A project is a collaborative and planned activity for attaining a particular goal.
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What is good way to maintain library project without redundency
I am a android developer, while i develop new project, i require some library project need to import, so in every new project i require to cope library project and then i can add.
Is there any better ...
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Is pivoting a midsize software company from project-based to product-based the right way to go? [closed]
I work at a Dutch company (~50FTE) which caters to the Dutch water management sector. We have about 35 consultants and 10 software engineers.
Short history: The company started doing just ...
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How to convince manager there is a need of change project assign to me [closed]
I know my question may be bit subjective and answer also change according to circumstances. so i am trying to elaborate my current circumstances in different scenes.
SCENE 1
I am working in a ...
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How do I collect a list of rss feeds?
I am developing a rss reader where users search and follow blogs. But, how will I collect and store the feeds of thousands of blogs?
Manual process of adding individual feeds is painful. Is there an ...
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What to do as a Dev when for years their team has lacked product innovation, not used project mgmt methodologies, and kept bad Software Dev practices? [duplicate]
Note: To those who have marked this question as duplicate: The answers on that post do not address my question, unlike the ones on this post that do address my question directly. Also, that question ...
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Solution looking for a problem (learning design patterns, school) [closed]
I'm enrolled in grad school and this summer we're tasked with a series of projects that should include implementations of design patterns from a couple of textbooks. Our first project is for one of a ...
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How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure?
I am a developer in a 5-member team and I believe our project is headed for disaster. I'll describe why in the bottom, but my question is how should I behave? The deadline is in 1.5 months and I feel ...
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Which communication tools do open source communities and alike use [closed]
I'm workign on my thesis for the University, the topic is how can the communication tools that open source community uses affect the development of Business Intelligence projects inside a company.
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how to convince team and project manager that post-launch deployments are okay for new features
We have a site that launched and is "feature-complete", we've done all that the client has asked for and fixed a few bugs post-launch. However, I noticed that our site's home page is using 100 SQL ...
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How should you deal with a popular project that you no longer want to maintain?
I am the maintainer of a project which has a large non-technical userbase. I've been maintaining it for about 4 years now and adding new features as they've been requested.
I'd like to move on to ...
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Should classes, enums and other entities be placed in separate files?
My company's team lead\architect argues that a large-scale project is easier to understand if "entities connected by logic" are placed in one .cs file.
I quote:
"The whole structure of the logic ...
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Interesting Projects Involving Strings and WordLists for Python? [closed]
I'm currently trying to teach my friend a bit about Python. He likes iterating over wordLists and using various String methods in order to answer interesting questions like, "Which word has the most ...
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How to approach the creation of a “Unit Outline” generator?
I am the Studies Coordinator at a College and we currently have somewhere in the order of 100-200 unit outlines that are created at the beginning of each semester. Those outlines need to have ...
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Study a project to be able to maintain it in future
I've joined as a fresher (trainee) a software company developing for Windows Store. I don't know much about C#. My company has started Windows Store development recently. They didn't do .Net ...
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Should I create a new open project to replace an existing one?
Recently I was looking at an open source project to contribute to however after going through the ugly code base (which seems to break quite a bit) and reading some things about the current maintainer ...
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Where should I sell my software's source code? [closed]
I started a project about 4 years ago. It's been a while so I'm not exactly sure what should I do with it.
I made a piece of software with self-made algorithms – have a whole note with handscript for ...
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Is looking at random code snippets useful to quickly determine the quality of a project?
To get an idea of the quality of a project that I've never seen before (usually open source projects that I'm considering whether or not to use), I often start by opening random files and eyeballing ...
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Why would companies allow these practices?
Here's a situation that usually happens in some companies:
Announce interesting product X.
Promise a release date.
Release on the promised released date, ready or not.
Users discover and report ...
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Project Dashboards
I'm attempting to create a dashboard so that people not intimately involved with the project can get an indication of project's health. I'm struggling with determining what to put on said dashboard. I ...
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Build one to throw away vs Second-system effect
On one hand there is an advice that says "Build one to throw away". Only after finishing a software system and seeing the end product we realize what went wrong in the design phase and understand how ...
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Releasing Mobile Application under multiple platforms, same time or?
I've always had this idea circling around until I am facing this issue.
We made an android app, it is ready, but we are planning to release the same app on iOS and possibly Windows Phone;
Now, ...
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What technical details should be included in a presentation of software project to senior management? [closed]
We have created a web application. We need to demo this application to our senior management. They don't understand the technology.
We are creating a power point presentation for this. How much ...
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Is SOA an Utopia? [closed]
I have attended to many SOA related sales pitches and presentations through the years. SOA projects have died because of lack of interest or because of grandiose scopes. The very buzzword has lost ...
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How many tasks to plan beforehand [closed]
As for my daily routine. Every morning when I come to work, I look at the items of my todo-list inbox (noted from the previous day). For each task I think about on which day I should get started and ...
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How to maintain same code fragments on multiple projects [closed]
I am an indie developer working on multiple Android projects. I am having problem with maintaining same functionality on different projects. For example, three of my apps use the same 2 classes; since ...
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Good Practices for development team in large projects
Since I started learning C a few years ago, I have never been a part of a team that worked on a project. I am very interested to know what are the best practices for writing large projects in C.
One ...
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Depending on fixed version of a library and ignore its updates
I was talking to a technical boss yesterday. Its about a project in C++ that depends on opencv and he wanted to include a specific opencv version into the svn and keep using this version ignoring any ...
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How to turn a Netbeans project into .exe?
I wanted to know if there was a way to convert the existing Netbeans projects into an installable .exe file so that it can be installed and used standalone?
If so, how?
I program using Java.
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How much more should I charge for freelance project source code?
Currently I'm working as a freelancer, and for the first time a faced a client who wants the source code too.
This client owns a software development company, and wants to have rights over the source ...
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Starting a new project and need ideas for handling Phishing/Brute Force attacks AND Logging access [closed]
I'm starting a brand new project. The main access from the client side app will be via an API written in ASP.Net MVC3.
I'm looking for discussions on how best to handle logging information for ...
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A place for putting code samples in projects
Every now and then I get or write some minimal code samples to achieve tasks. What's the usual practice for storing these samples (which could prove useful later on) ? Have a separate source folder or ...
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Best Practices when extending a project
I have to extend a web application for a customer, there is no documentation of the current app, no analysis and even worse, there is no technical support or management. The client gives me a list of ...
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Biggest obstacles to working on a group project [closed]
I'm doing my first group project in a class where most quarters 40% of the students have failed. I believe the reason for this is the poor quality of teaching in the class. For example, the instructor ...
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Is working on a large project a good or a bad thing in the long run? [closed]
In a large project you only get to use the technology necessary for that project; smaller projects come and go, and you need to learn more technologies.
On the other hand large projects are usually ...
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How do you get past the Analysis to Paralysis when working on a new project?
I've been struggling with how to get my project going. I've got an old software package that is in need of desparate rewrite. I haven't compiled the source code since 2004. It still sells, it's stable ...
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Does it work when a developer is the project manager's boss?
I am in the planning stage of a project and I am looking to hire a project manager. I would like to do some coding and keep eye on all parts of the project. However, i have a feeling that a project ...
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Quantitfying a cost for a software project
Disclaimer: I didn't know exactly where to put this question. If you feel that this question is not suitable for Programmers @ StackExchange, feel free to migrate it.
Background: Broadening my last ...
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Difference between planning a project vs. planning a product
I have read in numerous places that when developing a product you need to take a different approach to when you are developing a project (think "contract" work).
Some differences are:
1) There is no ...
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Naming your applications or projects [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you name your projects?
I think as developers and programmers that having some help and resources for naming projects would really be of some help, and some of us ...
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How to introduce your team to functional style of coding?
I have a situation where most people in my group come from an object oriented programming background with little to no understanding of functional programming. Not even basics like closures.
Any ...
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What should happen at the start of a software project startup?
A quick introduction
My college semesters include a 8 week project working for an actual company with a software need in order to get some much needed practical experience. I have just started such a ...
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Starting software projects
Always, when I try to start new project, with what I think new ideas, first of all I search the web to try to find some thing same, most of the time (if not all) I find that my ideas of new project ...
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How to work on my personal ideas during the weekend? [closed]
I'm working full time 5 days a week, mostly between 10 and 14 hours a day.
In the end of the day I'm very tired and just wanna take a shower, hang out and go to sleep.
I have a lot of ideas that I ...
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Designing a completely new database/gui solution for my compnay
I'm no expert when it come to everything Visual Studio 2010 and utilizing SQL server 2008. I'm sure some of my personal projects I've built for personal use would get laughed off the face of the ...
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How to describe the complexity of a project, without revealing information?
I will be looking for a job after a long break, so I need all the help I can get.
Problem is, my best point in a portofolio is an unusual application, using quite unusual algorithms, that may seem ...
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How to create an Intelligent Agent [closed]
I am currently doing my Honours in Computer Science and taking Artificial Intelligence as a subject. As part of completing the subject I have to develop my own basic intelligent agent.
I have yet to ...
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Programming with a group of people I've never met
I've been assigned a group project from my AP computer science class, and I am required to work with three other people. I've never talked to them before, I have no idea their skill level, and all I ...
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What to do (or not do) when a developer doesn't deliver the goods?
I've recently had the misfortune of hiring a developer who failed to deliver a working product by the arranged date.
I have the software, but it produces errors on installation. The developer said the ...
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How can I learn practical applications of software engineering principles?
I'm having problems bringing the software engineering I learned in school into my projects at my job.
The patterns are all easy enough to apply, but coming up with architectures and general class ...
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Why is it so hard to make a great app?
Maybe a better way to ask the question would be: why is the Facebook app so bad?
This is not so much a question specific to the Facebook iOS app, it just uses that as an example. What I want to know ...
