MachineSetup - simnova/webdevdocs GitHub Wiki
Development Machine Setup:
- Install Windows 8
- Windows Update, turn on for all windows products
- Synaptics Touchpad for Windows 8
- Visual Studio 2013 (MSDN)
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- Azure
- SDK : Azure SDK
- Tools: Azure Diagonstics Manager CloudBerry Explorer
- SQL Server Developer Edition (MSDN)
- Office Professional Plus 2013 64bit (MSDN)
- Visio 2013 (preview) 64 (MSDN)
- Graphics:
- Adobe CS6
- PNG Compression : PNG Gauntlet
- Network Utilities: Fiddler4
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- Source Control:
- Tortoise SVN
- GIT :
- GitForWindows (choosing run git from windows command prompt, when asked, everything else default settings)
- then Tortoise GIT (default settings)
- Developer Productivity Tools : Resharper 8, IIS Express Websie Here, Node & Ruby, Image Optimizer extension
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- Communications : Skype, Trillian
- Screen Capture : SnagIt, Camtasia Studio
- Password Generation : PWGen-win
- Log Analysis : LogParser
- Comparison : Beyond Compare, SQL Compare, P4Merge
- File System Sync : Free File Sync
- File System File Size Analysis ; WinDirStat
- FTP : FileZilla
- Music : iTunes
- Browsers : Chrome, FireFox
- Browser Plugins :
- Compression Software : 7-Zip
- Cisco VPN
- Browse to the Registry Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\CVirtA
- Select the DisplayName to modify, and remove the leading characters from the value data upto "%;" i.e.
- For x86, change the value data from something like "@oem8.inf,%CVirtA_Desc%;Cisco Systems VPN Adapter” to "Cisco Systems VPN Adapter”
- For x64, change the value data from something like "@oem8.inf,%CVirtA_Desc%;Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows” to "Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows”
- Try connecting again
- SVN: *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store [Bb]in [Oo]bj *Re[Ss]harper* *.suo *.user
- Testing Web Pages :
- Budget: Spoon.net
- Full Featured: BrowserStack
- Bug Tracking : YouTrack Hosted
- Source Control : Github
- Task Management : Trello
- Site Uptime Monitoring : Pingdom
- Speed Testing : WebPageTest.org
- CSS Checking : CSS Lint
- Wireframes : mockingbird
- Notes Etc : Evernote
- User Testing : UserTesting.com
- Testing Email : Litmus
- Compression Software : 7-Zip
- Cisco VPN
==== FIX : making CiscoVPN work on windows 8: ====source
Open Registry editor by typingregedit in Run prompt
- Browse to the Registry Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\CVirtA
- Select the DisplayName to modify, and remove the leading characters from the value data upto "%;" i.e.
- For x86, change the value data from something like "@oem8.inf,%CVirtA_Desc%;Cisco Systems VPN Adapter” to "Cisco Systems VPN Adapter”
- For x64, change the value data from something like "@oem8.inf,%CVirtA_Desc%;Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows” to "Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows”
- Try connecting again
- SVN: *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store [Bb]in [Oo]bj *Re[Ss]harper* *.suo *.user
Services:
- Testing Web Pages :
- Budget: Spoon.net
- Full Featured: BrowserStack
- Bug Tracking : YouTrack Hosted
- Source Control : Github
- Task Management : Trello
- Site Uptime Monitoring : Pingdom
- Speed Testing : WebPageTest.org
- CSS Checking : CSS Lint
- Wireframes : mockingbird
- Notes Etc : Evernote
Additional services:
- User Testing : UserTesting.com
- Testing Email : Litmus