So, you're on to a new project and have already invested quite some time in it. Suddenly your hard disk breaks and you have lost all your hard work. Or not? Did you make sure that the code can be recovered in some way? Do you backup frequently, manually or automatically? How do you do this? Personally, I am trying to remind myself to m...
I have a web application written in asp.net mvc. I have in MyApp.Web assembly the list of views and and the content files(images, scripts, css, and so on). In MyApp.WebBase I have the rest of fonctionality(Controllers, domain(entities, repositories, services)). Now the question is the following: I want to give to third party html coder a...
I was working as a freelance php developer for a while, and handled all programming aspects alone. Although I worked with a graphic desinger, all coding was done by me. These days I get a job with a team to program some project. So, I'm afraid of this new development. How to manage a team and divide the work, track the change. I'll lo...
First of all I'm not 100% sure if this question is really meant for SO (sort of subjective) so feel free to remove it if necessary. Thanks in advance for answering, though. For the sake of introductions, I belong to a startup software company -- 3 developers, less than 15 employees including the CEO. We deal exclusively with Windows Mob...
Can you recommend PM/PPM management software that scales well? When I deal with a single project Redmine does it job perfectly (well, almost), but when I have dozens of projects on my hands it becomes quite difficult to allocate resources and do some future planning. I'm looking for some system that treats project not as a highest lev...
Our company is a startup and we would like to implement all standard CMM or Project management templates, wherever possible, in our project. Where could I get these standard templates? ...
Within our environment we have a core codebase, and several client-specific implementations of that codebase. When a client raises an issue, we need to determine whether it is a client specific issue, or whether it is a core codebase issue. We use bugzilla to track our bugs, and we have a bugzilla product for the core codebase, and a...
Lately I've been feeling like I'm being pulled in different directions. In my company there are a lot of forces demanding my time and I'm having a hard time deciding which direction to focus my energies. I have the choice of several different coding projects, some of which could demand a lot more work over time, and present unknown ch...
I am looking for a wiki software that would help organize all the informations developers need to do their job correctly and quickly. I have looked at several options (MediaWiki, DokuWiki, Foswiki, MoinMoin), but they all seem very similar. Which do you think would be the best for my requirements, which are the following: Suitable for ...
On Steve McConnell's blog I saw a passing reference to: 'Software Project Simulation Board Games'. I haven't heard of this before, and I was wondering where can I find more references on the topic. Google wasn't of much help to begin with. ...
I have a solution with over 100 projects. It takes a long time to build, and sometimes Visual Studio crashes during the build. How can I deal with this issue and minimize the pain? Have we gone horribly, horribly wrong somewhere? Some background on the problem: We are using CAB with WPF, and each module has a ui assembly and a "serv...
Suppose you have two tasks A and B both of 1 day duration (they start the same day). I set start-to-start dependency on them, which means that task B can't start until task A starts. Then I set the lag to -1. Now task B starts before task A. Can someone please explain it to me? I am a little bit confused. ...
I am the sole software developer in a company and I answer directly to the owner of the company. We also use the services of an outside developer. The owner isn't a developer but 'wrote software in qbasic' many years ago. He has reasonable abilities to spec projects. The outside developer doesn't answer directly to me, and my boss is re...
Currently, my company utilizes agile as it's development principal. I was approached by my boss to determine some methodology for determining the amount of work a project manger does on a given project in flight. To be honest, I can't really think of anything fool proof. I guess the best question is how do we assess how busy, on a day t...
I need to refresh a bunch of EDMX files in my solution. We have disected our tables into groups and each model represents one component or process. However, there are some overlapping tables, which means sometimes I need to refresh/update multiple Entity Models. Refreshing a group of different entity models in VS 2008 is slow and dang...
I'm working on a project that took quite a long time to build, and now it's near completion. What are the specific dangers that might threat a project in its completion stages? What are the most overlooked aspects that I must be concerned about near the completion of a project? ...
Hey all. I would like to get some insight on a question that I have been trying to find some information about. If you are the solo developer that is building a project from ground up, how do you manage the project? In the past, I have worked on a few personal projects that have grown into fairly large projects. In almost all of thos...
Hi, My thought around being a good programmer entails a lot of abilities. Not just being good with code. I want an opinion and view to how others feel about this. What is an exceptional programmer taking the following into consideration (Not always strictly related to development and might sound silly): Customer relations? Do progr...
We are currently starting a bigger project. What're your suggestions for best practices of workflow? We are planning to rebuild from scratch (the existing product is outdated by years, regarding visual and internal design and programming). While the product functions (a Rails based web project) are already set, the question is: What is ...
I currently work in a small business (15-20 employees, 5 programmers) where most projects are custom built CMS and a few web applications products. Since I started working there, I have worked on many projects, but specifications for each project vary a lot. Sometimes we get a little detail, a Word document telling what the client want...