I currently work for a company who recently has downsized. I do all in house work, client installs, builds,q.a, well basically all the in house work. My direct boss is VERY untechnical and lately I have found it VERY hard to deal with his lack of knowledge. The biggest issues I have had are as follows: I am on many deadlines at a tim...
I have known enough about programming to get me in trouble for about 10 years now. I have no formal education, though I've read many books on the subject for various languages. The language I am primarily focused on now would be PHP, at least for the scale of things I am doing now. I have used some OOP classes for a while, but never to...
Hi there , i am writing my bachelor thesis and there is some C++ code attached to it. I want to have a nice clean Project. So what should be in it ? I think : Documentation in html ( generated with Doxygen) README File Makefile ( which make ? CMake ? ) Unit-Tests ( which unit test framework? ) Copyright Text ? ... Did i miss some...
My manager is starting to get pretty annoyed that I'm devoting time to designing tests (he sees testing as something you do after the software is written.). His do I convince him otherwise? ...
Hi All, I am working on a web application which has got good amount of static or pre-login pages. These pages can have some simple forms as well where we would like to capture the visitor's details. Post login, I have got my main application. I am confused about the development and deployment architecture of my application. Post login ...
I am looking for either an MS tool like project or an open source equivalent. Yes I could google it, but I am looking for some insight from some people who work with the end of the software I would as a programmer. The tool has to run using IIS as the webserver or it's own custom webserver that can run on Windows Server. It would be ni...
Basically my project is product based. Once we developed a project and catch the multiple client and deploy the application based on their needs. But We decided to put the new features and project dependent modules are as component. Now my application got many number of customer. Every customer needs a different features based on the ...
We use Jira/Greenhopper for our project planning/tracking. The built-in graphs are great, but when a new issue/story is added during a project, the whole burn-down graph moves up rather than increasing the part of the graph when the issue was added. Ideally I'd like to generate a Mike Cohn-style burndown graph, which shows a hump when ...
Can you suggest tips on dealing with last minute bugs when the product shipping date is very near? ...
I have a school project in which we're going to write a financial engine prototype by a group of 4 people. Most of us have never met each other before, so I'm trying to create a questionnaire to help us find the appropriate roles for each team-member. We have the following responsibilities: Database design Programming User interface d...
Hi, Can someone recommend a hosted solution that answers the following requirements (I have seen other questions but none with these specific requests): Project management with tasks, wiki, milestones Bug tracking integrated Collaborative - suitable for working with external developers Subversion integration I know Jira but it seems...
Later this year I want to release a PHP framework that I've been working on as open source. I do use source control (SVN), but it's on an extremely limited basis. I'm self-taught, I develop by myself and don't have the experience of working with large teams. I have some ideas about what can help make a project successful, but I'm fuzzy o...
I'm trying to setup a repository in an ActiveCollab project. During setup, it reports that the connection tests successfully. However, when I try to actually update the repository, I get the following message: Could not obrain the highest revision number for the given repository. If I try to browse the repository, the following error ...
I'm looking for a web application to manage tasks (not necessary programming-oriented) for a small team. It must be easy to setup and maintain, and I don't look for an SaaS solution. It must offer file upload and mail users in case of a change. There is hundred of solutions available but most are too complex for what we want or are not "...
Sorry for lengthy question. I can't tell if this should be a programming question or a project management question. Any advice will help. I inherited a reasonably large web project (1 year old) from a solo freelancer who architected it then abandoned it. The project was a mess, but I cleaned up what I could, and now the system is mor...
I've just inherited a large project previously coded by about 4-5 people. The documentation consists of comments, and is not very well written. I have to get up to date on this project. How do I start? It consists of many different source files. Do you just dig in? Are there tools that can help visualize the structure/flow? ...
I am using FogBugz free hosting to manage my project bugs, I also have several customers I create custom software for, been using FogBugz to keep everything organized. Question I have is, there are times where they send me an email with a bug, so I report it in my system and they create it as well, instead of having 2 cases of same bug,...
I would like to set up a ROWE for my dev team: Result Only Work Environment. Basically, people work how they want, when they want, as long as the work gets done. This environment has been a huge success for Best Buy: increasing productivity and reducing turnover. Does anyone have any advice for making this work for a dev team? Edit: ...
Backstory: Hi all, I just spent a lot of time reading many of the LINQ vs Nhibernate threads here and on other sites. I work in a small development team of 4 people and we don't even have really any super experienced developers. We work for a small company that has a lot of technical needs but not enough developers to implement them (and...
We have a number of AS/Flex components that we've built over time and improved upon. They've been turned into components so they can be reused in different projects and save us time. So you can think of them as part of an in-house framework of sorts. We're now realizing that it doesn't make sense to release the source code for these com...