Re: Development Environment Workstations

Phlip
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:27:46 -0000

keith wrote:

> We are in the process of hiring new developer''s, and our current
> strategy is to allow developer''s to choose whatever computer and
> operating system they want.  So far we have 1 guy using a mac, 1 guy
> on Vista, 1 guy on vista running Ubuntu through VMWare, and one guy on
> Ubuntu.  Our QA hardware we deploy to is FreeBSD.  I''d love to get
> people''s opinion''s/experiences with working in a mixed
environment.

Technologically that''s heaven.

However, are you set up for pair programming? We use three keyboards, three
monitors, and two CPUs at one pair station. This system depends on a
coherent user interface, where we all know the same editor, and nobody
should get used to sucky keymappings (such as End keys that don''t go to
the
end of the line, or borrowing Caps Lock for Control...)

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