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How do people manage to write and maintain extremely complex and hard to read code?
Reading SQLite source code is IMO mission impossible. Yet it is a usable piece of quite complex software (it's a full-blown embedded database after all) that can be downloaded, compiled and used from ...
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How to read thousands lines of code without any documentation?
Previously I was searching for a good TimeLine control for a WPF project. I found an answer in Here which direct me to this CodePlex project.
Now I want to change code to feed my culture needs. But ...
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Do you sign each of your source files with your name? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you keep track of the authors of code?
One of my colleagues is in the habit of putting his name and email address in the head of each source file he works on, as ...
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5answers
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Are there any actual case studies on rewrites of software success/failure rates?
I've seen multiple posts about rewrites of applications being bad, people's experiences about it here on Programmers, and an article I've ready by Joel Spolsky on the subject, but no hard evidence or ...
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14answers
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How do you go about understanding others' code?
What do you do to understand some code that you didn't write? Or code that you wrote long time ago and don't remember what it does anymore.
Do you have some technique that you go about? Do you ...
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“// …” comments at end of code block after } - good or bad?
I've often seen such comments be used:
function foo() {
...
} // foo
while (...) {
...
} // while
if (...) {
...
} // if
and sometimes even as far as
if (condition) {
...
} // if ...
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6answers
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Is it necessary to write a javadoc comment for EVERY parameter in a method's signature?
One of the devs on my team believes that it is necessary to write a javadoc comment for EVERY parameter in a method's signature. I do not think this is necessary, and in fact I think it can even be ...
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When is code “legacy”?
We've all done it, we've labelled some code (often stuff we've inherited) as "legacy"? But it's still used in the production systems - so is it really legacy? And what makes it legacy? Should we shy ...
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6answers
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Development Approach: User Interface In or Domain Model Out?
While I've never delivered anything using Smalltalk, my brief time playing with it has definitely left its mark. The only way to describe the experience is MVC the way it was meant to be. ...
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6answers
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Which Project hosting service (Like google code, github) you will prefer to use? And Why? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I want to start an open source project. Where's the best place to host it?
I am using to study (and at some point of time copy the desired module of) the code from ...
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8answers
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How do you read other's code?
Almost every advanced programmer says that it's very useful to read the code of other professionals. Usually they advice open source.
Do you read it or not? If you do, how often and what's the ...
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5answers
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Is code ownership a code smell?
This is something I've been thinking about ever since I read this answer in the controversial programming opinions thread. And it has been discussed a bit in other threads, such as this one, but I ...
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5answers
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How-to convince company to start documenting for legacy software
It has been less than a year since I joined my current company. Their majority of sales have come from a single product that has been alive since the last 10 years. However, there is minimal (if at ...
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5answers
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Time required to start coding at a new company [closed]
I am a software engineer for 4 years, and I just changed my company for the first time.
Company works with pair programming, and it's been 3 days, I couldn't even write a single line of code.
It's so ...
