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Ask HN: What does your development environment look like?
I'm curious as to what others' development environments look like. Screenshots are best. I'll kick it off.
- PhrosTT 16y agodual 20"s 1600x1200. windows 7 w/ ultramon. i'm fairly newbish... juggle 1 of (zend studio | eclipse | vs 2010) with photoshop, filezilla, putty, firefox, and notepad++. currently i'm developing php that runs on an ec2 box w/ memcached... i can't get true memcached on windows and not really a vim/emacs/whatever hardcore text editor type. also need windows for photoshop and whatnot. any tips?
- mdolon 16y agoUbuntu on VMWare = problem solved.
- mrduncan 16y agoNot my site, but you may also find http://usesthis.com/ http://usesthis.com/ interesting. It has short interviews with well-known developers/designers that focus on the tools they use and how they work.
- thesnark 16y agohttp://i.imgur.com/ZCADh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ZCADh.jpg Beautiful Vancouver weather today...
- amackera 16y agoWhat's the startup scene in Vancouver like?
- thesnark 16y agoThis post can answer far more completely than I can: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565375 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565375 Vancouver gets a nod from pg as one of the best places to do a startup outside of the US. I only recently moved here, so I am not very involved in the local scene, although I would like to start meeting people.
- simonk 16y agoIts been raining all day! If your looking to get in to the startup scene a lunch is probably going to happen soon (http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Web-Based-Entrepreneurs/ http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Web-Based-Entrepreneurs/). Although you can always just email anyone and meet up for coffee/lunch with just them.
- zentechen 16y agoMonitors are cheap nowadays, why can't everyone just get the dual 24+, 27, or even 30 inch monitors? Why have to stay with the smaller screen where one can go big? Just googled and found 27" for less than $400 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Acer-B273H-bmidhz-27-Inch-Widescreen/dp/B003E1Z44E/ref=sr_1_10?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1283276289&sr=1-10 http://www.amazon.com/Acer-B273H-bmidhz-27-Inch-Widescreen/d...
- zaphoyd 16y agoThere is a lot more to a monitor than it's physical dimensions. The 27 inch display that you linked has a similar or lower resolution than most 23/24 inch displays and is a tn panel with limited viewing angle, color reproduction, and overall clarity. There are many good options for quality 24 inch (1920x1200) panels at reasonable prices but 27/30 inch panels at resolutions that make those inches worth having (2560x1600) are still quite pricy.
- zokier 16y agoAnd here I am, looking for new monitor, and the best deal so far is 21.5" for 300 euro... But it's not TN and it's certainly not an Acer. edit: ... and it has the same resolution than the linked 27". What use is large screen if you can't show more stuff with it? Waste of desk space, if you ask me.
- xiongchiamiov 16y ago$400 is more than I've been paying for rent. I got my second monitor (a crappy 17in lcd) off craigslist for $20. I got my (rather comfy) chair from campus surplus for 5. tldr: When you're a student, $400 is a lot of money.
- _neil 16y agoat work: iMac + 13" macbook with synergy. iMac usually has chrome, textmate, thunderbird, and titanium all on one workspace. fullscreen iterm on the other. adium, itunes, irssi, etc on macbook screen. at home, same macbook with an external monitor. one workspace is iterm on the right screen, usually photoshop, adium, + other misc apps on left. other workspace is textmate on right screen, chrome and cyberduck (if necessary) on left screen.
- jnoller 16y agoMine's pretty simple: http://imgur.com/aiyfw.png http://imgur.com/aiyfw.png VIM on the left; on the right top is a terminal, each tab is a different virtualenv, on the bottom is a bpython shell. All my other screens (OSX) are running Chrome, Mail.app/Adium and VMware (lots of that).
- Derferman 16y agoTerminal and Emacs on OS X. 21" ASUS monitor and a late 2007 Macbook Pro. Firefox, Chrome, and Safari open all the time.
- proles 16y agohttp://img.ly/zY3 http://img.ly/zY3 this is my home setup. unfortunately the big screen is best used only for reference, otherwise it strains my neck.
- henry_flower 16y agohttp://bit.ly/dpG5Og http://bit.ly/dpG5Og
- adambyrtek 16y agoIt's the first time I see somebody actually using Xeyes, I'm impressed!
- dawsdesign 16y agohttp://appdelegateinc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/desk.jpg http://appdelegateinc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/de...
- bretthoerner 16y agohttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4774485856_e9aa9d81cf_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4774485856_e9aa9d81cf_b.... 30" Dell LCD, typically 2/3 emacs 1/3 terminal (no, I don't use a terminal inside emacs). I use my ThinkPad's keyboard by choice because I really like it, and the laptop screen is where I flip between browser / IRC / etc. Ubuntu, xmonad, Chrome, Emacs, gnome-terminal. Nothing too special.
- nebusoft 16y agoThis was not specifically for showing my coding development but my computer setup. Linux on the left 2 monitors, Windows on the right 2 for VS2010 (dayjob). http://www.provokedguild.org/images/rig/Pic8.jpg http://www.provokedguild.org/images/rig/Pic8.jpg
- rbranson 16y agohttp://imgur.com/LYjiE.jpg http://imgur.com/LYjiE.jpg It's a pretty standard Rails hipster setup on a Mac using TextMate as the editor. I'm using a 27" Dell U2711 display. The left hand Terminal is used for monitoring autotest (an automatic test suite runner for Ruby/Rails) and messing around with the interactive Ruby shell (IRB), git, etc. The right hand Terminal is used for monitoring requests as they come into the development environment's web server. The Windows XP Professional is running on VMware Fusion and used for IE testing. I use Visual Web Developer 2008 for debugging in IE. I've got two Chrome windows, one for API documentation and one for testing, with a permanent Developer Tools window at the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
- bkorte 16y agoI'm curious - why XP with VS for IE debugging? IE6? I've been using Win7 and IE developer tools, switching between 7 & 8 for testing and it's been working out pretty good lately.
- rbranson 16y agoIE6 yes. I use VS because IE Developer Tools doesn't offer sophisticated enough JavaScript debugging. I work with large JS-heavy projects, like entire clients built in JS that talk JSON/REST to a backend server.
- jcromartie 16y agoTerminal and Emacs on OS X. I have VMWare Fusion running XP with cygwin and rxvt, Emacs, and Visual Studio 2008. I write C# code in Visual Studio and Ruby code in Emacs on Windows for our main project, and I do most everything else (mostly Clojure, some Ruby) in Emacs and Terminal on OS X. Org-mode is a crucial part of my daily routine. On the physical side, I use whatever 17" NEC LCD this is here, plugged into a 13" MBP. I occasionally go into the office and use another monitor, so I also use an Apple Wireless Keyboard (the aluminum one) and a Logitech laser laptop mouse.
- SandB0x 16y agoSuper+e: http://i.imgur.com/UgrxJ.png http://i.imgur.com/UgrxJ.png The normal workspaces on my laptop, running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. From left to right: vim, Gmail/Chrome, Songbird, spare/documentation/second terminal It's quite cramped with just one screen. I really need to get some good monitors and a solid desk. Oh, and perhaps most importantly a pad of paper when away from home, and a glass whiteboard when at home.
- aphyr 16y agohttp://aphyr.com/media/desktop.jpg http://aphyr.com/media/desktop.jpg Vim, vim, vim, vim, vim, vim, vim, vim, vim, logging, bacon, irb. I try to keep large methods I'm actively editing on the big windows and reference material on the smaller ones. I also arrange them physically to match the control flow--the deepest methods in the stack live to the left, and successively higher ones live to the right, up to the controller and view for MVC. I usually have an IRB session open to test new ideas, one window for running the test suite, and one to watch the logfile or run the server. On the other monitor, usually docs, whatever I'm building, and more docs. On a single 24" display (at work), I usually fold the docs over my bacon/irb terminals. I run 6 workspaces in Openbox. Almost everything has a hotkey. [edit] Folks at my office know me as "that guy with all the terminals". I think part of it is that my working memory is not fantastic, and that I'm a really visual thinker. Having everything laid out in space really helps me keep track of a complex, modular system.
- LoneCoder 16y agoSeems like vim could really use tabbed navigation!
- brianmwang 16y agoI spy Summer Glau on your wall :)
- dmm 16y agoShe needs to learn some trigger discipline.
- bigsassy 16y agoThat's interesting. Your workflow reminds me of that Code Bubbles IDE posted a little while back: http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm
- spokey 16y agoWow, that's a lot of screen. And here I am doing most of my coding with a 9" netbook. (Edit: Actually, I think it's the same as cool-RR's post elsewhere on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649828 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649828, just without the external monitor.)
- EvanK 16y agoAt work: 27" iMac + Textmate + Virtualbox + Transmit + ExpanDrive + Shimo + Navicat At home: Custom PC w/ 24" Samsung monitor + e Text Editor + Virtualbox + PuTTY + Filezilla + ExpanDrive + Navicat
- ScottWhigham 16y agoHmmmm - harder to do a viewable screenshot of a dual monitor setup... http://imgur.com/9JDT3.jpg http://imgur.com/9JDT3.jpg Left monitor = coding, research notes Right monitor = testing, virtual machines All running Windows 2008 R2 Firefox with Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, Greasemonkey, Gears, Page Saver Visual Studio 2010
- Symmetry 16y agoMy main workspace has several terminals, each with multiple tabs open, mostly with copies of vim running.
- gte910h 16y agoOn windows, gvim. On mac (we primarily do iPhone apps), Xcode, with MacVim as the external editor with keybindings setup to build/build-run, etc. All this spanned over 2 windows monitors, 1 mac laptop and an external mac monitor, with an iPad sometimes becoming a 3rd mac monitor.
- bigsassy 16y agohttp://imgur.com/37L7Z.png http://imgur.com/37L7Z.png Django site. WingIDE, two terminals for runserver and test django commands respectively, and the browser (currently showing my tool for viewing and debugging data in the app). There's a space in the top left corner because I have the left monitor in a vertical setup and the right in a horizontal. EDIT - View from my office: http://twitpic.com/23rg8a http://twitpic.com/23rg8a
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- Maro 16y agohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mtrencseni/4842660613/in/set-72157624614348814/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtrencseni/4842660613/in/set-72... http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtrencseni/4843277432/in/set-72157624614348814/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtrencseni/4843277432/in/set-72...
- bd 16y agoI posted this screenshot the last time similar question was asked: http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/img/dev.png http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/img/dev.png It's more or less the same now, just the code is different. Usually I have open at any time: SciTE, Notepad++, many browsers, Python shell, XAMPP/nginx, Gimp, Cygwin shell. Most of times, just one window is fullscreen and I switch when needed (or just use magic hover feature from Windows 7).
- eliben 16y agoI'm curious - why both SciTE and Notepad++?
- bd 16y agoMostly for grouping. In general I use SciTE for code, Notepad++ for everything else (I use zillions of text files). Two separate applications give two distinct icons in taskbar, allowing me to switch fast between two groups (as opposed to figuring out which content tab in one editor has the right file). Also, I like them both, and don't have a heart to drop using one of them :). BTW I do the same with browsers (and OSes, I keep "affair" with Ubuntu in VirtualBox).
- cool-RR 16y agoThis is a picture of my desk: http://cool-rr.com/cv/images/desk.jpg http://cool-rr.com/cv/images/desk.jpg Wing IDE is taking both of my screens.
- dawsdesign 16y agoYou are too organized for me.
- llimllib 16y agopretty similar to mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/llimllib/3679964891/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/llimllib/3679964891/ but with a 17" macbook instead of the netbook and Vim instead of Wing.
- ZeroMinx 16y ago12 work spaces (I prefer not having more than 2 or 3 windows in a work space). Contents depend on what I'm working on, but right now - 4 with emacs (3 different projects), 2 with browsers, 1 with IM. The rest contains terminal windows and one or 2 file browsers.
- dugmartin 16y agoL shaped desk with 3 monitors on the long leg - 2 24" monitors hooked to a PC and 1 24" monitor hooked to a Mac Mini - sharing 1 wireless keyboard/mouse via Synergy. The short leg of the L has a Dell 10V with Ubuntu.
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- moby_duck 16y agoBoomerang-shaped desk with two monitors: one large, one small. The large monitor shares space with Windows apps and the VNC to my Linux session. On my Linux fvwm2 desktop I primarily use konsole to tab around different xterms, and gvim + NerdTree to edit my RTL source code. Almost every hardware designer I know uses vim. I guess we're not very lispy.
- eliben 16y agoWell, I'm using SciTE for VHDL coding (on Windows). Armed with a snippets plugin and connected to multiple Python scripts it's quite a beast.
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- mahmud 16y agoman sudo
- epochwolf 16y agoIt's been a very long time since I've seen DOS.
- technomancy 16y agohttp://technomancy.us/137 http://technomancy.us/137 tl;dr - Basically just Emacs and Conkeror on Ubuntu. The combo of xbindkeys and devilspie help me not have to worry about the WM; apps for which it makes sense are full-screened for me. Emacs does pretty much everything for me including git, shells, IRC, and IM. The only thing I leave Emacs for is browsing via Conkeror (which feels a lot like Emacs) and the occasional photo edit in Gimp. For working on remote hosts and pairing with remote devs, tmux is a blessing. All this on a 1.1kg Thinkpad X200s with a Kinesis Freestyle keyboard. Nexus One with Cyanogen is used as a 3G modem when I'm out and about.
- bcl 16y agoDual 22" widesceen monitors. left is mac mini, right is Fedora. I use synergy+ to share the mac keyboard and Logitech trackball between the systems. Workspaces separate out distractions - 1 is a pair of gnome-terminal sessions with screen running on each and lots of vim. 2 is firefox + vimperator, 3 thunderbird, 4 xchat, 5 for virt-manager and 6 for misc stuff. I ran xmonad for a while and found I really liked the full-screen orientation, but missed being able to cut and paste from terminals easily, so now its GNOME with everything full-screen. I've re-mapped the keys in Fedora to take advantage of the command key on the mac keyboard, so I can work most of the day without touching the trackball.
- bretthoerner 16y agoWhat does xmonad change about cut/paste?
- nevinera 16y agoI suppose it depends on what terminal you're using, but gnome-terminal at least copies and pastes fine in xmonad - use C-S-c and C-S-v. If you mean without the pointer, please tell me if you have a way to manage that in normal gnome - it's almost the only time I have to use my ball.
- vishaldpatel 16y agovim for rails, javascript, html, php xcode for objective c google docs gmail
- edanm 16y agoDesktop computer, running Windows XP (looking to upgrade computer, and then move to Windows 7). 2 Monitors, 26" Samsung and a 22" Asus. Most of the time, I've got open Sublime Text for coding, Chrome for browsing, Firefox + Extensions for debugging sites, Photoshop, and a few command prompts for mercurial and django commands.
- YuriNiyazov 16y agoI recently became a nomad. Just a Macbook Air, no external monitor, I switch between windows using Spaces extensively.
- brlewis 16y agoemacs+firefox on Ubuntu
- mhusby 16y agohttp://drp.ly/1DCKfG http://drp.ly/1DCKfG MBP screen: Skype + email Dell 24: Browsers (testing + docs) Dell 22 (vertical): Code (Netbeans) + terminals
- jonknee 16y agoWhat are you using to get the second external monitor working on a MBP? I'm thinking of doing the same, but haven't researched the best way.
- mhusby 16y agohttp://www.diamondmm.com/BVU195.php http://www.diamondmm.com/BVU195.php There are better ones out there that can do high resolution, but this one handles the 22 inch at 1050x1680 like a champ.
- endtime 16y agoCurrently: Opera + (Komodo Edit + CoffeeScript) + (Console2 + cygwin) + (VirtualBox + (CentOS + emacs)) + (VirtualBox + Ubuntu Server) + Outlook
- aplusbi 16y agoAt work I have a Windows laptop connected to a dock with two monitors. I have a Kinesis freestyle keyboard. Most of my development is done on a remote Linux box, so pretty much everything I do is through SSH. I use a variety of software to make this as pleasant as possible: dtach - this is a life saver whenever I get disconnected from the interwebs. It detaches a process from the controlling terminal. dvtm - a tiling terminal manager. I used to use gnu screen but I prefer the layouts that dvtm offers. This plus dtach replaces 99% of what I used screen for. Vim - my text editor of choice. pyclewn - integrates gdb with vim nicely.
- beagle3 16y agoif dtach is a lifesaver for you, gnu screen will really blow your mind -- it can let you detach the controlling terminal from the session (and as a bonus, if you are working with other people, you can connect to the terminal simultaneously to work together)
- aplusbi 16y agoAs I said I used to use gnu screen. However I didn't like the limited layout options so I started using dvtm and would nest it inside screen so that I could detach from a session. However I felt it was kind of silly to be using such a heavy/complex program such as screen for one feature so I switched to dtach. And actually as long as you set file permissions correctly (dtach uses a file as a socket) you can share terminals with others using dtach.
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- leif 16y agoblack, like my men: http://i.imgur.com/SciNb.png http://i.imgur.com/SciNb.png
- TheSmoke 16y agoi'm using terminator as my terminal which lets me split my terminal windows. As my programming editor I use vim with nerdtree and bunch of other plugins. Ubuntu is my distro.
- kunley 16y agoEmacs, since 14 years. I was looking for something better each 2 years or so -- yeah emacs isn't perfect -- but didn't find.
- gaak99 16y agoEmacs über alles: StumpWM managing Emacs & Conkeror. On opensolaris, RIP.
- adam-_- 16y agoI'm curious as to why no mac people are using SizeUp. Looks like everyone is manually dragging the windows about?