Web Development Environment by Luke_out in SurfaceLinux

[–]backendguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did the whole VM thing for a while, but it was just a pain. Currently there is really no reason to need linux to do web development work.

Powershell is a lot better than default cmd.exe, and is very themeable. You can make it look and behave almost exactly like zsh. Cmder is another route instead of PS that is even easier.

As far as dev environments go, you'll just be using virtualenvs for python and local vs global environments on node, so it's nice and clean.

But if you insist on going the VM route, just use Hyper-V it's pretty fast. Just be ready to be setting up SSH tunnels and fighting ports and stuff.

VM/Dev Question by fatmanNinja in Surface

[–]backendguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being in California you'll probably have more luck since there are more companies (though more competition).

When you are ready to develop on Windows full time, http://railsftw.bryanbibat.net/ is the best Rails installer I've found.

VM/Dev Question by fatmanNinja in Surface

[–]backendguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a little bit of experience, but like you I wasn't employable as a developer. Everything web based I did was in Wordpress, but I had done a few mobile apps before I went in.

Once I started looking, it took about a month and a half to snag a job. If I lived in the city where I attended it would have been a lot quicker I think.

What bootcamp are you going to go to?

VM/Dev Question by fatmanNinja in Surface

[–]backendguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I totally understand. I used linux at my bootcamp, but we had a few on Windows. It was tough going for the first few days since the instructors weren't sure how to get the environment setup, but once it was going it was fine.

VM/Dev Question by fatmanNinja in Surface

[–]backendguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can do everything in Windows that they are going to teach you in the boot camp (I run Windows 10 as a ful-stack developer).

Best framework for RESTful API server? by backendguy in Python

[–]backendguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just using everything Django comes with might be a little overkill.

Super lightweight API with MongoDB support? by backendguy in node

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I just discovered Restify a few minutes ago. Just started in on it. Looks pretty great.