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Managing software compatibility between multiple development environments?


I'm setting up new computer (Windows 8 Pro x64) with development tools needed for my new job. Whereas in past positions I was working in mainly one environment, I now am developing across those environments. After spending the last 12 hours digging through my registry to find out how an opensource BI/Analytics tool screwed up my local install of SAP among other things.

Currently I'm working on projects in the following environments:

  • SAP
  • JRuby, Rails
  • Python
  • R
  • CSS, Bootstrap
  • VB.NET

For each of these projects I've got several tools and git repos to keep track of. I'm new to the development world coming from the Analytics/Business Process Management one. Suggestions for any utilities, tools, best practices, etc... for managing these environments on my workstation would be welcomed. I use GitHub and other PM tools for the projects themselves but its the environments I need to keep track of now.

Thanks,

-J


Solution

  • Why don't you use VMWare Workstation 9.0.

    It's perfect, and I use it for several environment too..

    Hope this helps.