software

Firefox is a great browser and is also a great development tool in itself. There are some problems though with the numerous extension available to developers. They are a great resource when programming but they slow down (and in some scenarios they might even break) our normal web browsing.

So the idea is to have a normal Firefox installation to use as our browser and then a separate install (and profile) used only for development purposes. This way we can install tons of development related addons without worrying about slowing down our normal browsing.Read more

Following with the series I will introduce in this chapter Cygwin.

Cygwin is an excellent collection of Unix utilities and programs ported to Windows. While its ‘emulation‘ of an Unix like environment is quite good I actually don’t use it. I install it just for the helpful utilities it has.Read more

Disclaimer: This will be a series of posts dedicated to document my current development setup. This setup tries to be the one of a Ninja. It won’t end up with a bunch of boring application windows typical of a bald engineer. It also won’t be a group of black terminal windows running vi as a pseudo operating system like the average geek wannabe.Read more

Source code editing and programming tools in general are one of those things I like to be up to date with, you never know when you’re going to find a killer tool which will boost your productivity.

For a couple of years I keep hearing about an awesome editor for Macs called TextMate. People even comment on forums and blogs that they are thinking to switch to Mac just to use it.

Well, I switched to Mac a few weeks ago and one of the first things I installed was this TextMate editor. Given all the hype around it I thought it was going to be my new favourite editor.Read more

Go to the PuTTY homepage and download PuTTY, PuTTYgen and Pageant. Put them in an easily accessible directory like %PROGRAMFILES%\Putty

Launch puttygen.exe and click on Generate, then move your mouse in the space below the progress bar to create some entropy for the key randomness. Once the key is generated lets complete the available fields:Read more