We are building a website, which is serving only asmx-webservices. These webervices are consumed by Windows Mobile clients. Our developers write the code and test most of the functions on their development machines. Then they use the "Publish Website" function in Visual Studio to precompile the website and to copy it to a network share....
what is common if working in a team of developers: make special documentation that somebody introduced a method or changed a method (with his name or acronym) ///remark: introduced by sbd ///remark: changed on 12.12.08 by sbd or not doing this at all? in my opinion it is not necessary because i can get this information out of the so...
My team leader has this terrible habit of mucking with the database schema, and making changes that would cause severe breakage on the code base (without really consulting me on how the changes would affect the code base). Normally, I would just live with it, but we have a deadline in 2 weeks and this has been happening ever since I st...
You working on a project developing good, robust front end applications (because you have done this before). The next project your manager decides to use you for the same type of work, but you know you have strengths in other areas, which you really want to utilise them. For example, you’re hot at writing middleware components or core ...
Jeff Atwood's recent blog about bad apples reminded me about something I've given a lot of though about over my career. What is more important, the quality of the members of the team or the quality of the process they follow. I've come to the conclusion that the quality of the members of the team is far more important than the process ...
In medium to large organizations what team or group typically support middle tier components like Oracle Application Servers? (Unix Team, DBA Team, Or Application Development/Support Team) In a client server application design the delineation of ownership between the server and the client is very clear. In the client server case the U...
I am using SVN to develop some software in a team of four people. Whenever I update my working copy, it creates far more conflicts than I would expect to be created, a large number of these conflicts are like so: If the initial was import Class1 and I change it to import Class1 import Class2 while another team member changes the...
This is slightly different question to What do Team Leaders do? I have worked on many different projects, working with a varying different team leaders/managers. Some were good and some were not so good. When not so good, I would always think, what would I do different? In my opinion a good team leader has the following traits :- ...
I am in a situation where I am to act as a tutor to a new developer on my current project. What would be the best way for you to quickly get into the project - both technically, domain specific items and socially. I have read quite a few pro-TDD people talking about pair programming, starting out with the experienced team member writin...
We've all had good and bad managers. What's the best trait your manager can have to allow you to be effective in your role and allow you to love your job? For me it's allowing creative freedom to make decisions. ...
To those of you who started using scrum in your development teams: Did you maintain the traditional teams or form new ones? At our organization we are split into database, product development and frontend developers (simplified!). I am interested in whether others actually reorganized their whole team structure due to scrum or if you f...
What is the best way to help a somewhat stubborn unskilled team member gain some insight and grow as a programmer? One of our network administrators has had a long standing desire to take his hobby java programming to a new level. He hasn't been happy with his current job, so being the altruistic guy that he is, our Boss decided to give...
Hi. I'm trying to find a private website hosting service with SVN or CVS source control that enables me to set up multiple users so all of the team members in different places can log in individually and work on the same project. It would have development features like PHP, Perl, SQL databases. Also unlimited traffic and Ruby. Does a...
Hi, I apologize if this seems slightly off-topic, it's more a technical/installation question than it is a programming question, though I bet someone here knows it. In any case... I've installed Team Explorer 2008 since we're using TFS here for source control, and now I'm looking at Help and Manual, which has support for source control...
Hi Currently we are faced with 3 different systems for creating and maintaining tasks, bugs in regards to both the customer and internal work. In our organization we would like to let the customer use the TFS frontend, TSWA (Team System Web Access), web portal to report and interact with the developers/project manager when testing new ...
I'm looking for process suggestions, and I've seen a few around the site. What I'd love to hear is what you specifically use at your company, or just you and your hobby projects. Any links to other websites talking about these topics is certainly welcome! Some questions to base an answer off of: How do users report bugs/feature reques...
Any ideas what the problem could be? Some facts: -The direct report link works(i can surf to http://theserver/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx?ItemPath=/someSite ) -I have enough rights -It has worked and suddenly it stopped working -I can open source control -I am directly connected over a local lan with the tfs server -My colleages do ...
I've been reading about the various forms and aspects of agile development, but all focused on the corporate environment. I am on a student project team at my university, and I'd like to see if some agile concepts could work in an environment other than 'everyone works full/part time'. We do have our own project server, with Subversi...
I was thinking about setting up an asterisk pbx box, and giving everybody a headset and softphone and having our development teams conference and be able to ask questions without getting distracted from their code or leaving their desk. Right now our team uses an IRC server which isn't ideal because they have to context switch from thei...
We develop applications for the Flash platform, which have LOTS of run-time loaded assets (graphics, data, audio, code-libraries, etc.) Those assets are logically organized within project folders. Programmers and designers get the latest from version control, check-out their code or design work, test within a full local copy of the app...