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Ask HN: Web apps, Mobile Apps or Desktop App Developers - What's your Dev Setup?

13 points by adityar 14y ago

What kind of development infrastructure do you (and your team) use to create, test, build and deploy your product?

factorialboy 14y ago
Most do web app development (full stack) but once a while have built desktop (Ubuntu) and mobile (Android) apps as well. Technologies I work with: Node.js, Scala, Java, Python, Android OS: Ubuntu (Xubuntu) 12.04, Windows 7 IDE: IntelliJ IDEA - Consistent across various technologies and perfect for large code bases Text Editor: Sublime Text 2 - Pretty damn awesome, even with large files Terminal: Terminator
goshakkk 14y ago
I'm a web app developer, mostly. I've recently wrote about my setup & toolbox (http://goshakkk.name/my-toolbox/ http://goshakkk.name/my-toolbox/). Shortly: Macbook Air 13" (OS X ML) + Thunderbolt Display 27". Terminal: Terminal.app, zsh, oh-my-zsh. Solarized theme. Editor: Vim, Janus, bunch of plugins. With Solarized theme too. Technologies: Ruby, Rails. MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, Backbone, CoffeeScript. Deployment: Heroku.
jamesjguthrie 14y ago
Mobile app developer. Hardware: Lenovo T400, 8GB RAM, Core 2 Duo (due upgrade) + 50" Samsung Plasma display. OS: W7 x64, OS X ML. Platforms: Android, iOS, Blackberry Playbook Android emulator. Technologies: Java, Objective-C, PHP, JSON, Google App Engine. Unit testing on Android: Robolectric. IDE: Eclipse and Xcode. Deployment: Google Play Store, App Store.
Brainix 14y ago
I'm a web and mobile (Android) app developer. Hardware: Last gen MacBook Pro (15" with matte screen), iPhone 4. Operating systems: Mountain Lion, iOS 5. Development tools for web apps: Terminal.app, bash, vim (for Sinatra apps), TextMate (for Rails apps), git, GitHub, Ruby 1.9.3, Sinatra (with DataMapper and Haml), Rails, jQuery, Google Chrome. In my experience, vim is better for projects with fewer or larger files, and TextMate is better for projects with more or smaller files. Production environment: Heroku Cedar stack, Heroku Postgres, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, MemCachier (through Heroku), New Relic (through Heroku for profiling/performance info). Development tools for Android apps: Eclipse, git, GitHub. I hate Eclipse, but I haven't found a better way to develop Android apps.
AznHisoka 14y ago
Web and mobile developer MacBook 17'' Editor: SubEthaEdit, XCode for iPhone, Eclipse for Android Languages: Rails, Redis, Objective C, Python Infrastructure: EngineYard
gjulianm 14y ago
WP7 (mobile) app developer: Windows 7 with VS2010, solarized theme. Calcium SDK for MVVM development. Unit tests: Jeff Wilcox's Silverlight Unit Test Framework (WP7 SDK doesn't have unit tests built-in). Test device: a Lumia 800. The emulator doesn't work well on my machine. Source control: git (command line, no VS plugins) and GitHub. I occasionally also use my Macbook 13" with TextWrangler for writing some code when I can't access my main PC or when I want to make some fast fixes.
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adityar 14y ago
A clarification - Web app developers, Mobile Developers or desktop developers, what's your dev setup ?

13 points by adityar 14y ago

What kind of development infrastructure do you (and your team) use to create, test, build and deploy your product?

Most do web app development (full stack) but once a while have built desktop (Ubuntu) and mobile (Android) apps as well. Technologies I work with: Node.js, Scala, Java, Python, Android OS: Ubuntu (Xubuntu) 12.04, Windows 7 IDE: IntelliJ IDEA - Consistent across various technologies and perfect for large code bases Text Editor: Sublime Text 2 - Pretty damn awesome, even with large files Terminal: Terminator

goshakkk 14y ago

I'm a web app developer, mostly. I've recently wrote about my setup & toolbox (http://goshakkk.name/my-toolbox/ http://goshakkk.name/my-toolbox/). Shortly: Macbook Air 13" (OS X ML) + Thunderbolt Display 27". Terminal: Terminal.app, zsh, oh-my-zsh. Solarized theme. Editor: Vim, Janus, bunch of plugins. With Solarized theme too. Technologies: Ruby, Rails. MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, Backbone, CoffeeScript. Deployment: Heroku.

jamesjguthrie 14y ago

Mobile app developer. Hardware: Lenovo T400, 8GB RAM, Core 2 Duo (due upgrade) + 50" Samsung Plasma display. OS: W7 x64, OS X ML. Platforms: Android, iOS, Blackberry Playbook Android emulator. Technologies: Java, Objective-C, PHP, JSON, Google App Engine. Unit testing on Android: Robolectric. IDE: Eclipse and Xcode. Deployment: Google Play Store, App Store.

Brainix 14y ago

I'm a web and mobile (Android) app developer. Hardware: Last gen MacBook Pro (15" with matte screen), iPhone 4. Operating systems: Mountain Lion, iOS 5. Development tools for web apps: Terminal.app, bash, vim (for Sinatra apps), TextMate (for Rails apps), git, GitHub, Ruby 1.9.3, Sinatra (with DataMapper and Haml), Rails, jQuery, Google Chrome. In my experience, vim is better for projects with fewer or larger files, and TextMate is better for projects with more or smaller files. Production environment: Heroku Cedar stack, Heroku Postgres, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, MemCachier (through Heroku), New Relic (through Heroku for profiling/performance info). Development tools for Android apps: Eclipse, git, GitHub. I hate Eclipse, but I haven't found a better way to develop Android apps.

AznHisoka 14y ago

Web and mobile developer MacBook 17'' Editor: SubEthaEdit, XCode for iPhone, Eclipse for Android Languages: Rails, Redis, Objective C, Python Infrastructure: EngineYard

gjulianm 14y ago

WP7 (mobile) app developer: Windows 7 with VS2010, solarized theme. Calcium SDK for MVVM development. Unit tests: Jeff Wilcox's Silverlight Unit Test Framework (WP7 SDK doesn't have unit tests built-in). Test device: a Lumia 800. The emulator doesn't work well on my machine. Source control: git (command line, no VS plugins) and GitHub. I occasionally also use my Macbook 13" with TextWrangler for writing some code when I can't access my main PC or when I want to make some fast fixes.

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adityar 14y ago

A clarification - Web app developers, Mobile Developers or desktop developers, what's your dev setup ?