development-environment

Is there any free multi purpose development server?

There are so many tools out there. You can do so much things around developing that it is a full time job on its own. So why not integrating features / tools to an powerful server application. Is there a server which integrates (some of) these features: static code analysis automated builds (e.g. through maven) continuious integreatio...

Does it make sense to put all development works in Cloud?

Is it possible having virtual machines in the cloud, install visual studio there, and making developers using the 'cloud' to do day-to-day programming work? Is the cost going to be too high? Is the speed going to be too slow? Where can I find statistics or numbers to convince people? ...

What tools do you use to support XCode?

As a newbie XCode developer I would like to know what tools you use to support the XCode development experience (e.g. for iPhone development). For example, DOxygen for code documentation generation. I'm also keen to know what you do to make all these different tools work in a cohesive fashion. ...

Properties in Mac OS X developer documentation

Hi, Up to now I have programmed for iPhone only, but now there is need to do some work on Mac OS X as well. I noticed there are no Properties specified in documentation's class reference. Of course, you can find them somehow by investigating set methods and mother classes but this makes work quite slow and painful. Is there any refere...

How to assign hotkey to certain command in Visual Studio?

Hi, I would like to assign hotkeys to certain TFS client commands in visual studio. For instance, hotkey1 for checkin, hotkey2 for undo checkout. Please advice. ...

Making php development more robust

Hi all, I've spent some time now developing a web application in php. It has mostly been just for the fun of learning as a side project, but the app now has a few users which I don't want to upset by breaking things as I develop. At the moment, I have a very rudimentary method for managing the development - I use a text editor (ultra...

Building takes long time. How fight with that?

Speaking about compiled languages (c# in my case) I think that problem would always remain, no matter how performant your develop machine is. Build time could be more or less depending on concrete environment, but often it's enough to make your attention wanna move from your task to something else like stackoverflow, youtube, twitter etc...

Where should I store third-party libraries for inclusion in IntelliJ IDEA projects?

This is not about how to add libraries to my project or module dependencies; it's about where to store the .jar files that are referenced by the project/module settings. Should I have a lib folder in each project, containing the third-party libraries; or should I store them elsewhere on my hard drive? What scheme has worked for you? ...

strange cscope command line limitation

Cscope has eleven search input fields in interactive mode. But when I try to use it in line-oriented output mode and specify Find all symbol assignments: field using -10 switch it does not work. Any ideas? Thanks. ...

PHP - Best/Better/Optimal way to setup a Staging/Development server

I recently launched a service, meaning I can no longer work directly on the site, or I do so at a risk. I haven't been able to find any "standard" or "best" way to make a development server. The two things I have seen are a) Using a GIT or SVN to host the data (this doesn't quite solve my problem, I need to be able to develop somewhere...

PIP, Virtualenv & Git project setup and bootstrapping

Hey Guys, Assuming you have a project setup like this -WebApp |_ requirements.txt |_ bootstrap.py (virtualenv bootstrap script) |_ src |_ setup.py |_ develop-app |_ somecode.py |_ morecode.py The bootstap.py is created with virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv#creating-y...

Best practice development environments

I wonder if people would share what they feel is best practice for development environments. For example, Production, Testing and Development environments over multiple servers using multiple different programming languages - PHP for Web Interface with a Java API, with several developers. We are in quite a mess right now and we are tryi...

Easiest way to develop DNN modules ?

What is the easiest way to develop dot net nuke modules ? I tried VS starter kit, but you have to copy modules to the web server and run them there. Is it possible to setup the dev environment that you could just hit 'F5' and see/debug your module. ...

What issues to anticipate having different collations between development and production SQL Servers?

Subquestioning "Unable to update sys.columns - any other approach?" vaguely mentioning the problems on deployment to server with a different collation. The problem is that by default SQL Server collation is determined (during setup) by Windows Regional and Language Options --> Advanced --> "Select a language to match the language vers...

RAILS_ENV vs Rails.env? And Why the values are different?

I have already read this question : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2715035/rails-env-vs-rails-env I have added rails-dev-boost plugin (http://github.com/thedarkone/rails-dev-boost) and it internally uses Rails.env.development? to check and bypass its scripts if its not development. This is generally okay. But I also use Spork Testu...

Developing ASP.NET on Windows Server 2008 - Good Idea?

Hi, I was wondering if developing ASP.NET applications on Windows Server 2008 was a good idea, and if not why not. At work we have to use Windows Server 2008 as our desktop OS for developing (as it is closer to the production environment apparently). Using a server OS as your development environment doesn't seem right to me. Does anyo...