Setting up a new developer computer

These steps are intended to accompany this dotfiles repo for setting up a new developer computer.

Package manager

The first thing you should do is install a package manager if your OS does not provide it:

• OSX: homebrew

• Windows: apt-cyg, chocolatey

• Linux: Aptitude (pre-installed)

Necessary applications

Next you'll want to install several key components, typically via the package manager (e.g. brew install git):

• git
• git bash-completion
• java development kits (JDK) - 6, 7, 8
• maven
• myrepos

You should also install an IDE:

• [Eclipse IDE for Java Developers] (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-developers/mars1)

Useful applications

There are many additional useful programs you can install to increase productivity:

Clipboard manager

• OSX: ClipMenu
• Linux: CopyQ

Background hider (great for screenshots)

• OSX: Isolator

Screen magnifier (great for presentations)

• Linux: Virtual Magnifying Glass

Enhanced terminal

• OSX: iTerm2
• Linux: terminator
• Windows: cygwin
• All: Zshell

Non-Safari web browser

• OSX: firefox or chrome
• Linux: Chromium

Dropbox (good for storing private configuration files, such as your SSH keys)

LibreOffice

Fiji 🐙

There are also many useful Eclipse plugins

• vrapper
• memory analyzer
• EditBox - with hinerm's Glasbey theme

Set up web accounts

• GitHub
• ImageJ wiki
• Log in to Gitter

Final steps

Clone dotfiles

1. mkdir ~/code
2. cd ~/code/
3. git clone https://github.com/ctrueden/dotfiles.git
4. git clone https://github.com/ctrueden/ctr-scripts.git
5. sh dotfiles/config-links.sh

Clone code

1. cd ~/code/
2. mr up
3. mr up

(yes, run mr up twice. First time fetches all related dotfiles repos. Second time fetches actual source code)

Set up your RSA keys, either:

• Move your existing RSA key (id_rsa.pub, id_rsa, config files) to ~/.ssh/

or:

• create a new key and link with GitHub
• create a SSH config file for the LOCI servers.
• Copy these files to a private DropBox folder for future use

Set Eclipse conveniences:

• Add ~/code/imagej/imagej/config clean-up and formatter preferences
• Show whitespace - typically just trailing space, ideographic space and tabs.
• Set Top Level Elements > Working Sets and create some basic working sets (e.g., ImageJ, Fiji, SciJava, SCIFIO)