For the first two projects in this class, I did all of the work on my laptop. This time around, My partner (Felicia Hopperstad) and I decided to trade the 12.1" screen on my laptop for the two 24" monitors on my gaming computer. I'm currently running 64 bit Windows 7 beta. setting up the developer environment was a breeze. We were able to keep our project repository on a remote server courtesy of Adam McElwee. This made it easy to upload the latest version onto my laptop for any quirky things we needed linux for (ex: pydoc wouldn't write TestMain.py in windows for some reason).
We used notepad++ to write code and cygwin/minTTY for all of our terminal needs. The multi-monitor setup proved to be quite useful for coding. The extra real estate made it easy to have multiple windows side by side. I found it hard to go back to a smaller desktop space when I started work on my graphics project the next day, which I can only do on my laptop at the moment.
Before I get going on the next project I'd like to get eclipse up and running and start using a full blown IDE. The refactoring tools and helpful keyboard shortcuts avaliable make writing code a breeze. I'd also like to get ubuntu running in windows 7 on a virtual machine. Adam told me he got it going on vmware server, so I'll probably get that set up as well.
Continuing the game of "musical programming partners" that I've been playing with Felicia, Adam and Joel, it looks like I'll be paired up with Joel Gardner for project 4.
p.s. notepad++ is decent but its definitely not perfect. If someone has a suggestion for a different text editor that does syntax highlighting etc I'd love to know about it so I can check it out. Leave a comment!
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emacs. emacs is awesome. You just got to tweek it some to get it to run really well.
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