Restricted permissions workstations and development platforms/IDE's.

10    06 Jan 2016 18:51 by u/GreedoGrindhouse

Hey yall,

I normally use Netbeans or Visual Studio for my coding assignments and personal projects. I have a lot of downtime at work and would like a nice platform to mess around with Java, C++, and Python but I don't have administrator privileges. Although my supervisor would be cool with it requesting the department delegate a sys admin to install it or any attempts at a hack are a no-no. Right now I'm just using Putty to access the university's dedicated engineering server but I can't do anything involving GUI's with JFrame, Jpanel etc... .

Are there any web based services you could use or workarounds you can think of? Or anything not requiring an install from an executable?

Thanks

Edit: Update, just found out Netbeans is runable from a USB drive. I'll try that out but would still love to hear about other options you all might use.

6 comments

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I use koding.com for just this reason.

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Be a man and use notepad.

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I preferred Notepad++ when I was on windows, but your comment made me laugh out loud so thanks for that.

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Cloud9, for realz.

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You're using Putty, so the engineering server runs a Unix-alike OS? See if X11 is installed. If so, you can configure Putty to allow GUI windows from the engineering server to open on your desktop. You will also need Xming installed and running on your local machine. Not sure if you need admin privileges to install that.

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What you're looking for is Cloud 9 (http://c9.io). A cloud-based system running an IDE for your coding enjoyment.