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Is Using Locking/Unlocking in Version Control an Anti-Pattern?
Recently I've started using Git at work. Previously I've only ever used VSS (which has some problems) and so far, Git is orders of magnitude better.
The key differences here is that Git is ...
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Can Foswiki be used as a distributed Redmine replacement?
I am quite familiar with and love using git, among other reasons due to its distributed nature. Now I'd like to set up some similarly distributed (FOSS) Project Management software with features ...
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Building a Redundant / Distributed Application
This is more of a "point me in the right direction" question.
My team of three and I have built a hosted web app that queues and routes customer chat requests to available customer service agents (It ...
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Distributed Transaction Framework across webservices
I am designing a new system that has one central web service and several site web services which are spread across the country and some overseas. It has some data that must be identical on all sites.
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DVCS blessed repo replication among geographically distributed teams
My company is exploring the move from Perforce to a DVCS and we currently use lots of Perforce proxies because the software development teams are spread over Germany, China, USA and Mexico and ...
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Governance models for multi-institution open source projects
I'm working on an open source project that has full time professional developers from several universities, plus a couple of other organisations. The product has something like a dozen deployments, ...
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Scrum for team split between two spoken languages
I have a team that without a single common language among all of the team members. The team is split across two locations (though the geography isn't the main issue). All team members in each location ...
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What is the best way to allow a client to contribute to a project?
We've been building a CRM for a client. Now that the first major phase has been finished, and a second one agreed upon, the client would like to pick up some of the work, making minor amendments to ...
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Looking for a distributed locking pattern
I need to come up with a custom recursive object locking mechanism\pattern for a distributed system in C#. Essentially, I have a multi-node system. Each node has exclusive write permissions over ...
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Must-read when managing virtual teams? [duplicate]
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Advice/guidelines for managing a distributed development team
As a software engineer, I've been working remotely for 10+ years. Either by choice (I like working from ...
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Tools and/or methods for regular Code review of Remote development team
We are outsourcing a development to a small team of offshore devlopers. Our in house process for code review is manual, paper based, based on a waterfall model requiring "big bang" delivery. It ...
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Experiences with Sococo for distributed Scrum teams?
I just came across Sococo and it looks like an incredible solution for distributed Scrum/agile teams.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
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Distributed Development Tools — (Version control and Project Management)
I've recently become responsible for choosing which source control and project management software to use for a company that employs me.
Currently it uses Jira (project management) and Subversion ...
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Best way to work easily with a database in remote programs?
In Database 101 you learned never to distribute the sensitive database password along with your program, since all a person has to do is reverse engineer the program, find where you actually need the ...
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How to setup a distributed version control that can commit to subversion
We have a trac server setup that works with the svn commits, so we can do things like "fixed #183" in the commit messages, and references changes involved. Right now I have eclipse with subclipse + ...
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Cross border data obfuscation and how to deal with it?
I am currently facing a situation where I will need to obfuscate data for legal reasons (these are countrywide rules and not specific to me)
I will still need to work with teams outside this area who ...
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Advice/guidelines for managing a distributed development team
What are some strategies, methodologies and best-practices for managing a distributed team?
What can be done to encourage and enforce communication between the various team members?
Is it possible ...
