On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Matt Stumbaugh <[email protected]>wrote:
> Regarding editing over SSH, I've found the Eclipse plugin, Remote Systems > Explorer (Target Management Project), to be extremely helpful whether I'm > on Linux or Windows. On whichever OS, it provides a solid terminal > interface (which is particularly nice on Windows because it alleviates the > requirement for (and provides a Plan B to) using PuTTy/Xming (or whatever > you want for client/X server you might use). Each connection ends up in a > tab. Within the terminal, I haven't figured out or spent time getting X > forwarding going or setting up any customizations; copy/paste works fine > though and it is very easy to open multiple connections (which is generally > the only reason I really need X--to not have to authenticate repeatedly). > Within Eclipse, PyDev, ShellEd, CDT exceed my expectations as far as code > syntax highlighting and outlining. There is also (at least partial) Emacs > key bindings but I don't use them much. > +1 eclipse btw if u r an eclipse/vim fan try out http://eclim.org/ I use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux for multiple terminal sessions. You can detach and attach also - cool stuff. > Regarding virtualization, and stating the (probably) obvious, spending > some time getting up to speed on it would help me out with testing a set of > code on multiple OSs-- without having to reboot or remote desktop to a > different machine. The main thing is to be able to do the Windows specific > type activity from within Linux (like Netflix) without sacrificing > performance/quality and without having too much overhead to getting it > firing on all cylinders (which seems to always be a bit of a skeleton in > the closet). > netflix works without a hiccup in an xp vm for me. it's not even using much of a single core out of the 8 on my laptop & hardly any (ss)disk. it's about the only reason I keep windows around .. other than test validation or accessing the odd site that mandates IE. I usually just pause/resume my xp VM. In fact the only time I generally have to reboot it is when the OS needs to install updates. y'all should really try out virtualbox/vagrant - you will be addicted. imagine being able to pause, resume, ship around VMs, archive them, etc etc. Really cool stuff if you're into setting up clusters for distributed computing and that sort of thing. cheers, - Nimret Sandhu http://www.nimret.org
