Development environment?

[btiffin]

So, when you sit at a fresh computer, what are the first things you customize to get your preferred development environment?

I'll start with;

I'm a fan of Debian, have been for a long time. UNIX was built for building. So if I'm stuck using a Windows box (today's situation), the first change is to install Cygwin. Well first first is using IE to get FireFox, then hiding the IE icon away.

I don't use any of the X11 features of Cygwin so it might be called a MingW install. Cygwin followed by a fetch of rxvt for a nice console. Cygwin ships with vi, but I'll usually snag a Windows copy of gVim as well. After ensuring I've fetched all I need from the GNU Compiler Collection, rlwrap and a few other bits and pieces that don't come with the Cygwin base install, I start to breathe a little easier. Well once I remember to configure .inputrc, .vimrc and .bashrc to turn off the friggin terminal bells.

I prefer SVN for my local source storage, so that is the next fetch. I use command line svn. I still make sure I've got RCS/CVS installed just in case

Then it is REBOL. After that, I really start to feel at home and productive.

Then Cheyenne, a REBOL based web server. Don't need that when I'm not running my webhosting service, but I like to have it around for testing and it adds to my warm fuzzy.

Once all that is done, it is the side languages. Python, gForth, perl, Ruby, R, Unicon, Tcl/Tk, Ch, J and the hobby language of the week. This week it is TXL.

Cheers

[jernst]

I like linux for developing (usually either ubuntu or fedora). My favourites to devlop in are c/c++ and java but I also like to use perl/php. Like you when I get stuck with windows I use cygwin / mingw but instead of vi i like to use nano . Im finding myself also learning a bit of tcl/tk because its used in the simulation environment I've been working with lately. Ive never really used svn myself, mostly just use ssh and ftp to send my files around.

[Dragan]

Firist, I install Zend Studio for PHP, then JAVA Builder for java and Microsoft visual studio for C#

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

First Java SDK, then Cygwin (with GCC, xterm, vim, gVim, perl, python, CVS). Eclipse when I need to do more complicated Java projects. patch and rsync is useful as well.

[md]

I never use windows; but when I used to (years ago) I installed cygwin, and gnome ontop of cygwin. And then made that my default shell. It worked rather well

[rdrake]

Visual Studio 2008 when on Windows, gEdit + insert language's compiler/interpreter name here when on Linux.

[Vermette]

Right now I'm playing codemonkey for an app that runs in an OracleAS 10g container... I'm required to work in JDeveloper.

[wtd]

I find that the vast majority of things IDEs tend to do for programmers can be solved far more elegantly by just having a decent operating system and lots of smaller tools.

In other words: the OS should be your integrated development environment.

Shame so many of you feel constrained to use Windows.