Hi, Roderik here, one of the founders of DataBrokerDAO. We would love to hear your comments and questions!

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You can replace Jenkins easily with https://www.bitrise.io, but i'm not sure imagemagick and ghostscript are installed there.

[Bitrise co-founder here] We have a fastlane integration step ;) That said imagemagick & ghostscript are not pre-installed, but you can install both with a simple script step. All of the integrations (https://www.bitrise.io/integrations) are open source and you can add your own with a Pull Request to our Step Library anytime. You can check out what's preinstalled on our VMs here: http://devcenter.bitrise.io/docs/virtual-machines-updates

Mostly speed, we have full chef cookbooks for our servers and vm's but developing on native ssd's is just faster.

At work I was looking for a way to write project documentation for several non-public projects. It was important for me to have a system that was versioncontrolled in GIT, written in easy to understand formatting for both technical and non-technical personel (markdown) and makes publishing effortless. The resulting documentation should also be easy to access for our clients, without resorting to getting them all an account.

In a presentation by Stephen Hay at the Mobilism 2012 conference I was pointed to dexy, an advanced tool for writing documentation in a lot of different languages, markdown being one of them. In this post I will describe how to setup dexy, and combine it with GitLab's webhook system to create a selfbuilding documentation system.

Check out http://dotfiles.github.com Most scripts have these bootstrap files, my dotfiles and more are based on this repo https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles with a very good setup script.

I'm a big fan of Vagrant but all our developers use MacBook Air's with 4GB memory and lots of different projects at the same time it's just a pain to use Vagrant.

We compensated this by using a few staging servers and using Vagrant if there are issues at this level (almost never btw)

Putting the remote host in the tab title is easy and included:

https://github.com/roderik/pivotal_workstation/blob/master/t...

As for the prompt, also included in the bash-it theme

https://github.com/roderik/bash-it/blob/master/themes/roderi... screenshot: https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/16780/35890/82d9d2fa-5290-...

I also use TotalFinder, but it seems this is one where my discipline didn't hold up, i installed it by hand :)

Eclipse should be easy, and IntelliJ is almost the same as phpstorm, the recipe for that is in the repo.

On linux it is even more easy, since most of the packages are in apt etc. Several recipes have a switch for use on our own servers and vm's: https://github.com/pivotal/pivotal_workstation/blob/master/r...

And there is nothing in the result that has anything to do with ruby, just chef and the recipes are in ruby. We use it for setting up our dev environments and servers for PHP websites. Although we use Capistrano for the actual site deployment and not Chef.