Chris Donnan : Programming – Brooklyn Style
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Dev machine software/ tools
Posted Uncategorized on Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
Someone at the office was asking about the melange of tools I have installed on my machine – admittedly I am a tool/ software addict….
What I have on my current project’s machine (win2k….. man) (at least this stuff – and plenty more of lesser note)
VS .Net 2003
Resharper
devMetrics
GhostDoc AddIn
Regions AddIn
Xsd Object Generator
VSWindowManager AddIn
Spring.net
CodeSmith
NDoc
RegexDesigner.NET
CruiseControl.NET
CCTray
NUnit
FxCop
Textpad
Reflector
XmlSpy
Eclipse
Log4net
Infragistics 5.3
Rapid SQL
ClearCase(hatred!!!)
ClearQuest (hatred!!!)
Tomcat
Snippet Compiler
Rhino.Mocks
Simian
Solvent VS.Net Add In
CopySourceAsHtml VS.Net Add In
Things that when they do not kill my machine I keep installed at my current project
Compuware DevPartner
What I add on other machines as must haves (Windows Server 2k3 @ Home, some XP Pro @ Home) (at least this stuff, along with the above list for the most part - and more of lesser note)
VS.Net 2005
SQL Server 2005
Eclipse Ruby
Tomcat
Axis
Spring (for Java)
Ruby
Omea Reader
Subversion
TortoiseSVN
TortoiseCVS
Apex SQL Edit
SQL Server 2000
Microsoft CAB 2.0
Linux Machine must haves (Current Suse 10)
KDevelop
KDevelop Ruby
Eclipse
MonoDevelop
Subversion
Thunderbird
Firefox
Krdc
Akregator
EditpadPro
Butterfly XML
I could go on – but I am back to work.
-Chris

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Dev machine software/ tools
Posted Development Tools on Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
Someone at the office was asking about the melange of tools I have installed on my machine – admittedly I am a tool/ software addict….
What I have on my current project’s machine (win2k….. man) (at least this stuff – and plenty more of lesser note)
VS .Net 2003
Resharper
devMetrics
GhostDoc AddIn
Regions AddIn
Xsd Object Generator
VSWindowManager AddIn
Spring.net
CodeSmith
NDoc
RegexDesigner.NET
CruiseControl.NET
CCTray
NUnit
FxCop
Textpad
Reflector
XmlSpy
Eclipse
Log4net
Infragistics 5.3
Rapid SQL
ClearCase(hatred!!!)
ClearQuest (hatred!!!)
Tomcat
Snippet Compiler
Rhino.Mocks
Simian
Solvent VS.Net Add In
CopySourceAsHtml VS.Net Add In
Things that when they do not kill my machine I keep installed at my current project
Compuware DevPartner
What I add on other machines as must haves (Windows Server 2k3 @ Home, some XP Pro @ Home) (at least this stuff, along with the above list for the most part - and more of lesser note)
VS.Net 2005
SQL Server 2005
Eclipse Ruby
Tomcat
Axis
Spring (for Java)
Ruby
Omea Reader
Subversion
TortoiseSVN
TortoiseCVS
Apex SQL Edit
SQL Server 2000
Microsoft CAB 2.0
Linux Machine must haves (Current Suse 10)
KDevelop
KDevelop Ruby
Eclipse
MonoDevelop
Subversion
Thunderbird
Firefox
Krdc
Akregator
EditpadPro
Butterfly XML
I could go on – but I am back to work.
-Chris
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Suse 10 – Lovely
Posted Uncategorized on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
Well - I must say that Suse 10 is just about the best linux distro I have used ever. Now – I am no *nix expert, but I have installed a good 1/2 dozen different linux distros over the past few years – and Suse 10 is just great. The only battle I had this time – I have had in the past : Video drivers on a laptop. In the end – It would only give me 800×600 resolution by default. To fix that – I simply needed to boot into run level 3, and tell Sax2 to force a resolution on the vesa driver using the –vesa flag. I expect this kind of stuff from any linux distro on a laptop. I did waste some time trying to do a kernel rebuild with some proprietary ATI driver – but it was not the correct solution.
I was able to get Eclipse with the Ruby and Java environments set up in minutes. My wireless network card (a 3com) that has given me problems with older Redhat, fedora, mandriva, etc distros worked out with ease.
My FAVORITE part was the I could remote desktop from the linux laptop to my main windows machine. Since I often sit on the sofa after my wife and kids to to bed with the laptop – I need to be able to get at all my machines (windows mostly). The remote desktop was top notch, 100% clean. Wonderful. One next step is to sort out a pet Ruby project to do 100% on the linux machine. I also plan on porting a C# AI project I spent some zillions of hours on ported to Java/ linux so I could easily value cluster myself on many linux machines… Aaah clustered AI is lovely.
I also need to get a mono development enviroment fully configured. Plenty of work to do
-Chris

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Suse 10 – Lovely
Posted linux on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
Well – I must say that Suse 10 is just about the best linux distro I have used ever. Now – I am no *nix expert, but I have installed a good 1/2 dozen different linux distros over the past few years – and Suse 10 is just great. The only battle I had this time – I have had in the past : Video drivers on a laptop. In the end – It would only give me 800×600 resolution by default. To fix that – I simply needed to boot into run level 3, and tell Sax2 to force a resolution on the vesa driver using the –vesa flag. I expect this kind of stuff from any linux distro on a laptop. I did waste some time trying to do a kernel rebuild with some proprietary ATI driver – but it was not the correct solution.
I was able to get Eclipse with the Ruby and Java environments set up in minutes. My wireless network card (a 3com) that has given me problems with older Redhat, fedora, mandriva, etc distros worked out with ease.
My FAVORITE part was the I could remote desktop from the linux laptop to my main windows machine. Since I often sit on the sofa after my wife and kids to to bed with the laptop – I need to be able to get at all my machines (windows mostly). The remote desktop was top notch, 100% clean. Wonderful. One next step is to sort out a pet Ruby project to do 100% on the linux machine. I also plan on porting a C# AI project I spent some zillions of hours on ported to Java/ linux so I could easily value cluster myself on many linux machines… Aaah clustered AI is lovely.
I also need to get a mono development enviroment fully configured. Plenty of work to do
-Chris
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