Some Eclipse plugins are mandated by your environment. The appropriate source code management plugin, for example - and I'm not interested in those. Some provide useful enhancements, but in a specific niche. I'm not interested in those. Some are great, but cost money. I'm not interested in those. Some were really useful on older versi...
So I have a backlog of features and we are about to get started on a sizable project. I am working on defining the structure of our sprints and I'm interested in the communities feedback. What I'm thinking is: One day sprint planning Fill the backlog and figure out what each dev will go after this sprint Three weeks of development ...
I would much prefer to do this without catching an exception in .LoadXml() and using this results as part of my logic. Any ideas for a solution that doesn't involve manually parsing the xml myself? I think VB has a return value of false for this function instead of throwing an XmlException. Xml input is provided from the user. Thanks...
I've been a Unix-based web programmer for years (Perl and PHP). I'm also competent with C and C++ (and bash and that sort of sysadmin sort of stuff) in terms of the language itself. I've never had a problem learning a new language (I mucked around with Java a few years ago and whilst I could write it I just didn't like it as a language...
Hi, I used to work as a software developer in the past, mainly using C and Java professionally and then spent 1.5 years away from a development role trying the "other" side of things (like project management etc.) I have now decided that I would like to get back to development but am struggling to find a role as recruiters and companies...
I've been applying agile for a few months now on my project. However we are seeing a steady problem with our iteration burndowns. We aren't hitting zero each iteration. The tasks remaining are QA tasks. Things like writing tests, testing, etc. Now, there is some organizational resistance to the "cross-functional team" idea of agile....
I'm asking this because I'm currently in the position of fixing bugs that are found in modules written by other people who are still working in the company. My personal belief is that everyone should clean their own mess because they know better what they wanted to do in those modules, and usually if someone from "outside" comes and mod...
Having programmed through emacs and vi for years and years at this point, I have heard that using an IDE is a very good way of becoming more efficient. To that end, I have decided to try using Eclipse for a lot of coding and seeing how I get on. Are there any suggestions for easing the transition over to an IDE. Obviously, some will th...
I'm looking into adding some features to an open source packages and I would like to know your advices, experiences at "getting into" other people's code. I obviously already did the following, reading the most relevant part of the code, step debugging, having a good knowledge of the data* processed , generated documentation & graph thr...
Basically, I have recently started a "pet project" (side project/whatever) working with RESTful APIs that are on the Internet. I have never done this before, and I have found that it has really rekindled my love for programming.. I want to stay up late with it, take it out to dinner and spend more time with it than my friends.. Which is...
I am primarily a .NET developer, and in that sphere alone there are at any given time probably close to a dozen fascinating emerging technologies, some of them real game-changers, that I would love to delve into. Sadly, this appears to be beyond the limits of human capacity. I read an article by Rocky Lhotka (.NET legend, inventor of...
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7-8 years ago I developed some cool apps using WAP. The mobile phone apps were able to help several in a few local governments, school systems as well as apartment complexes manage their mobile-workforce and various duties they did. Back then the alternative was a Java mobile edition (J2ME I think). What is the best mobile developm...
What are your favorite supplementary tools for Java development? Mine are: 1) Total Commander (due to the ability to search inside JARs). 2) JAD + Jadclipse (to understand and debug libraries) And of-course, Google. (can't really live without it) ...
What is the least intrusive and most effective antivirus software for a Windows PC that is used for software development (lots of small files and lots of disk I/O)? The software should support running from the command line so that virus scan be included into the build process. Edit: I understand that prevention techniques work better tha...
I've recently started in a new team of classic ASP developers and part of my role is to re-train the team in ASP.NET 3.5 and C#. To kick things off I've been running weekly training sessions on the fundamentals (as well as some sexier sessions on Linq & Ajax) and these have proven quite popular. However, despite a little dabbling, ther...
Is there a way to develop iPhone applications on Windows? I really don't want to get yet another machine. There is a project on http://code.google.com/p/winchain/wiki/HowToUse that seemed to work with iPhone 1.0, but had limited success with iPhone 2.0, plus it requires all the Cygwin insanity. Is there anything else, or do I have...
Hi, I'm looking for tools which are free for personal use. As a .NET/C++ developer I've been using #Develop And VS Express editions IDEs for quite some time now. For Unit testing I use NUnit and TestDriven.NET for runner. Are there any other good tools for an open source developer I should know of? ...
So, at my current job we're usually 1-3 developers, 1-2 art directors and 1 project manager on each project, with the smallest ones just being one of each and the larger ones being three developers and two art directors. I'm looking for a software, combination of softwares or some type of service that will allow us to manage our project...