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A development environment is an integrated set of programming tools, usually centered around a text editor.

A development environment is a preconfigured used during development lifecycle. Preferably hidden from the end user.

Key tools includes a text editor, commonly extended with other tools for , , automating tools, database access or project management features. Such an editor called . Commonly configured for seamless tool usage.
Compared to the stability, performance and backup creation may be sacrificed in favor of more logging, easier bug detection or rapid iterations.

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How to check in development or production in ERB file in Rails?

I want to load jQuery UI via Google CDN if in production and locally if in development. So in my application.html.erb layout, I've got to know whether I'm in production or dev. Is there a variable I can check?
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Cygwin vs Linux Virtual Machine for Development?

< skippable part > I work in IT (mostly desktop support and network administration) in a Windows environment, and I occasionally program. A couple weeks ago, I decided I couldn't be as effective as I want to be without a Bash environment for my…
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Displaying PHP Errors from admin-ajax.php in Wordpress 4.9+

We've got some custom endpoints set up that do various things, which we access via /wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=some_action However whenever there is an error as we're developing, such as syntax, logical, fatal etc, we simply get "500 Internal…
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what's the best Firebird IDE?

Simple question. I'm considering Firebird and SQLite for an upcoming project. SQLite has SQLite Administrator, which is pretty good but gets +1M because it has autocomplete. But Firebird supports FKs, so I'm more comfortable with it. I'm leaning…
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What is the best IDE setup for web development?

I am starting a little side project which consists of building a small-medium sized, django-based, website. However, last time I was actually in the business of websites, was a few good years ago. So while still technologically capable, I'm still…
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VS 2010 very slow

I have just upgraded to VS 2010, and I have performance problems which I did not have before (in VS 2008). The most annoying thing is that it freezes while I work in the text editor. Sometimes when it freezes I see that it is saving auto recovery…
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Can you run a local copy of AWS DynamoDB somehow?

If you want to write code to use AWS DynamoDB, is there any way to have it run on your local development environment? Or do you have to use the actual product? Do you have to provision a development environment on AWS? Isn't that annoying because…
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Docker as the effective Rails development environment

[UPDATE] Unfortunately, dear colleagues, I gave up on docker for now. Main factors: Poor shared volume performance (there are some workarounds using additional tools, but it seems more of a hack). This is not an issue for those fine folks that use…
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TextMate tips for Rails Development

Working on Rails code for a bit has started me on the spiral into obsessively customising my dev environment (I say obsessive as at the last Rails meetup I went to there was some guy who was raving about shaving milliseconds off each line of code…
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Xcode copy-paste breakpoints

Is there any way to copy-paste breakpoints in Xcode? The reason I am asking is, I have a breakpoint set to "automatically continue after evaluating", with some actions associated. I want to have the same breakpoint behavior/action in multiple places…
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Using Visual Studio to develop for C++ for Unix

Does anyone have battle stories to share trying to use Visual Studio to develop applications for Unix? And I'm not talking using .NET with a Mono or Wine virtual platform running beneath. Our company has about 20 developers all running Windows…
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Python-dotenv could not parse statement starting at line 2

I have uninstalled and reinstalled python-dotenv still i get same error. Could anyone sort this?
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Embedded platform development in (!C)

I'm curious to see how popular the alternatives to C are in the embedded developer world e.g. Ada... I've only ever used C (with a little bit of assembler), but then my targets have very limited resources. Is there a move else where in this space to…
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Installing Python eggs under PyPy

How do I install Python egg under PyPy? During installation, PyPy created /usr/lib64/pypy-1.5/site-packages/ directory. So, I tried using easy_install with prefix set to this directory, however it complains that this is not a valid directory for…
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Elisp programming - what's the best setup?

There are all kind of cool programming language modes in Emacs, written in elisp, but apparently no special support for elisp itself. Since slime is not working for elisp, I ask myself if all that elisp code is just hacked in the scratch buffer?…
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