I am working on an SDK. As I release new versions I would like to produce a report of the differences in the API. This is not the differences in the code. Most of the code is not expected to be used directly. The public classes/methods is what I am interested in. Furthermore, we have adopted the convention that anything in a namespa...
I would like to implement/use-existing a cross platform configuration settings tool like about:config in Firefox. It would have to work on Windows and Mac. Are there any libraries or design patterns out there that people recommend? Also, if I were to use a library, it would have to be "free as in beer" and couldn't be a GPL license. Th...
I want to be able to choose the right branching strategy for most thinkable situations and organizations. So I'm looking for a extensive list of positive and negative effects of extending the use of code repository branches in a development organization. Please only post one pro or one con in each post, so that the voting system can he...
The Java distributed application I work on seems to munge together deployment, configuration, management, crash recovery, etc. I'm hoping to simplify these aspects of the application by separating them more cleanly, but I'm not sure I know where to draw the lines between them. Are there principles, guidelines, or best practices that wo...
I have a large php project that relies on two levels of config files. In my project folder I have a default.config.ini that is loaded and then merged with a site specific config file. At the moment the code is reading an environment variable PROJECT_CONFIG that points to the specific config file. This works fine for each developer wor...
I'm thinking sugest to my organization, to implement SVN for all users in my orgazination. What is the best form to implement that? What is the best tool to do this? What is the best process to implement this? I have any ideas to implement that. But I would like to hear some success stories, not to waste time on things that will not wo...
So I've got a pretty customized setup of dotfiles at this point, and I've been looking for a solution to keep things synchronized from machine to machine. I like the idea of having a ~/dotfiles dir (or similar) that contains a makefile that handles creation of symlinks. Move the dotfiles dir from machine to machine via rsync/unison/dvc...
I believe the Joel Test was written in 2000. It is time for an update to more align with modern times. I'll start: Do you use source control? changed to Do you have quality gates in place for each check-in? Many of the Joel Test assumptions are no longer true. I don't think we need to ask today if an organization uses source con...
I'm working on a combined web/client app that has branches for production, test, and development. I'm using svn post commit hooks to deploy updates to the production and test servers. The client app needs to point to different urls depending on production, test, or development. How can I manage this using subversion? Options I've thought...
I feel like I need a better defined framework for updating my SharePoint (MOSS 2007) application with custom code changes. I am creating wsp solution files with features and new types and such, but once those get tested and deployed, I feel like it's a bit of a leap of faith, and that makes me nervous and occasionally reluctant to deplo...
What packages do you use to handle command line options, settings and config files? I'm looking for something that reads user-defined options from the command line and/or from config files. The options (settings) should be dividable into different groups, so that I can pass different (subsets of) options to different objects in my co...
How I can install multiple versions of a library in Delphi or C++Builder? For example, I might want to be able to develop the next version of our app using the current versions of JCL and JVCL while still being able to compile the release version of our app using whatever version of JCL and JVCL were tested for that release. Using more...
For Asp.net Mvc project, I need to redirect every request to configuration page when user(should be admin of this website) visit this website at the first time. This operation like default login page(every request will be redirect to default login page if access denied). After user config the configuration file, Route table will be map...
Hello, 1) By default configuration elements have their connectionStringName attribute set to LocalSqlServer, and as far as I know, this attribute refers to connection defined in the element in machine.config file. a) I assume this connection string refers to database aspnetdb.mdf?! b) I understand aspnetdb.mdf is used in cases w...
Folks, We have a number of Source Safe databases that should be migrated to SubVersion. Is there a (tested and proven) way to migrate them with history ? Thanks Essam ...
I have a site content type that was used for a handful of lists throughout my site collection. In that content type, I describe an event receiver to handle the ItemAdding event. This works fine. Now I need to update the content type so that ItemUpdating is also handled. OTTOMH, I tried simply modifying the xml for my content type, si...
I am looking for a good config file library for c that is not xml. Optimally I would really like one that also has python bindings. The best option I have come up with is to use a JSON library in both c and python. What would you recommend, or what method of reading/writing configuration settings do you prefer? ...
I am doing my study's final year project and would like to do a little survey here. The topic is about configuration management and version control system for an industrial product (such as a piece of software, a furniture design, a car engine or even an aeroplane design etc...) 1.) What is you field of expertise (IT, engineering, manuf...
Hi, all. Here at Acme Widgets, we use an Avaya 8xxx series PBX. Some of the Vectors that are coded into the PBX are super important, in that if they're changed in the wrong way, pretty much all of our telephony arena applications and features go haywire (IVR, CTI, CRM, and ACD). There have been some recent discussions where we've disa...
Hello, I have been managing Subversion as an engineering document storage repository for my company. It is working fairly well, however I have a question about how MS Office 2007 formats are (should be) handled by Subversion. I'm looking at an Excel 2007 spreadsheet (extension .xlsx) in my working copy that Subversion has applied the ...