A Productivity Enhancing Perl Environment

A Productivity Enhancing Perl Environment

London -- 30th November 2013

Paul Johnson

@pjcjohnson

www.pjcj.net

Introduction

Introduction

This is what works for me
Some of it might work for you
Assumptions

You are writing (a lot of) code
You have control over your environment

Environment - Desk

Image credit: http://www.everythingsimple.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/L-shaped-desk.jpg

L shaped desk
Comfortable chair

reclined - 135°

Environment - Monitors

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Dual 24" monitors

Dell

Environment - Keyboard

Image credit: http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products/xl/016601/4/logitech_g15_v2.jpg

Decent Keyboard

Logitech G15 keyboard
Comfortable
Programmable keys
Multimedia keys
Backlit
Ins Home Del End

Environment - Mouse

Image credit: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RSBPE65JL._SX342_.jpg

Decent mouse

Logitech MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse

Environment - Speakers

Image credit: http://brain.pan.e-merchant.com/7/3/08513437/l_08513437.jpg

Good speakers

Bose Companion 3

Environment - Headphones

Image credit: http://www.notape.net/files/eqs4/phseer0041/PHSEER0041-317c159.jpg

Or good headphones

Sennheiser HD 25

Sound good
Don't leak sound
Comfortable

Hardware

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Quiet
Lots of RAM
SSDs

Operating System

Image credit: http://seaofgeek.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/science_-_rube_goldberg_machine.png

Work in a Virtual Machine

Why

Abstracts you away from the hardware and OS
Easy to snapshot and roll back
Easy to copy to another host
Easy to set up - script / copy and paste instructions

Virtualbox

Host

Whatever

Client

Ubuntu

Window Manager

Window Manager

Tiling

notion
awesome
xmonad

Terminal Emulator

Image credit: http://www.zebpedersen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iTerm_icon_large.jpg

urxvt
xterm
iTerm2

Terminal Multiplexer

Terminal Multiplexer

tmux

powerline

https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline

tmuxinator

https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator

screen

Shell

Shell

zsh

ohmyzsh

Font

Image credit: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/incoshow.png

Monospace programming font
Inconsolata

http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts

Colour Scheme

Image credit: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/img/solarized-yinyang.png

Solarized dark

http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

f.lux

adjusts colour temperature based on time and location
reduces eye strain and helps you sleep more easily

Source code control

Git

aliases
tig

Editor

Image credit: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Vimlogo.svg/605px-Vimlogo.svg.png

Vim
Emacs
Padre

Vim - Plugins

Image credit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/images/spl_hepatitis_c_virus.jpg

pathogen

to control plugins

Vim - Plugins

Vim - Plugins

colors-solarized

Vim - Plugins

Vim - Plugins

airline

powerline for vim

Vim - Plugins

Vim - Plugins

YouCompleteMe

completion engine

Vim - Plugins

Vim - Plugins

Fugitive

git integration

gitgutter

shows changed line in gutter

signature

display marks in gutter

Vim - Plugins

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tagbar

display tags in a sidebar

NERD_commenter

add and remove comments in various languages

NERD_tree

filesystem explorer

Vim - Plugins

Image credit: http://www.primeradx.com/assets/infectious-disease-PrimeraDx.jpg

snipMate

snippets á là TextMate

surround

treat text surrounded by delimiters as an object

gundo

manage vim's undolist

Vim - Plugins

Vim - Plugins

devel-cover

show coverage information in gutter

Connections

Image credit: http://www.openssh.com/images/openssh.gif

ssh

config
port 443

mosh

for dodgy connections

Putty

Windows machines
registry / Filesystem

Communications

Communications

mutt
irssi

twirc

Conclusions

Conclusions

Be more productive and enjoy developing more by customising your environment