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Vagrant's Users: What are its drawbacks?
I've been studying http://www.vagrantup.com/ for several days and I'd like a feedback by people using it in a professional context or for personal projects. I think I get what positive things can ...
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What is Development Environment? e.g. Vagrant
By luck i landed on this website http://www.vagrantup.com/
It is says, that software is for development environment.
My question is what exactly definition for development environment (in this case ...
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Setting up a development environment in the cloud? [closed]
I'm interested in transitioning my development environment onto the cloud.
I currently use VirtualBox with Vagrant to manage separate virtual machines for each individual project.
What would be the ...
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Setting up a simple Ruby\Rails environment
I am coming from a .NET background and beginning my journey into the Mac OSX\Ruby\Rails environment.
A lot of the resources I have found such as this one have between 5-10 steps for setting up a ...
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Best method to organize/manage dependencies in the VCS within a large solution
A simple scenario:
2 projects are in version control
The application
The test(s)
A significant number of checkins are made to the application daily.
CI builds and runs all of the automation ...
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How can I create a solid business case for upgrading our programmers to 256 GB SSD and 16 GB of RAM? [duplicate]
We have an environment based on Microsoft stack (VS2010, SQL Server, etc), and I firmly believe that we could improve productivity a little bit, having more RAM and a faster secondary SSD.
What data ...
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Shared Development Space
Currently the company I work in gives each developer their own development virtual machine. On this machine (Windows 7) they install the entire stack of the product (minus database) this stack is ...
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Mirror virtualized development environment
I work alone in some iOS projects in a local environment.
I have been thinking in a way to be able to share my development environment between my Mac Mini and my MacBook. I mostly work at home in the ...
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Difference between Windows and Linux development environments? [closed]
I have an interview coming up soon for a Business Analyst position and the recruiter mentioned some feedback from a prior candidate that was interviewed who said the interviewers asked him what the ...
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Productivity strategies for one developer using many PCs [closed]
In a talk about time management, a famous computer scientist said:
"One machine in your life is the right number."
He recommended a laptop with a docking station.
After trying this approach ...
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Arguments for development environment being the same as production
Intuitively it seems appropriate that the development environment (and all test environments) be as close to the production build as possible. Are there any documented arguments in support of this ...
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Environment naming standards in software development?
My project is currently suffering from environment naming issues. Different people have different assumptions as to what environments should be named or what the names designate, and it's causing ...
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Which is more important in a web application code promotion hierarchy? production environment to repo resemblance or unidirectional propagation?
Lets say you have a code promotion hierarchy consisting of several environments, (the polar end) two of which are development (dev) and production (prod).
Lets say you also have a web application ...
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Working machines of developers - in what ways are they usually standardized or restricted? [closed]
My boss wants to introduce new guidelines for the computers in our company. This means that the software environments will be completely standardized with a predefined set of tools. The goal is that ...
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How to script the creation & configuration of a portable (vm-based?) Windows 7 dev environment? [closed]
I'm getting a new computer and would like to minimize the time spent configuring and maintaining dev environments on my various machines.
To that end, I'm thinking that creating a vm with my ...
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Isolated environment for software stacks
I was sure that I would find this question, but I couldn't. How to create an isolated development environment? It other words, a sandbox, where I can install different combinations of web servers, ...
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Is there a significant difference between working for a development company vs for a single company? [closed]
I currently work for a development company where my job includes managing/updating existing client applications, as well as working on new client applications.
I've never worked for an in-house web ...
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Flexible development environments for creating a common code base targeting tablets (iPad/Android) and x86 PCs
Hopefully this won't be flagged for being too vague, but I'm really looking for suggestions from anyone with experience in this sort of situation.
I work for a group that develops very specialized ...
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Versioning Within a Platform
I work with a few different web platforms, and my actual projects are typically quite small, and live within those platforms. The project files are scattered throughout the platform tree, which makes ...
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At what point should I have my Windows developers upgrade to the latest release of Windows?
At what point should I begin upgrading our developer's machines to a later Windows release?
From experience, Microsoft typically has an epic fail about every other O.S. (I am really not trying to ...
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Is there an IDE for python that creates the same kind of reflective environment that Smalltalk provides?
As anyone who has used Smalltalk knows, one of the main benefits (other than a late-bound language that discourages many poor practices), is that the system is totally transparent and reflective, ...
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How do you limit whitespace differences for developers using different IDEs/environments?
I've used UltraEdit for years and never had a problem with sharing code with fellow developers whether they worked on Windows, Mac, Linux, Eclipse, Visual Studio -- what have you...
But now I am in ...
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How to measure time lost due to environment problems?
I'm trying to determine how we can measure how much time the developers are loosing to poorly managed environment and inefficient ways-of-working.
The goals are:
Show managment how big the problem ...
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Good, simple reasons for having multiple environments
Throughout my career I had worked at companies that had a collection of different environments for different purposes. We always had more or less our desktop environment, a test environment, a QA ...
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What is the best way to set up a development environment to build for Diaspora?
I am a generalist, I have a small bit of experience developing in Ruby. Usually, I would do some subdomaining in Heroku, or something of the sort. However, I am hearing Heroku is a pain with Diaspora. ...
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Should a development machine be inside a VM?
This post by Rob Conery (note the slug) says that development environment should be run inside a virtual machine. I see what he's saying and tend to agree, but still feel a little uneasy. Now that ...
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Virtualized Development Environments in Enterprise Networks
We are attempting to implement a development environment using virtualization for a small team of 4 developers within an enterprise organization. This would allow us to set up separate development, ...
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How to effectively (but minimally) *simulate* a distributed computing environment?
I am doing some personal research on Byzantine Faults. I am trying out algorithms from various research papers which present algorithms for consensus in distributed systems like this one. For this i ...
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What should I be focusing on when building a development PC?
I've beeen given a budget for building a desktop PC for app and game development.
What components should I consider to be a priority when selecting parts for the computer, and which should I ignore ...
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Boss wants to covert all developers to virtualized desktops…help [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Thoughts on Development using Virtual Machines
My boss has been singing the praises of leveraging virtualized desktops for all our developers in the company - about 100 ...
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How is tension of programming environments usually?
I have had experiences in 2 programming environments so far and both have had really stressful environments. I am unhappy currently, but unsure whether the third experience could be worse than the ...
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How to develop on Windows and test and run on Linux?
I am one of two developers for some internal software (written in python) in my company. Software is a server application designed to run on a dedicated Linux box. Currently, we have one box holding ...
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Do the scattered tools and lack of rich IDE makes Ruby and Python only suitable for hobbyists? [closed]
I am not against Ruby and Python, but this question evolved from my own experiences with these languages.
There are a lot of commonly needed tools scattered everywhere and there is no center stage of ...
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Best 3 people development team organization?
A developer of my company was promoted to a new possition that practically manages us developers, and he assigned to 3 people in our team(including me) some big proyects done in Java/Delphi/.NET, the ...
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How to convince co-workers the merits of local development enviroments
I'm trying to convince my co-workers about the merits of developing on local environments, but so far have had little luck in my quest. Outside of myself, the other developers with my company develop ...
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How are you setting up re-usable development environments?
I'm trying to come up with a good approach to creating a re-usable development environment such that it doesn't take a couple days to re-build a machine if it starts to sputter and to be able to ...
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How do you handle the need to have multiple development environments?
How do you deal with different project environments? Every project might require a different database (oracle, IBM db2, mysql & etc), a different server (tomcat, IBM WAS, weblogic & etc) or ...
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Development setup in a company with external developers
EDIT: This is about where the users will have their files, and TEST their changes - a development server so they can edit, save and then refresh a page to see whats changed.
I am currently looking ...
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Mac Dev Team, suggestions for an remote windows testing environment?
Alright, so my situation is as follows:
1 Front End Developer
2 Back End Developers
1 QA Tester
We all currently have Virtual Machines, or Second PC's set up with our windows environments to test. ...
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Setting Up a Development Environment
I am part of an organization that is formalizing their software development processes/capabilities/etc. While the organization is not traditionally a software organization, they want to do this right ...
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Best way to deal with a system without a user acceptance / testing phase
Historically I've been able to get away with making small changes to an in-house helpdesk system riding on a LAMP stack and just making a backup prior to editing.
This has no user acceptance / ...
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What's a good light-weight source repository for local development?
I'm doing some prototyping locally that I would like to keep in source control (for backup and revert purposes) but I don't necessarily want to publish it as open-source or make available online for ...
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Windows Permissions for Developers?
I work at a Fortune 500 company as a Windows software developer in R&D. Corporate IT is currently gearing up for a company-wide Win7 deployment and as a part of it they are looking to completely ...
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How to set up a multi-developer iOS environment?
Let me explain my need:
I'm having a networked environment with 3 computers connected to a server which will be running full-time. The server also runs a FTP server. I would like to create an ...
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Java vs. C# - Productivity perspective [closed]
If you have a number of years experience in working with Java and a number of years experience in working with C# and .NET, I would value your opinion on software development productivity differences ...
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How can I make my PHP development environment more efficient?
I want to start a home-brew pet project in PHP.
I've spent some time in my life developing in PHP and I've always felt it was hard to organize the development environment efficiently.
In my ...
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Is there a good but lightweight C editor or IDE for Windows? [closed]
I would like to do some C development in Windows. But I'm struggling to find a good IDE or Text Editor that is lightweight (e.g. not like Eclipse) but also keep me productive (e.g. has auto-completion ...
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Good Laptop .NET Developer VM Setup
I was torn between putting this question on this site or SuperUsers. I've tried to do a good bit of searching on this, and while I find plenty of info on why to go with a VM or not, there isn't much ...
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What features are missing from Python IDE tools?
What are the most desired features currently lacking in any Python IDE tools?
I'm also interested in what's missing in Komodo 6 but available in other tools (I currently use Komodo 6 for Python 3 ...
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What is the easiest way to migrate your current programming environment to a new laptop?
I have a WinXP based laptop with pretty basic hardware configuration by today's standards. I am planning to upgrade to a WinXP based laptop with a lot better hardware.
The problem: My current laptop ...
