For those who do development of any sort....

[Hyperblaze]

How is your environment setup?

For example, what platform do you work in? How is it backed up?

What kind of testing platform do you use?

Essentially...how are things organized?

 

[Platypus]

I do all my development (what very little I do, mostly hacked together perl scripts and shell code) with vi on the AIX UNIX platform.

All stored via highly accessible SAN I suppose but like I said, it's just text so not too much in the way of storage.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Yeah I know.

I'm just doing alot of development on the side and decided to get really organized. Thought of using a CVS server to back up my stuff. Also having a nice ftp client (something like cuteftp, but linux based)

 

[ppdes]

Eclipse with Subversion for source control. Our home directories are on the network, so I assume they are backed up, but everyone avoids using them because they are slow and have very tiny space quotas. Worst case you'll just lose whatever you haven't checked in yet anyway, so no one worries. Unit tests are run before every check in. Other tests are run before a build gets moved to production.

 

[Patt]

Eclipse ... forced to use company standard Visual SourceSafe for CVS. Everything I do is backed up to tape nightly as well.

 

[KingGheedora]

.NET. Visual Studio 2003 to code, subversion or starteam for source control. Builds that move to QA, staging, and production are all done on a special machine called the build server. Buildsa re done from scratch, meaning everything necessary to build the project is checked out from source control into an empty folder. I use NAnt to build, run tests, create deployment packages (either zip files or .msi installers depending on the project), and label the code in source control with the version number.

You should read a book called "The Pragmatic Programmer".

 

[KingGheedora]

As a developer I write unit tests using a framework called NUnit. Those tests are run before checking code into source control, and also run by the NAnt build script when doing an official build. Our QA does their own manual tests on a testing environment. We have a development environment, but I rarely use it. I test mainly on my machine and then deliver to QA and development environments at the same time.

See if you can find a subversion server to use, or set up your own. It'll take a day or to to have it all set up. It's based on CVS but is supposed to be better.