I have been running my web development company by myself for the last 6 or so years (and as added background, I have never worked in a development team as I am currently a university student and have only just run my own business, so I have no experience in that regard as of yet), but I am gearing up to take on something a little more am...
I had many problems installing Team Foundation Server 2005 (Workgroup) about six months ago for various reasons, and because other projects have taken priority, I never did finish. On top of that, we are installing a new server and I am now trying to determine what licensing and editions we need to purchase for SQL Server. One of the pr...
If you have a room full of capable developers, what can be done to encourage those developers to become excited and enthusiastic about software and software development? No gimmicks, but a genuine move to create an environment where people want to work in software, not just because the company is a good company to work for overall. ...
I am starting a game design project with a group of three other students. We would like to use some open source hosting service for version control, a wiki, etc. I have looked at threads like these (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10490/best-open-source-project-hosting-site, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29736/what-open-source-ho...
I work in a bank, and the boss now want's that we, the programming team, work on rotating shifts. He wants that sometimes we work from 7am to 3pm, and sometimes on 11.30am to 7.30pm. He says that we will be more productive working this way, because he has worked with teams just like that and he just knows that. Nobody of the team wants ...
We have got exact ONE big Source Safe Tree and ONE big Application. (about 7 years of development) Each of our projects is "only" to add features to that big application. The typical duration of those projects is from 1 week up to 4 months. Today we are using SourceSafe, communicate per EMail, paper and so on. The main problem is issue...
For the last few years I was the only developer that handled the databases we created for our web projects. That meant that I got full control of version management. I can't keep up with doing all the database work anymore and I want to bring some other developers into the cycle. We use Tortoise SVN and store all repositories on a dedic...
I'm interested in hearing what other people do to understand/review code changes that were committed by other team members to a version control system. What processes do you have to make sure that everyone who needs to know about a revision is notified? How well does this system work for you (and your team)? FYI, we currently use ou...
My team's just starting out with Mercurial and a central repository. We have Hudson building the tip of the "default" branch - which is basically our mainline. We had a check-in policy with our old VCS that code reviews, testing, etc. must be done before you check-in to the mainline. So, let's say you are working on feature X. You wo...
I've got a moderately complicated application that has been developed primarily by me, and I'm getting ready to bring a few more developers in, and I'm thinking of various forms of documentation that might be helpful. I want to communicate information about the directory structure/layout of the project so the new guys will know where t...
i'm working with TFS and i need to edit file localy without checking it out . another case if some one checked in the file and i need to change my locally copy. what should I do ? in Visual source safe we can do that by removing the read only check on the file. thanks, ...
I don't know exactly how to express this problem because it may seem childish but this team member is a very difficult person. For example when he's being given a task that is either important or difficult, he always asks the other members of the other teams about how to handle it. He doesn't come to ask the team leader or discuss about...
Hi, Our application is currently made up of two big entities: C# ASPX files, and RPT report template files. ASPX files are developed by someone, and the RPT files are developed by someone else. Both worlds are not in sync. For example, you could have 10 new versions for the RPT templates, while only one is done on a C# file. Is the...
I am working on a Drupal site with a few friends. Obviously we can Version control the code... but what do we do to keep each others databases in check? I have managed to get all the theming into files (contemplate etc), but ideally my views settings, menu settings would be in line also... (Not worried about Content either way as we're ...
Is there a way to export all of TFS 2008 Groups and Permissions for an Audit? ...
Hi, so I'm having a lot of fun with Perl at home for some time now. How much more difficult do things get when you develop Perl modules (In my case it's mostly catalyst) in a team? How do we make sure we all got the same development environment (Perl/Module versions)? Simply by keeping up to date with CPAN? Do some teams setup their 'pr...
Let's say I have programmers and artists working on a project. The artists have some folders they care about: /Doodles /Images/Jpgs And maybe the programmers have a folder like this: /Code/View/Jpgs What is the best process in Mercurial to keep the 2 Jpgs folders synced? I have used Vault, where you can have 2 or more files/folde...
Hi, We're currently looking at an IT upgrade and I'm after recommendations for a tool which can do some or all of the following. SVN management (authz, web viewer, commit log, diff) Create template projects (1 click e.g. create me a microsite with this name in svn and give these people access) Reporting on code churn, time spent on ta...
I'm looking for a simple and light tool for tracking ideas and bugs for small physics lab team (4 members). Bugzilla and Trac have too much fields and other stuff for us. I don’t think that we need more than issue descriptions and simple categorization. But we are not happy with text and excel files suggested here. Could you please advis...
Hi all, I recently installed TFS 2010 with the included sharepoint services on a single server. I am getting the following error multiple times on the project dashboard web page on the TFS2010 project protal after creating a brand new project in the default project collection. I am not an expert with WSS, so any guidance will be greatl...