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My Zenoss Development Environment – Part 3

In Part 1 of this series we discussed getting an initial Zenoss environment checked out and running on a Mac OS X or Ubuntu system. In Part 2 we discussed how to configure Eclipse to use the Zenoss source. In this part, we’ll discuss how to handle day-to-day operations such as branch management and working

My Zenoss Development Environment – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series we discussed getting an initial Zenoss environment checked out and running on a Mac OS X or Ubuntu system. In this part, we’ll discuss configuring Eclipse to use this environment. Mac OS X Prerequisites Install Eclipse Classic 3.5.x Mac Cocoa 32-bit. Ubuntu Prerequisites Install the Sun Java JDK. Why?

My Zenoss Development Environment – Part 1

Over the past 18 months the developers at Zenoss have used a variety of development environments and methods to productively work with Zenoss, but there are a lot of best practices that have emerged out of this diversity. I develop Zenoss primarily on Mac OS X, with some work done on Ubuntu when necessary. I

My Zenoss Home Office

My work environment at Zenoss involves working out of my home part of the time, and then spending a week or so a month at our Austin office. I had originally planned on using my Mac Pro and large monitor as my workstation and then just using the Mac OS X built-in Screen Saver tool

Transitions…

The last week of March brought about some major changes in my life. They were planned transitions, although the exact timing just happened to work out to be the same week. On March 24th I finished my undergraduate degree. I had been working on it for four years non-stop, plus a couple of semesters earlier