Windows Development Environment

Cygwin

Install Cygwin with packages:

• ssh
• git
• tmux
• vim
• inconsolata fonts
• mintty

Mintty

Grab the .minttyrc file from the dotfiles repo.

Other Development Tools

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• ChefDK

ChefDK

Add chefDK to your PATH.

For us in Cygwin, add the following to your .bashrc file:

alias chef="c:/\opscode/\chefdk/\bin/\chef"
alias berks="c:/\opscode/\chefdk/\bin/\berks"

Install Vagrant plugins:

• vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf
• vagrant plugin install vagrant-scp

Chef recipes

Clone the cookbooks repo: https://github.com/namabile/cookbooks.git.

Run berks install.

Other Tools

• Slack
• Google Drive
• Dashlane

PgPass File

Set create ~/.pgpass file for storing postgres and redshift passwords. Ensure the file has 0600 mode premssions.