What technologies do you use as a professional developer?

partyboy690

So by that I mean, platforms, build tools, test tools, language(s) continuous integration and also do you do server side development, client side development, web development etc....

For me I work exclusively on Linux, Redhat to be specific, do only server side development and lots of automated integration testing powered by Jenkins. Languages include C++, C, Python and Bash on the core product and Java powered integration testing. Really interesting stuff, absolute huge product, very complex still know little in the grand scheme of things and there's more to the product that I don't work on (SQL and Java is worked on in the core product too)

jmcc

On Linux, joe (text editor), Tcl, C, bash, some Perl, Python and a pile of paper notepads with details of why I added particular lines into 27K line SQL scripts.

Regards...jmcc

rokas456

I personally use Javascript, PHP, HTML5, CCS3, SQL, are the cores of web. Learn to use Wordpress and Weebly. They are very good content management systems(CMS). JAVA is handy but not necessary. Photoshop is vital.

magooly

Current Stack...
Oracle DB
Erwin Data modeller
Google's flyway (automate drop/create/insert SQL)
Eclipse IDE on Windows 7.
Cygwin emulator for my Unix shell fix
Java, Spring, JPA(Hibernate as implementation), JSF
JUnit test
Maven build tool to pull it all together.
Svn version control, nightly integration build with jenkins and sonar reporting.
Deployment to Tomcat6 on Red Hat 6.

Previous role..
Postgres DB
StarUML
bash db build scripts
C++ with KDevelop IDE / VIM on Ubuntu Desktop
Cxxtest, PHP, Joomla
makefiles to pull all that together
cvs version control.
Deployment to FreeBSD 6 Apache Webserver

partyboy690

jmcc wrote: »

On Linux, joe (text editor), Tcl, C, bash, some Perl, Python and a pile of paper notepads with details of why I added particular lines into 27K line SQL scripts.

Regards...jmcc

Is Joe a good text editor? unfortunately in the environment I work in the only real viable option is VIM and while VIM is really powerful and flexible it can be a pain to navigate the various function calls between source files.

Sparks

partyboy690 wrote: »

while VIM is really powerful and flexible it can be a pain to navigate the various function calls between source files.

How is ctrl-] and ctrl-T painful to jump between call and definition?
Or do you have vim and not have ctags (which is a downright broken installation really).

partyboy690

That's all well and good if you have root access and you can install and do what you want with your installation, unfortunately we can't touch machines because we use distributed build servers.

Sparks

(a) That's what sysadmins are for and (b) install it in your homedir if you have to, it won't impact the system as a whole or the code you're writing.

Skrynesaver

Oracle
Java
Perl
Bash
Groovy
Python
SVN
JBoss
Tomcat
SAP BusinessObjects
SSH (full understanding of which is more complex than you think)
and after that a "full" understanding of a shedload of protocols
Eclipse && Vim would be my preferred editors

I enjoy time spent in Perl and Bash most, but I'm gradually growing to accept Java as it matures into a usable technology

partyboy690

You've obviously never worked with an American megacorporation trust me working with ctags and our setup is a pain in the bloody ass, we have our own bespoke setup that doesn't play well with ctags, it's so unbelievably convoluted. I wish editing my .vimrc was easy but it's not, trust me it's absolutely painful, beaurocracy at its finest.

Sparks

partyboy690 wrote: »

You've obviously never worked with an American megacorporation

My day job is working on the DB2 kernel for IBM.
Using vim. And ctags. :P

BTW, apropos of nothing but just because it made me laugh, http://vim.sexy/

partyboy690

Sparks wrote: »

My day job is working on the DB2 kernel for IBM.
Using vim. And ctags. :P

BTW, apropos of nothing but just because it made me laugh, http://vim.sexy/

Well fair enough then you do know how American megacorporations can be :P I can't figure out our setup, it's just so convoluted it's beyond words, even the simple tasks can be painful, we're using Redhat 4 for godsake

Out of curiousity what is your night job? hahaha saving the universe from overpriced Oracle databases

Sparks

You think redhat's bad? Try Suse sometime, and no 11.x series or anything fancy for you SLAs and Legacy systems can be a royal pain at times...

And the night job is easy to describe:

jmcc

partyboy690 wrote: »

Is Joe a good text editor? unfortunately in the environment I work in the only real viable option is VIM and while VIM is really powerful and flexible it can be a pain to navigate the various function calls between source files.

It is not a fancy kind of editor and it is nowhere near the kind of power of Emacs but it is very simple to use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor

Regards...jmcc

Creamy Goodness

Xcode
Xctool
Reveal (this is what firebug is to web dev but for iOS development, you need this in your life if you're developing iOS apps)
Cocoapods
Vim
Team city
You track
Git
Objectify
Pixelmator
Balsamiq
Base camp
Slack
Quartz composer
Iterm + ohmyzh

rokas456

Is there any website online that consists of clients looking for freelance web designers/developers. And them posting the jobs and the requirements?

ChRoMe

rokas456 wrote: »

Is there any website online that consists of clients looking for freelance web designers/developers. And them posting the jobs and the requirements?

Sure but you will be competing for work with extremely cheap outsourced labour in India or Asia. I don't think the amounts are enough for a western country.

partyboy690

Sparks wrote: »

You think redhat's bad? Try Suse sometime, and no 11.x series or anything fancy for you SLAs and Legacy systems can be a royal pain at times...

And the night job is easy to describe:

I'd argue the night job is a lot tougher than working with legacy Unix systems we can use VM's powered by our own custom version of Redhat but I've never actually gotten that to fully install, we'd be able to mount our workspaces through NFS and use it that way but alas it's a pipe dream. I really like the resources I get at work, I have unlimited resources at my disposal(within reason but I can get everything I need) but tying those resources together is not easy when beaurocratic red tape holds everything back

Sparks

If it wasn't for the red tape, I'd mention vagrant and ansible...
(and yes, the night job is tougher at times You think crunch times are hard as a developer and then you have a kid and realise that you had it easy...)

partyboy690

haha I can imagine, you can quit your job. Not so easy to quit a baby :P

Sparks

Longest shift done as a developer during a crunch time for me was about 31 hours or so. Longest shift done as a daddy... well, so far it's been two years since I last had a full night's sleep...

partyboy690

Sparks wrote: »

Longest shift done as a developer during a crunch time for me was about 31 hours or so. Longest shift done as a daddy... well, so far it's been two years since I last had a full night's sleep...

Jesus that's an unhealthy amount of work to be doing, 31 hours straight? thought I had it bad when I had to come in for a weekend longest shift I've done was 9 to 7 and that was only because I was working on a bug that needed to be fixed pronto. I had an opportunity with IBM Cork as well, glad I didn't take it, sounds like slave labour although I'd imagine they're a decent company to work for like all big American companies.

ChRoMe

partyboy690 wrote: »

Jesus that's an unhealthy amount of work to be doing, 31 hours straight? :

Its also completely pointless, you lose any real cognitive ability well before 31 hours without sleep.

Sparks

ChRoMe wrote: »

Its also completely pointless, you lose any real cognitive ability well before 31 hours without sleep.

Yup, wouldn't have been my choice either, and I was starting to see things crawling up the walls out of the corner of my eyes at that stage. But we were in a pretty dire crunch spot trying to get a demo out the door for Mobile World Congress and I was the tech lead at the time so I didn't have much of a choice. (We did get the demo out in the end).

partyboy690

Sparks wrote: »

Yup, wouldn't have been my choice either, and I was starting to see things crawling up the walls out of the corner of my eyes at that stage. But we were in a pretty dire crunch spot trying to get a demo out the door for Mobile World Congress and I was the tech lead at the time so I didn't have much of a choice. (We did get the demo out in the end).

I hope you got a massive bonus for that :mad:

L.Jenkins

Sparks wrote: »

My day job is working on the DB2 kernel for IBM.
Using vim. And ctags. :P....

Mulhuddart? I worked on the WebSphere Commerce team for some time in support.

Sparks

Itzy wrote: »

Mulhuddart? I worked on the WebSphere Commerce team for some time in support.

Yup, though I don't have much contact with the websphere folk.

L.Jenkins

In my time there, we conducted more business with the WAS and RAD team than anything else. Any DB2 issues that sprung up on our queue was immediately redirected and that was the height of our interaction with DB2 sadly. Anyway, I could be making a move back to IBM, Galway again as a Developer pending an interview process.

rokas456

Would you any of such sites, iam just looking to build up my part folio

Tar.Aldarion

We use whatever we want. I use gedit for python, and xml. eclipse for android. OS is Ubuntu.
Use vi when I have to, which is painful.

rainbow kirby

Fedora, Python, Pylons or Flask (migrating our apps at the moment to Flask), Backbone.js, Oracle databases (for my sins), Lettuce, Selenium and nosetests for testing, most editing done in Sublime Text 2.

IRLConor

Current job:

ruby + chef + test-kitchen (rare forays into Rails)
occasional outbreaks of python
scattered showers of sh
lots of vagrant+virtualbox and AWS
Travis-CI + an internal CI tool
vim + git for everything (in iTerm2)
slack and zoom for talking to co-workers
developing on a Mac, production is a mix of Gentoo & Ubuntu

Aswerty

I really want to get out of the MS stack but currently using the following.

Languages:
C# mostly (web based stuff I use MVC)
Starting a project that'll require JavaScript, HTML, CSS (also have to use Telerik)

OS:
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2

Editors:
Visual Stuido (with Vim extension VsVim) for dev
Vim for heavy file editing
Sublime for throw away stuff

DB:
T-SQL
MS SQL Server
Entity Framework

Version Control:
Mercurial
BitBucket
KDiff3

Other:
LinqPad (REPL!)
Cygwin (just cos ls)
SCADA/HMI stuff
OPC stuff

ThrowinShapes

I'm currently a Front-end Developer

Mostly working with:
PHP
HTML
CSS
JavaScript

On:
Windows 7
OSX

Using:
Sublime Text 3
Grunt
WordPress
Laravel
Angular
Backbone
Git
oh my zsh
MySQL

moycullen14

DB -> Oracle
FrontEnd -> GWT
Languages -> Java/Spring/Hibernate
IDE Eclipse, Kepler
Dev OS: Windows 7. Corporate policy forbids linux :-(
SCM: svn
Moisc: perl, sh, vim via git-shell.

I'd trade the whole bloody lot for a linux environment with tomcat, apache, mysql & java if I could :-)

partyboy690

moycullen14 wrote: »

DB -> Oracle
FrontEnd -> GWT
Languages -> Java/Spring/Hibernate
IDE Eclipse, Kepler
Dev OS: Windows 7. Corporate policy forbids linux :-(
SCM: svn
Moisc: perl, sh, vim via git-shell.

I'd trade the whole bloody lot for a linux environment with tomcat, apache, mysql & java if I could :-)

What kinda bloody corporate policy is that? why would you forbid Linux when it's clearly a much better server than Windows, Unix servers > Windows servers, it's just a fact :P

Tar.Aldarion

Corporate policy forbids linux :-(

Corporate policy forbids linux :-(

Corporate policy forbids linux :-(

rainbow kirby

moycullen14 wrote: »

Corporate policy forbids linux :-(

*sadpandaface*

Someone is getting a massive backhander somewhere for that one.

moycullen14

partyboy690 wrote: »

What kinda bloody corporate policy is that? why would you forbid Linux when it's clearly a much better server than Windows, Unix servers > Windows servers, it's just a fact :P

You're right, of course.

The reason is simple. Sensitive personal and corporate data => intrusive security. Corporate IT that aren't comfortable with anything except windows and there you have it. You have a set of 'approved' software you can use and that's it. Mad, I know, as there are huge holes anyway. I'm surprised you're surprised, though. I would have thought it was common enough.

CreepingDeath

I'm a principal software developer, working on a large J2EE product, so my toolset is skewed heavily towards the enterprise side of things.

IDE: Eclipse, NotePad++
Databases : Oracle, DB2, Sql Server, PostGresql, HsqlDB, DB Visualizer, Hibernate
Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome
JMS: HermesJMS, MQ Series, Hornet MQ
Build tools : Apache Ant, DBUnit, Htmlunit, Canoo Web Test
App servers : JBoss EAP, WebSphere, WebLogic
SSO Systems : WebSeal, SiteMinder, iChain
LDAP : Active Directory, OpenLDAP, JXplorer
Security: ZAPProxy

PrzemoF

partyboy690 wrote: »

You've obviously never worked with an American megacorporation trust me working with ctags and our setup is a pain in the bloody ass, we have our own bespoke setup that doesn't play well with ctags, it's so unbelievably convoluted. I wish editing my .vimrc was easy but it's not, trust me it's absolutely painful, beaurocracy at its finest.

You mean you don't have access to .vimrc in your home directory?? Is it for real?? :eek:

moycullen14

PrzemoF wrote: »

You mean you don't have access to .vimrc in your home directory?? Is it for real?? :eek:

Really, you have no idea how fupped up a lot of companies are with respect to development software. In my experience, if the company is not primarily a development house (e.g. a bank or insurance company, say), they don't get the need for developers to have access to a wide range of resources. The 'corporate IT policy' is framed with call-center -type users in mind. You'll be told what version of which browser to use, and so on, Internet access will be seriously restricted and your desktop will be 'swept' for non-standard software.

Best thing to do? Tell them to go jump in a lake (or something like that) and get a job in a real company.

PrzemoF

moycullen14 wrote: »

Really, you have no idea how fupped up a lot of companies are with respect to development software. In my experience, if the company is not primarily a development house (e.g. a bank or insurance company, say), they don't get the need for developers to have access to a wide range of resources. The 'corporate IT policy' is framed with call-center -type users in mind. You'll be told what version of which browser to use, and so on, Internet access will be seriously restricted and your desktop will be 'swept' for non-standard software.

Best thing to do? Tell them to go jump in a lake (or something like that) and get a job in a real company.

I thought I'm in a bad situation when I had to ask IT to install wacom drivers for me (I have not had enough access right to do it). :eek:

CreepingDeath

Banks and insurance companies have to be paranoid about security.
If a hacker gets a foothold into some developers machine just because they installed some random tool from the net which was a repackaged version of a genuine tool, then a lot of bad things happen.
It's on the news every week with X thousand credit cards or customer details lost.

It's just hugely inconvenient to developers who perform software updates/installations/software trials at least once a week.

L.Jenkins

moycullen14 wrote: »

You're right, of course.

The reason is simple. Sensitive personal and corporate data => intrusive security. Corporate IT that aren't comfortable with anything except windows and there you have it. You have a set of 'approved' software you can use and that's it. Mad, I know, as there are huge holes anyway. I'm surprised you're surprised, though. I would have thought it was common enough.

moycullen14 wrote: »

Really, you have no idea how fupped up a lot of companies are with respect to development software. In my experience, if the company is not primarily a development house (e.g. a bank or insurance company, say), they don't get the need for developers to have access to a wide range of resources. The 'corporate IT policy' is framed with call-center -type users in mind. You'll be told what version of which browser to use, and so on, Internet access will be seriously restricted and your desktop will be 'swept' for non-standard software.

Best thing to do? Tell them to go jump in a lake (or something like that) and get a job in a real company.

PrzemoF wrote: »

I thought I'm in a bad situation when I had to ask IT to install wacom drivers for me (I have not had enough access right to do it). :eek:

I've worked for IBM and Yahoo previously. They don't call their IT Security team 'The Paranoids' for nothing. In majority of cases, limiting what a user can download is the way to go and I see a point.

moycullen14

Itzy wrote: »

I've worked for IBM and Yahoo previously. They don't call their IT Security team 'The Paranoids' for nothing. In majority of cases, limiting what a user can download is the way to go and I see a point.

It's all about data security, really.

It's uploading that causes the problem, not downloading. You can have all the firewall, virus protection you like but as long as someone has access to 'the cloud' - say, dropbox or google drive or aws then they can merrily upload 'sensitive' data to their hearts content. Encrypt it on the way out and no-one would ever be any the wiser.

IT security teams rely on the goodwill & professionalism of development staff, without it, their job is impossible.

moycullen14

CreepingDeath wrote: »

I'm a principal software developer, working on a large J2EE product, so my toolset is skewed heavily towards the enterprise side of things.

What's a principal software engineer do and how is it different from a 'senior' one or a 'lead'? I'm fascinated by these titles.

Sparks

moycullen14 wrote: »

What's a principal software engineer do and how is it different from a 'senior' one or a 'lead'? I'm fascinated by these titles.

I wouldn't get terrible hung up on titles to be honest, the companies make them up themselves and they're even less standard than a programmers dress code.
(Those who actually have a dress code that extends beyond "Dude. FFS. Pants.", you have my deepest sympathies). What'll be a lead in one place and a principal in another could be a CTO in a third or a dogsbody in a fourth.

CreepingDeath

moycullen14 wrote: »

What's a principal software engineer do and how is it different from a 'senior' one or a 'lead'? I'm fascinated by these titles.

It varies from company to company.
Our company have pay scales, career progression routes etc.
So there's a matrix of grades and the expected skill sets, soft skills etc per grade.

I've nearly 15 years experience in this company, and over 20 years altogether. You'd expect most developers to move to "senior developer" after only 3 years or so.

Sparks

CreepingDeath wrote: »

You'd expect most developers to move to "senior developer" after only 3 years or so.

Which is a big part of why the "senior" bit in the title isn't worth what it should be. This is a good read on what the title should mean, but doesn't.

partyboy690

PrzemoF wrote: »

You mean you don't have access to .vimrc in your home directory?? Is it for real?? :eek:

I do have access to it but what I can make it do is the other question it's hilarious our Linux development environment is rigidly locked down but not really for security reasons, but more so to do with bad planning on the part of the build guys, working with legacy Unix systems and distributed build environments. Once change for you can affect the whole build environment - well that's they're thinking - so we can't install software on the build servers and the default software is lacking, plus the build servers are based on Redhat 4 and etc.... these things are probably possible, it's just not worth breaking through the red tape

Also it's hilarious, our Windows machines - ie work laptops - are completely free for us to do what we want with them so we can install anything and everything, they trust us to not be idiots and the likes of dropbox and google drive aren't blocked too. Just if we used them we'd be in mighty big trouble