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Strategy for merging Debian changelogs
How should I merge Debian changelog entries for different changes, which were made in different branches of our version control system and ended up having the same version number?
Format of Debian ...
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Handling ground-breaking changes in a production system - Insert intermediate level Management object
As our client request, we are proceeding to change the base of our system. We already have the following structure:
A class has many students. (simple typical one - to - many)
Now we must change ...
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What changes are too big to be made easy by proper design?
This is a rather vague question, but it's something I've never felt has been answered in a satisfactory way when reading about proper design.
Generally, when learning about Object Oriented ...
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Roadmap for Dart? [closed]
I haven't found a page which summarizes the current status of the Dart programming language. At our company we are piloting several frontend solutions and Dart is one of them. If Dart wins we would ...
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Were there major changes in testing practices in ASP .NET between 3.5 and 4.5?
Obviously, testing methods are language-independent. An integration test stays an integration test no matter what the technology.
But platforms implement some kinds of testing support. And the ...
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What architecture to use? [closed]
I work at a small software engineering company. We are facing some issues regarding maintainability and speed with our applications. Currently, we have the following situation:
For each of our ...
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Where can I find a changelog that lists every Linux kernel change? [closed]
I am looking for changes to a specific kernel module, TPROXY. Looking at kernel.org, I only see incomplete partial changelogs on the front page. What I am looking for is a comprehensive complete ...
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How do I make the correct career decision in regards to product manager/QA vs programmer? [closed]
I'm curious about how to approach the issue of whether I should focus on programming or on QA/testing/product management. I know that the latter seems like a broad category( if so, think of it as ...
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Examples of temporal database designs? [closed]
I'm researching various database design for historical record keeping - because I would like to implement a prototypical web application that (excessively) tracks changes made by users and let them ...
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How to log configuration or code behaviour changes in non-disruptive way
We've probably all been in the situation where you'd like to alert your team members to some change ("I changed X, so now it's running every hour instead of every day"). But the change is non-urgent, ...
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Agile software development: How do you react *financially* to changing user requirements?
There's one thing I've always wondered when reading about all this "agile development" stuff here on SE and other sites:
In "traditional" software engineering, you
collect the user's requirements,
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Change my way of thinking in preparation for functional programming
When switching to a functional style of programming after coming from procedural and OOP, what things do I need to know upfront about "this new way of thinking"?
How do you prepare yourself for ...
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How to calculate how much does a set of arrays changes? [closed]
maybe it's a math question, maybe not... but I try:
I have a set of arrays that describes a sequence of 3D positions. The structure is:
arr[N][0] = X;
arr[N][1] = Y;
arr[N][2] = Z;
where N goes ...
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What can one do when “lead by example” doesn't work?
I have been working for a big company (8000+ employees) for almost 2 years now, and was hired just after I finished my study course.
Everyone here has to deal daily with legacy code which is often ...
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How to detect impacts caused by changes?
I've often run on this problem. Now I am working on a team of 4 and we built a lot of stuff. We are still finishing somethings and making changes. The problem is that those changes can (and most ...
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What do you call a cron that cksums all your files and writes them to a database?
It is a way to take inventory of many cgi scripts and web applications in a Software Service environment. It will be a way of creating changelogs and to keep track of which customers have which ...
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Is there a formal name for gradually activating software changes?
At times when we develop new features or functionality, we gradually "turn it on" to ensure a smooth transition and minimal impact for users. Instead of one big sudden change, we are able to control ...
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How would you introduce an agile methodology like scrum?
If you've found agile and walk into a workplace that doesn't particularly follow any methodology and they are resistant to change (as most people usually are), how would you introduce an agile ...
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How to support a product built with agile development?
Two of the functions our company provides our customers are:
Our Development team of ~10 employees creates software products for businesses in a particular industry. The software is used on hundreds ...
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How is determined an impact of a requirement change on the existing code?
How companies working on large projects evaluate an impact of a single modification on an existing code?
Since my question is probably not very clear, here's an example:
Let's take a sample ...
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What is the most egregious waste of money you have seen, and what did you do about it? [closed]
Often we as programmers see large organisations wasting huge sums of money on bloated and inefficient solutions to problems. This pains me greatly because I like organisations to benefit from best of ...
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How do you handle changes in client focus?
We are working on a large ongoing project that has continual feature changes. These features could take as long as 3 - 4 weeks to complete.
This would of course be fine, except the client is always ...
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How do I keep my projects from dragging on with endless tweaks and changes?
After working out a project, it might require too much tweaks and changes to get it working right...
What can I do to prevent this?
