Questions tagged [development-environment]

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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Developing via Remote Desktop

Has anybody any successful remarks about having a team working via Remote Desktop? In many workplaces, we put end users via Citrix and the applications on a central, powerful server. Sometimes the clients are in the same building as the server, but…
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Setting up a Mac for programmers

I recently switched over to a MacBook Pro so I'm still really new at Mac software ecosystem. What is the best guide or what tips do you have to quickly get adept at using Mac for developing on both Mac/Unix and MS platforms (*.NET, SharePoint, SQL…
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Android Studio SDK version error after update

I just finished installing Android Studio and the JDK. Everything worked fine while I looked around the new interface. No errors or anything. After I checked for updates I went from version 0.5.2 to 0.6. When I restarted I got the error Error:The…
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MATLAB Environment Tweaks

How have you tweaked the MATLAB environment to better suit your needs? One tweak per answer.
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switch versions of python

Story: One of the app that i have works on python 2.4 and other on 2.6. I tried to do a sym link of python2.4 to python and things started to break loose on ubuntu jaunty. Now i am downloading every dependency of 2.4 and installing it using…
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Why doesn't Android appear in Eclipses' preferences?

I've installed the Android Developer tools as per the official instructions. Why doesn't the tab appear in Windows->Preferences, as they said it should?
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How do you set up your .NET development tree?

How do you set up your .NET development tree? I use a structure like this: -projectname --config (where I put the configuration files) --doc (where I put all the document concerning the project: e-mails, documentation) --tools (all the tools I…
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Which work process in my company should I Improve first?

I've just started to work in a new place, and I see several things they do that I find really terrible, and I want to know if they are indeed so wrong, or I am just too strict. Please let me know if my criticism is in place, and your opinion on…
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What version of Eclipse is included with the SDK ADT bundle for Android Dev?

See http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html I want to know whether the bundle contains the buggy version of Eclipse (I think Juno) as well as just for curiosity's sake whether they use classic or java or java ee.
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sandboxing/running python code line by line

I'd love to be able to do something like these two are doing: Inventing on principle @18:20 , Live ClojureScript Game Editor If you don't wanna check the videos, my problem is this: Say I had this code: .... xs = [] for x in xrange(10): …
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Using laptop as a second programming monitor

The joys of multimonitor programming are countless, I think there are about 5 blog posts on Coding Horror on the topic alone! I often code in Windows on my main machine, and have my Mac laptop set up to the side. I use the Mac both to compile Mac…
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How can I synchronize my code to a remote machine using ssh?

For a current course I am taking, we are using a remote computer to run our code. I am coding locally on my MacBook and I'm looking for a good way to keep my local code up to date on the cluster. The way I was doing it was to have a terminal open…
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Integration between Github Issues and Netbeans

Is posible to integrate the project issue tracker of Github into Netbeans to automatize the add, change or remove issues trough the IDE. Thanks
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Node + Docker Compose: Development and production setup

I'm looking for a solution to have both a development and a production environment in my project using docker, docker-compose and nodejs. How do I approach this? Basically what I want is a command to start my docker production environment, and a…
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Making sense of Scala development tools

There is a myriad of development tools and terms in the ecosystem, for example, language server, build server, Metals, BSP, LSP, Bloop, Zinc, Coursier, incremental compiler, presentation compiler, etc. I was wondering if someone could demonstrate…