What technologies do you use as a professional developer?

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

partyboy690

Sparks wrote: »

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.

That's a pretty good read actually, I don't think it should be judged on a timescale as well. You can see it with people who is going to be a senior engineer or tech lead type and who isn't. It all boils down to those that do, the people who just work and do their job and those who influence. Those who influence makes decisions that influence the development process and those are the senior type.

It's like when you see an opportunity for a role "...3 years C++ experience required" that's not a good indicator of how good someone is with a technology, why not let the 1 year experience guy prove himself against the 3 years experience guy. I've seen it myself, using char* when std::string is clearly the better option, raw pointers with malloc/calloc when a simple shared_ptr would have done the job, allocating arrays on the heap when a vector is a much superior option. He may have been doing it 3 years but he's been doing it 3 years badly.

BrokenArrows

I would say my most commonly used tool is Google.

partyboy690

BrokenArrows wrote: »

I would say my most commonly used tool is Google.

Actuall scratch what I said, mine is probably Google too

jester77

BrokenArrows wrote: »

I would say my most commonly used tool is Google.

StackOverflow would be mine

Tar.Aldarion

jester77 wrote: »

StackOverflow would be mine

Googling stackoverflow <question>

punk_one82

Java, Eclipse, Notepad++, Cygwin, Windows 7, Ant, JUnit, Google, Spotify :P

mrkite77

My setup at work is a Linux box and iMac next to each other (linked via Synergy).

For IDEs:

Vim+ssh = web development
Android Studio = android development
XCode = iOS development

We use git for everything.

The programming languages I've used over the years: C, C++, Objective C, Java, Actionscript, Javascript, Ruby, Perl, PHP and Python.

I've been thinking about switching all future server glue to Go... but haven't done much yet other than some basic messing around with the language.

djmarkus

Stack 1:
Python
PyCharm
Django
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
MongoDB

Stack 2:
Visual Studio
C#/.NET 4
MSSQL
WCF
WPF
WiX and other various tools.


Needless to say. Stack 1 is my preferred choice (About 4x development velocity)

Perforce for SCM (FML)

c_man

Was working on a cross platform library til recently, nowadays I'm in Visual Studio land doing Windows client dev (still C++). Throw in Jenkins, SVN, Notepad++ ( ), python, bit of this, dash of that...

c_man

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:

Say it ain't so! Thankfully my workplace is pretty relaxed about that whole area (well what IT don't know, doesn't hurt right?!).

For instance I have Steam installed on my laptop, as long as I'm not running Civ5 during work time nobody cares.