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Is a company order to switch to a certain IDE a red flag?

I recently joined a rapidly growing startup. In the past 3 months the development team has grown from 4 to 12. Until now they were very laissez-faire about what developers used to do their work. In ...
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Is something like coderunner possible on PC? [closed]

I'd give my firstborn's left arm for something like this http://krillapps.com/coderunner/ Yes, I know, executing unknown code may be hazardous to your health, but I'm quite capable of reading some ...
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Efficient coding in Visual Studio (or another IDE), with touch typing

Moving the cursor to another position in code is one of the most frequent actions when coding. I don't write my programs from the beginning to the end, like a letter. However, moving the cursor ...
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4answers
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How much time should I devote to my toolchain?

I'm a bit of a tool nut and I'll often spend as many as 6-8 hours a week finding new tools, improving my existing tools by writing plugins or adapters or playing around with new tools to see if I like ...
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Study guide for learning JavaScript programming from scratch [closed]

Recently my girlfriend decided to switch career and invest on programming. (Wow, I must admit I was a good influence to her). I suggested her to learn JavaScript as this language evolves a lot and ...
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Do the scattered tools and lack of rich IDE makes Ruby and Python only suitable for hobbyists? [closed]

I am not against Ruby and Python, but this question evolved from my own experiences with these languages. There are a lot of commonly needed tools scattered everywhere and there is no center stage of ...
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8answers
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How can current IDEs improve the development experience? What secondary tools should be primary?

A modern IDE wouldn't be taken seriously if it didn't have a good editor with syntax highlighting, comprehensive warnings, and a source-level debugger. And there are many more tools/IDE features that ...
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446 views

Is anybody using graphical tools for doing software development? [closed]

Is anybody out there using graphical tools for doing software development instead of (or in addition to) writing code? Yahoo! Pipes would be a simple example. People have been talking about ...