Up till now I have been developing my personal and school projects at home without using any form of revision control software to handle my changes and whatnot. My question is, how feasible is it to use a Version Control application (such as TortoiseSVN) for personal projects I do for myself (and even school projects) ? Is it worth the...
I have set up a version control system using TortoiseSVN at my home to manage my pet projects, school projects etc...and it works locally. Now I need to be able to access my code repository remotely, like from school, so that I will be able to update the source at school from the repository, and commit it again once I have finished work...
We looking to build an application to maintain meeting minutes and similar stuff using .net. I was thinking of using db4o or some OODB for this. Is it a bad idea? I am looking to simply create a repository of meeting minutes where users can perform lookups by date and little things like that. Is having a SQL Express DB a better option th...
Hi, I'm begining the development of a personal Web Application project. I'd like to have a source control system for that project. At work, we user Team Foundation Server and I'm quite happy with that, mostly for the Visual Studio integration. I'd like to know if there was free source control solutions that had the same kind of integr...
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I am developing a small windows app, but have some trouble deciding whether to use .NET or not. As a coder I would like to make use of the .NET libraries. On the other hand, requiring my users to download the gargantuan .NET runtime seems like a horrible decision. A 100 meg prerequisite might be alright for software in the scale of Visu...
Hello, I am in desperate need of some advice. I'm almost done with my junior year as a CS major. I sort of feel like a late comer because I didn't really get into computer science until sophomore year... Through hard work, lots of credit hours during the year and summer school I am almost caught up to my peers but here come the worri...
As programmers, we typically HATE repeating operations. I find myself writing little programs every once in a while to help me with mundane tasks. I might take an hour to write a little console app to perform a task that normally takes me 5 or 10 minutes, but I use it probably once a week, so it saves me time (and arguably more important...
Hello, I'm trying to figure out the best way to manage some enthusiastic adult students (with various technical backgrounds ranging from pure newbee to those with a more significant programming background) on a software development project which will involve creating a website for a small business. My thinking is to use something like ...
I am a big advocate of agile methods when working on teams and/or large projects. However, I find that for smaller projects, when working solo, I usually start the project writing unit tests, documenting extensively, refactoring. As time wears on, I stop because I feel like I'm wasting time. I find that cowboy coding with an agile spin ...
I've spent a lot of time building out tests for my latest project, and I'm really not sure what the ROI was on the time spent. I'm a one man operation, and I'm building web applications. I don't necessarily have to "prove" that my software works to anyone (except my users), and I'm worried that I spent a good deal of time needlessly ...
Currently I am a moderate (in terms of difficulty) when it comes to PHP. I would like to test my knowledge by developing certain utilities using PHP (and maybe SQL). But the problem is that I am not able to find any example projects. Does anyone have any links or some small sample projects? ...
Hi, I'm doing a CS degree and right now I'm kind of bored (that's not the word, but I don't really know how to say it). I mean, I have lessons and all but right now I'm taking just a few courses so I have plenty of free time, so I would like to invest part of that time in programming something. What I'm looking for are kind of specifica...
When I was first started teaching myself programming, after finishing a tutorial I would feel like I still couldn't do anything in the language. So, I looked around to find something to work on. Since I had just learned a few of the basics, the amount of work involved in finding, reading and adding to an open source project seemed insurm...