Re: Best Development Tools

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a general best practice that has served me well over the years:
always, always, always develop with the same runtime/tools as production.
Why?  Because minor subtleties could cause production
inconsistencies/errors.  Not only the PHP runtime but also things like
Composer.

It is for that reason I do all my shell work via an SSH session into PASE
instead of my local shell (Mac user).

I use the browser-based cloud9/orion to edit IFS files.

I use ungit to visually manage my git in the IFS.  I used to be a "command
line only" git guy, but I can organize commits so much faster with ungit
that I had to stop my purist pursuit :-)

For some systems I work on I use SublimeText3 + SFTP plugin to edit files
on the IFS.  Works well.

On final note, if I were stuck on Windows I would use VirtualBox (or other)
and get a virtual instance of Ubuntu Desktop going so you can be in a
familiar desktop environment.

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Rob <rob.couch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Gang,
>
>     I know that I want to create a development environment on my partition.
>
>     I know I need to install Composer and Doctrine; maybe Symphony.
>
>     Are there any other tools I might want to install?
>
>     Is there something better that System i Navigator.
>
>     My primary development machine is a Windows 10 laptop; that is at work
> in the office.  But at home my primary is Linux, Unbuntu.
>
>     I am going to build 1 or 2 boxes for the office.  The previous
> developers used WebSmart from BCD Software To write most of the RPG.  So
> because of that, I am stuck with windows.  The WebSmart PML is a lot nicer
> to work with than directly with RPG.
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>
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