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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
