Comments on: Development Setup

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:52:57 +0000

@Venkat WAMP is surely good option for developer sandbox, it’s one installer and works fine. I use it for some developers now, but eventually everyone would move to Linux except designers
Our developers do various things, not just Flash/Flex. That’s kind of team I want to build who understands Web and should be able to work on various technologies. There are some experts, who know all but expert at any one of things.
Thanks
-abdul

By: venkat

venkat — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:36:26 +0000

Hi ,
Any thoughts on WAMP?
I guess that will help create a nuetral setup with mysql apache and php.
And eclipse with flex builder plugin might be one that you would like to consider.
Linux for many developers might be too much to deal with.. Especially because most flex devs are people moving from FLASH background.
Thanks,
Venkat

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:04:23 +0000

Hey,
This is really a nice and quite informative post about the recommended setup. It specially helps me a lot as I am a beginner with AS3 and Flex, but also love the Linux platform at the same time and was looking to find a way to have both in one place, rather than going dual boot.
And yes, each developer having his/her local sandbox surely helps by leaps and bounds.
I can vouch for this cos, currently the place I am in ..not even one developer has a complete local environment which causes frustration,headache and loads of time wastage.
Thanks you, again for the above post.
Wish you all the best in your new en devours.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:42:50 +0000

Hey,
Watz up with u and Yahoo! 2 don’t seem to be together for more than some months
nyways, do remember wat we chatted abt the other day…am still game for that
Best of luck and do keep in touch.
Abhishek

By: Debabrata Acharjee

Debabrata Acharjee — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:58:59 +0000

Hey Abdul,
Its really a news for me!I liked the idea of going back to the city you belong.It will definitely provide you more satisfaction and on the top of it you would be able to be around your parents when they really need you.
All the best,
Deb

By: Tarun Dua

Tarun Dua — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:06:08 +0000

All of it makes sense. Separate MySQL VM makes a lot of sense when one realizes the kind of assumptions developer’s can make. Only for a moment I thought you should have combined Apache and MySQL on one VM. I would add a bind9 DNS+ a DHCP server with dynamic reverse DNS configured to the list. To the e-mail server I would add an internal GNU mailman. What do you need Active Directory/LDAP for , un-less you want to manage central authentication and mess with Samba (which is increasingly difficult with Vista) or need have a central corporate addressbook served from directory. Wonder if you want to try out Kolab for shared calendering, addressbooks and other groupware goodies. Actually you can have a VMWare Server running on 1 or 2 central boxes which developers can use with VMWare Server’s client if their machines are not powerful enough. But your world looks very good even without the things I am suggesting. -Tarun

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:03:22 +0000

Get rid of Linux! Use Windows Server System 2008 and SQL Server 2008. I know I know the usual exclamation ” Holy crap!” But trust me it will save lot of time and prevent tons of headache.
You will be able to concentrate on product development rather wasting time how to figure out mundane things that we take for granted in Windows.
Check out technet.microsoft.com for more information.

By: Arun.P.C

Arun.P.C — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:10:08 +0000

Hi Abdul,
Just wanted to know what virtualization platform you are going to use? That becomes all the more important if you are going to rely on virtual machines for all your VMs.
Thanks,
Arun.P.C

By: saumya

saumya — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:10:47 +0000

Hi Abdul,
Nice to get you back. I am actually missing the tweets and sometimes thought to DM you but for one reason or other could not.
Congratulations and hope you all the best for whatever you chose to do.
The thing most interesting thing here is I am also thinking in the same line as you. But I think I will take some time for that.Its always good to be in a place where you can concentrate more on the work and grow. Now world has shrunk a lot and there is nothing impossible from anywhere. Its better to be placed well and healthy so as to maximise the efficiency.
Tweet often, it shortens the distance.
All the best.

By: saumya

saumya — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:24:12 +0000