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Should I include dependencies for which I have the source as projects in my solution?
We have various projects in source control for web and desktop applications. Invariably, many of them use third-party open source projects or even common libraries within our organization as ...
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What are approaches for analyzing the cost-benefits of a development methodology?
There are many development practices (TDD, continuous integration, cowboy-coding), principles (SOLID, layers of abstraction, KISS), and processes (RUP, Scrum, XP, Waterfall). I have learned you can't ...
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How to shift development culture from tech fetish to focusing on simplicity and getting things done? [closed]
Looking for ways to switch team/individual culture from chasing latest fads, patterns, and all kinds of best practices to focusing on finding quickest and simplest solutions and shipping features.
My ...
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Is it worth developing custom shopping cart?
We have handsome library of cakephp modules at my workplace, and we develop custom websites at good pace until shopping cart comes are way to slow down the process. I have used various (Magento, ...
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Absolute statements in IT that are wrong [closed]
I was recently in a discussion about the absolute statement "It costs more in programming time to optimise software than it costs to throw hardware at a problem".
The general thought (of which I ...
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How to deal with complex codes in (huge) projects
I am preparing a memoir about "Why do (some) IT projects become too complex and how to avoid it ?".
If you have ever encountered projects having complex codes or were hard to maintain, how did you ...
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Would you use UML if it kept stakeholders from requesting changes frequently?
As much as programmers hate to document their code/system and draw UML (especially, Sequencing, Activity and State machine diagrams) or other diagramming notation, would you agree to do it if it kept ...
