xcode 4. My question is simple. When do you think Xcode 4 beta will be released to non-WWDC attending developers? I've been scouring the 'net for days and can't find any decent suggestions at all. ...

Are you responsible for deploying your code to a live environment?

...or do you have to go through someone else (a person who manages the servers) to get your code deployed? I understand the policy of not letting everyone log onto a live production server but I would like the ability to have access to my code, database and files once they are live. How is it for everyone else? ...

Weblogic hot deployment during development (like WSSD/RAD)

All my previous projects were on websphere. I am right now in a team developing an application on weblogic. In Websphere development (WSSD/RAD) the server was more "integrated" with the IDE, so a build could automatically trigger an incremental deployment to the (development/local) server. Is such a setup possible in a weblogic envir...