Security Basics mailing list archives
Re: Advice for a efficient and productive software development environment?
From: bny <boneybastard () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:00:33 +0200
Hey, Thanks for the reply. Ive spawned thru some of it and it seems to be pretty good! I havent read a lot yet, but i'll advice any sysadmin/manager to give it a shot, they both point out really important aspects in terms of management that most people dont think of. Once again, thanks // Razi 2008/8/12 Alex Howells <alex.howells () 0wn3d us>:
Hi RaziIm working in a small software company and i've been thinking of redesigning the development environment, in terms of hardware/software. And was hoping that some of you might have some pointers that lead to a productive/efficient environment. I'ts rather unogranized at the time, so i thought of this: All software developers should have the same hardware in the development boxes. Setup a ghost server for the devteam, so that people can fetch images of different OSs/software environment depending on which OS they need to work in, in a specific project. I Recently encountered a situation when one member of the team had to switch OS, and it took a total of 3 days to set it up (including development environment, software and such), not so productive. (vmware is not an option). Setup a hudson server, development boxes acting as slaves for continious integration.Both 'Joel on Software' (Joel Spolsky) and 'Rands in Repose' have excellent suggestions on how to create an optimal development environment, and the former has several books out discussing how they do things at Fog Creek. Not just the environment, but also how to manage your software developers so they remain happy and productive and write 'rock star' code. I'd suggest giving both of them a look. Alex
Current thread:
- Advice for a efficient and productive software development environment? Razi Garbie (Aug 12)
- Hippa Compliance Checklist Groups (Aug 12)
- RE: Hippa Compliance Checklist Eggleston, Mark (Aug 12)
- Different Internet service providers Francisco Neira Basso (Aug 12)
- Re: Different Internet service providers Vu Anh Tu (Aug 13)
- Re: Advice for a efficient and productive software development environment? Alex Howells (Aug 12)
- Re: Advice for a efficient and productive software development environment? bny (Aug 13)
- Message not available
- RE: Different Internet service providers Andy Cuff (Talisker) (Aug 13)
- Hippa Compliance Checklist Groups (Aug 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Advice for a efficient and productive software development environment? bgree (Aug 12)