What is your favourite/ideal development environment?

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Published on 2010-12-14T13:32:06Z Indexed on 2011/03/19 8:18 UTC
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If you could describe your ideal development environment, what would it be? There are numerous things to take into consideration, including but not limited to:

Hardware
Software (Operating System of Choice, Paid vs. Free Software, ...)
Physical Environment (lighting, open-plan, location, ...)
An endless supply of coffee...
...

In other words, if you could tell your company what they could do to make your development experience there better, what would it be?

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