Vagrant, Chef, AWS CloudFormation. Writing your infrastructure as code saves you a ton of time and headaches.
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#32Answer Set Programming, specifically via the Potassco tools: http://potassco.sourceforge.net/
Combines the solver goodness of modern SAT and CSP solvers with the modeling-language richness of classic Prolog.
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#33For me it's been ElasticSearch.
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#34You're going to hate this answer, but after a couple of years of Node/Express development I'm really enjoying writing Asp.NET in C# using Visual Studio 2013.
Web Forms or MVC?
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#35AngularJS, Redis, Rails, ElasticSearch :)
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#36You're going to hate this answer, but after a couple of years of Node/Express development I'm really enjoying writing Asp.NET in C# using Visual Studio 2013.
I have been using Microsoft technologies for many years, and I don't believe I will change it. Microsoft technologies are quite mature.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
the world has moved over to javascript I'm not so sure about this. Python and Ruby seem to be just as popular as Node (if not more) for new projects, and as far as older projects go, PHP is still king.
My experience with Berlin startup scene is that Node.js took its niche and its popularity is not growing so rapidly now. There are more projects in Ruby and Python. I see there are couple more Scala jobs appeared and even saw 1-2 in Go.
I am wondering how you are tracking Berlin wanted technology stack?
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#40You're going to hate this answer, but after a couple of years of Node/Express development I'm really enjoying writing Asp.NET in C# using Visual Studio 2013.
I'd love to hear your reasons for this, as I've been looking at moving away from the Microsoft stack. Thanks!
I like the IDE (a lot). I'm not reinventing anything, just doing web development. Visual Studio gives you every tool you need to get the job done in one package that's frequently updated and runs stably and consistently (on my machine). The individual tools may not be better than their OSS equivalents, but as an overall ecosystem they are fairly well-tested and work together extremely well in my experience. NuGet is very cool and easy to use.
The end result for me has been that I spend significantly less time wondering why things aren't working (almost none, really) and more time actually writing and improving my code.
If you are doing something groundbreaking or way-out-of-the-box, Visual Studio is probably not a great choice. But for workaday web developers like me it's reliable, easy, and has objectively made me more productive compared to Node/Express/Backbone.