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Developer Laptop SSD and HDD Setup [closed]
Lenovo Thinkpad W520 - Add 128GB or 256GB Vertex 4
I am going to get an ultra-bay for the current HDD for mass storage and data overflow. I am looking at the best way to setup the OS and ...
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What are the risks of giving developers admin rights to their own PCs? [closed]
I need to convince my internal IT department to give my new team of developers admin rights to our own PCs. They seem to think this will create some security risk to the network.
Can anyone explain ...
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Any Rest Client for software Development (for testing)? [closed]
I am developing an application that requires lots of REST API calls.
I would like to have REST client for testing purpose. Anyone have good recommendation?
I know there is a one in firefox plugin.
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Transferring iOS/Mac App Store Developer Credentials
I'm a Mac/iOS developer, and currently have all my code and certificates/profiles on a single machine.
I'm currently using a 500GB platter drive, but will be moving soon to a 256GB SSD.
My drive is ...
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What needs to be considered when setting up for Linux Development? [closed]
I want to set up a box for Linux development.
I have a working linux install with the usual toolchain and an IDE. I'm looking for advice on how to approach structuring accounts and folders for ...
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How to get the iPhone user's name [closed]
On Siri it will give you a response like "Im sorry Carl I cannot do that" Example How does siri get the iPhone user's name? Is that in apple's public API?
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VMWare Fusion on Mac w/ Ubuntu - Setting up shared LAMP Environment
I recently purchased a Mac and installed VMware Fusion and Ubuntu. I've setup LAMP on Ubuntu and setup a mirrored folder between the mac and ubuntu.
I want to be able to do my development on the Mac ...
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What are laptop requirements for Android development? [closed]
I need to know the best Laptop configuration (not company). I will develop Android on Eclipse IDE with Internet browsing as well listening to MP3s or video. Also, I will use Adobe Photoshop.
How do ...
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Software Development Environment Locking up entirely
Currently, our software developers are working with MSVC and have certain parts of their build process reach out to files on the network. Theres one portion of the build process in which they use a ...
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How to develop a website like superuser? [closed]
I want to develop a website like devoting it to the those who are really sincere in exchanging knowledge but afraid of misuse of it so I request you all please help me to develop and make it a popular ...
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f12 and ctrl + f5 not working correctly
When I came back to my work computer after being away for a week I found out when I try to clear the cache and refresh the page via ctrl + f5 (or just f5) I get the prompt "Type the Internet address ...
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Developing Windows Live v14 add ins
I've seen a few tutorials on how to enable add-ons on older versions of windows live, but is there any way to do this in v14? Or is there another way to implement add-ins I created?
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iOS Remote Development
Can an OS X Lion Server be used to develop remotely? If yes, could more than one person be on it at a time? Thoughts?
I'm trying to find a way for users without Macs to remote in and learn how to do ...
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What is the difference between Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional
Microsoft makes it so easy these days to pick the right software.
I use a Mac but need Windows in a virtual machine for some of my specialized development tools. I am currently running XP and am ...
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Eclipse PDT - SVN is missing, even though I have Subclipse installed
I have following packages installed on my Scientific Linux release 6.0 (Carbon):
eclipse-svnkit-1.3.0-3.el6.x86_64
eclipse-rcp-3.6.1-6.13.el6.x86_64
eclipse-swt-3.6.1-6.13.el6.x86_64
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Some guidance on Linux version for general use + interface development?
I'll try to keep this focussed, though by my journey's nature it will want to be everything but.
I'm a front-end web developer, I've always developed on Windows with technologies like XHTML, CSS, ...
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What is “upstream”?
I always hear people saying it's better to "merge upstream" and stuff like that when it comes to designing software and the like. I have a feeling it's to do with mainstream linux kernel stuff but I'm ...
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Problem installing Android SDK on Eclipse Galileo
I am using Kubuntu 10.10 and Eclipse Galileo and am trying to install the SDK. I am following the instructions provided at http://developer.android.com.
The step where my Eclipse detects the plugin ...
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Java Developer Which laptop to buy? [closed]
I start my new job next month, entry level java developer. I have been a .Net developer ever since I got out of school. I was pondering if buying a mac book pro would be ideal for java? I've had ...
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Ultraportable for development [closed]
I am planning to get a Lenovo ultraportable for development work. It will be a Linux box.
I'm looking to compare between the soon-to-be-released x120e ...
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Lightweight CSV viewer for Mac?
I need to view (large) CSV files on my Mac. I could use something like OpenOffice, but unfortunately it's pretty big and slow. I'm wondering if there's a Mac equivalent of some of the Windows tools ...
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Choosing a Laptop for (Silverlight) Game Development
I use FlatRedBall for Silverlight game development (casual, Flash-style games). I'm toying with the idea of getting a laptop to develop during my commute (~4 hours per day). Probably on Windows XP, ...
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What's the typical latency for key strokes using an ssh connection on a local wifi network?
I develop software on a Macbook Air 1.6 Ghz but find running Rails test suites and generators on this computer very slow. I'm thinking about buying a Linux tower to put on my local wireless network to ...
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Set windows `always below bottom-most`?
There is an "Always on topmost" menu option for windows. I'm not sure if it's related to compiz or metacity.
I want to set the Totem player or Cheese the WebCAM player, always below the bottom-most, ...
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The best X11 development guide? [closed]
I have no experience develop with X11.
I have once programming with Win32, MFC, DirectX, etc. So there must be a lot Microsoft stuff filled in my brain, and I want to train myself to convert the ...
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software development under chromeOS?
Will I be able to do software development (scala, java, python, ruby, etc.) when I'm using the chromeOS? What are the development environments gonna be like? Currently I use vim, bash, and eclipse ...
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What are your recommended components for a Desktop PC used with .Net technology? [closed]
(Please redirect me & my question to the correct site if SU is not the place to ask this question)
What is the best/powerful hardware configuration that you recommend for a Desktop PC used for ...
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Enso Launcher: dead or lives on? where?
I just discovered Enso Launcher, and seems it's a tool I always dreamed about (even tried to made some part of its functionality myself).
But it seems, it dead now, and community Enso is only fork of ...
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How much RAM do I need for Software development? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Developer’s PC - worth getting more than 8GB RAM?
Typically I'm running Windows 7 + Visual Studio 2010 + MySql server + MS SQL server.
I'm using TDD with lots of ...
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iPad app development on Windows
Is there anyway you can develop iPad applications on Windows? I know there must be but can't seem to find an appropriate IDE. [Apps using HTML 5, CSS 3 and Javascript]
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Are dev downloads as complete as their regular counterparts?
I was wondering, are dev downloads always as complete as their regular counterparts?
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Get multiple systems at once?
I heard that there are some programmes that allow to feel like you have 2 OS at once, that is to say, you can easily, without rebooting, switch between them. So I have the follwing question concerning ...
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Using several IDEs .. Virtual machine or no VM
I'm using a bunch of debuggers, IDEs. They install a huge load of software on the PC and some of them also runs as service (I could write a batch file for this though). When I try to uninstall them, ...
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Running Windows 7 in a VM for tinkering
Is there any kind of dev edition VM image of windows 7 to play around with to avoid messing up my normal install?
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How can I run the latest version of Chrome on Mac OS X?
In a bug post I sent to the Chrome developers, a developer sent me the message:
We don't see this difference in the
new builds of Chrome. Checked in
6.0.437.2 dev. Can you check and confirm ...
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Pros and Cons using Mapping an FTP Drive VS FTP Client (Filezilla)
I want to know why would you use the other method to the other. Why use FTP Client if there is Mapping of Drive or vise versa.
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Running Windows 7 on a Mac Pro
My question is simple:
Is running Windows 7 on a Mac Pro as the dominant OS a bad idea?
I'm interested in starting some Mac programing but still want to do Windows-based coding.
I'm tossing up ...
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MySQL as a simple Mac application for development
What is the easiest way to run MySQL for development purposes on the Mac?
Ideal would be a server embedded in a Mac application, that starts when you press a start button, and stops when you quit the ...
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Port forwarding to asp.net development server
I have configured my router so that I can access my localhost from internet. But I can't manage to port forward it to asp.net development server.
In router's port forwarding I did the same thing as ...
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Driver denied access to PCI card
Alright, I asked this on StackOverflow (here) and they suggested trying ServerFault to get help on permissions.
So here's the deal. We designed a custom PCI card and wrote the driver for it. It's ...
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Development environment clean installation
I'm about to install a new and clean development environment. To accomplish that, I would like a Windows operating system (possibly Windows 7) and a Ubuntu one (possibly the most recent, 10.04). To ...
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How can I run the same Linux Installation on my hardware and in a virtual machine?
I've started some development that requires Linux (I'm currently on Ubuntu, but I may switch to Debian), but I still use Windows 7 for my day-to-day computing.
I have already tried a dual-boot setup, ...
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How Lenovo x200(x61) tablet is so great for programming? whats up with so low GHz processors for debugging?
for best laptop for programming after reading here looks like its Mac vs Lenovo (tablet, because tablet is only why I would choose it over Mac). I do crave that tablet but low speed processor scares ...
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Better to develop Ruby project on server or buy a faster desktop computer? B/c laptop too slow
I have a Linux laptop (Vostro V13) running a Celeron M chip. This is a fine laptop, but running unit tests especially for Rails applications is slow. I want a faster development environment but I ...
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Can someone find me a reference to this quote? [closed]
I'm looking for a reasonable reference to a known software personality who said something along the lines "make sure your software runs the most common cases fast/easy but all cases are possible". ...
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Virtual Machines Renaming/Backing up/Sharing
I've started using VMware virtual machines for all of my software development projects and have a few questions for others doing the same thing.
First, how can you rename the virtual machine and the ...
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File sharing for developers
My project requires us to setup a file sharing system so that developers can share documents and use it as a forum for discussions pertaining to those docs.
The developers are spread though locations ...
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Developer's PC - worth getting more than 8GB RAM?
I'm building a developer PC and am wondering whether to get 8GB or 12GB. It's a Core-i7 860 system, i.e., 1156 motherboards with 4 slots for RAM sticks, dual channel, usually up 16GB (as opposed to ...
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Thinkpad X200 Tablet for programming
I saw there are some posts about programming on netbooks, but not about tablets, who have a larger screen..
I want to buy a notebook (my first, actually), and a tablet would be the best choice: ...
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Best practices for setting up LAMP development environment
I'm having a nightmare setting up a decent environment for developing Wordpress on a local machine.
I'm constantly manually tweaking file permissions every time I add a plugin.
I can't install ...
