Development is a craft and like every craftsman has his favorite tools here are my favorites.
I would present this in a interview style post. Here we go.
What hardware you use?
I use a Dell Inspiron 4GB Ram, 1 GB ATI graphics laptop. It has been 2 years and still it works just fine.While I do tweak my software to utilize the maximum of it. I have a Nokia E5 smartphone,its no Android or iPhone but this beast does its work pretty nicely. Also the camera quality is very nice.I also use a Logitech ultra-flat keyboard.I am planning on buying a new headphone and a 24 inch LED/LCD in future.
What software?
I use both Linux and Windows so i will be splitting this answer in two parts.
For Linux:
I use Ubuntu for almost everything, was a fedora user before but switched to Ubuntu because everything just works and development takes enough time so i don't have time tweaking and spending times on Fedoras and Archs.
On Windows 7:
What services you use?
I would present this in a interview style post. Here we go.
What hardware you use?
I use a Dell Inspiron 4GB Ram, 1 GB ATI graphics laptop. It has been 2 years and still it works just fine.While I do tweak my software to utilize the maximum of it. I have a Nokia E5 smartphone,its no Android or iPhone but this beast does its work pretty nicely. Also the camera quality is very nice.I also use a Logitech ultra-flat keyboard.I am planning on buying a new headphone and a 24 inch LED/LCD in future.
What software?
I use both Linux and Windows so i will be splitting this answer in two parts.
For Linux:
I use Ubuntu for almost everything, was a fedora user before but switched to Ubuntu because everything just works and development takes enough time so i don't have time tweaking and spending times on Fedoras and Archs.
- Writing and Coding: Vim and Sometimes (Nano/Gedit)
- Browser: Chromium and links(on command line mode)
- Music: Clementine
- Video : Vlc
- UI Design: Qt Designer
- Terminal: Konsole with tmux.
- Chat/IRC: Skype, Pidgin, Irssi
- Desktop Environment: KDE
- PDF reader: Okular
- Server: LAMP Stack, Also use nginx sometimes.
- Preferable Language: Python and C, also sometime bash and Perl(learning)
On Windows 7:
- Music: Winamp
- Chat: Skype, Google talk
- Image editing: Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop
- Browser: Chrome
- Cloud storage: Dropbox, Google Drive
- Utilities: Daemon-tools, Putty, 7zip,Adobe Reader, MS Office 2010
- Virtualization: Vmware workstation 8
- Development and Coding Works: Simple SSH into my Linux server running in the Virtualbox.
What services you use?
- Code Hosting: I mostly use Github, Google Code to host my code. Eyeing on Heroku and RedHat Open Stack for hosting my apps as well.
- Social Networking: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn
- Geek Social Networking/Learning space : Stackoverflow, Linux Reddit and Hacker News
- Cloud Services: Google Drive and Dropbox.
Dream Setup:
I would like to have a 3-monitor setup with a beast running atleast 24GB of Ram and fastest Processor of that time.I would also have a dedicated Media Server plus a File Server as my laptop gets old.
Will be getting a sexy Keyboard as the one shown in Die Hard 4.0.
Also would like to have A DSLR and a nice Android Tablet, probably Nexus 7 or Galaxy Tab.
Also I would like to use something more beautiful than OS X and at the same time enjoy the freedom of Linux Stack.My Target is to build an amazing service for web and I am working on it. Will be posting as about it as i progress, Just one thing i can tell is that I would base it on Open Source and will contribute to it.