Background: I’m a windows developer at MegaCorp(tm) and I am getting new hardware soon.
Question: Are there best practices around setting up my developer software installs?
Details: I’ve got my main IDE (Visual Studio/SQL Management Studio), but there are also tools that I’m testing out, additional tools I can’t live without, and future accomodations.
All my code is stored on a remote server in SourceSafe so I don’t need to really accommodate for that, but I’ll regularly jump into perl/python/php for separate/side tasks.
The only advice I can give you is set up your machine in a way you need it and you can work with and then save an image so that you can return to that state easily.