> On Dec 23, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Chaos Golubitsky <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 23 Dec, 2013 at 07:12:14 -0800, Corey Quinn wrote:
>> 
>> What are you developing at this scale that would have serious
>> performance issues? Most intro to programming type classes don't get
>> into performance intensive stuff until much later.
> 
> That's not the problem --- the webservice itself is small, but people
> like to use big tools for development.  

If they can run those locally on whatever they have, the next step would be a 
VCS to get that code to AWS or similar. 
> The part i'm trying to find a
> good solution for is the interface between a person sitting at a keyboard
> (of some old, diverse piece of hardware, with diverse expectations about
> development tools) and a test environment for that person which will
> most likely yield code that also runs when other people try it.
> 
> Right now, we write unit tests which will run well on Ubuntu that we've
> configured to run under AWS or virtualbox, the unit tests don't run
> on everyone's desktops because of path issues, dependencies, database
> credentials, etc, so people either complain (and we debug the unit tests
> for every environment) or don't test code.

Meet my friend Jenkins. :-) Have it watch the VCS from a central (beefy) point 
and run builds against student commits?
> 
> Chaos
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