I'm the only developer in the (small) company that I work for, although I'm fortunate that my boss is very technical. What tips do other people in a similar situation have. I'm wondering about how you handle some of the following issues: getting advice and mentoring (from a person) not having another coder to run a solution past deve...
For example, if I was doing a project at home, does it make sense to use version control in the event that I want to revert or whatever, or does the shadow copy feature of Vista (we'll assume I'm using Vista) accomplish the same thing? ...
I have a home project that really needs to be in Source Control. I tried installing Subversion, which I have some experience with, but couldn't get it working. I don't particularly want to use SourceSafe. I'm a bit nervous about Git/Mercury as being somewhat cryptic, although this is only based on opinion rather than my experience. M...
I've decided that I want to use Mercurial for a small, personal project. Most of the help I've read about it talks about merging changes between multiple users. Since I'm solo, that's not going to happen. Should I have multiple repositories? My development computer is already backed up nightly to my Windows Home Server, so it doesn...
I'm currently in the planning stages of starting out on my own* (with a business partner...) and am trying to come up with a list of minimum requirements that I'll need for the early stages of this venture. Leaving out the business craft side of things (sales marketing etc.) at this point - there are plenty of articles here on SO coveri...
I work as a lone developer in a very small company. My work is quite chaotic and I'm looking for ways to make it more organized. One problem is that my projects have practically no management. Rarely anyone asks me what I'm doing, or if I have any problems. At some point there was talk about weekly status meetings, but that's some time ...
I realize that the answer to this question very much depends on the developer, but I thought I'd toss it out there anyway. I've been the sole developer at my work for about 5 years and came on without much experience to boot (read: accepted a low starting salary). I do pretty much all of the planning, design, development, testing, depl...