I have to program in a very diverse set of environments:
1. Web stuff with Django using Eclipse
2. C/C++ using either Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2005 or GCC, with Windows being my target
3. Objective C for the iPhone (on Mac OSX)
4.  Arduino C for my Arduino board
This leads to three problems:
First of all, the systems [...]

I use a MacBook, but until recently, ran Windows on it. However, I’m writing an iPhone version of one of my apps, so I had to put on Mac OS X. The bulk of my development is still in Windows, so I bought 4 GB RAM, put up VMWare and run virtual windows most of [...]

Sometimes when programming, it would be great if one did not have to do two tasks:
 

Research APIs or Information
Write short functions with clearly defined outputs and inputs

 
If one has a team, then occasionally, this gorilla-monkey style of development can lead to very fast results. How it works is this:
 
Step 1
 
The gorilla coder plans [...]