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What is a good analogy to explain how software development is different than building a bridge? [duplicate]
If you had a manager, a couple of levels above you, tell you that building software is like building a bridge, how would you respond to that?
If this manager truly believes that we should be able to ...
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Stop myself from over-complicating applications
Recently I worked on a fairly large project involving C# and MVVM. This application had around 160 projects in the solutions each seprarated into their own layers. As I have been working on this ...
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How do you organize highly customized software?
I'm working on a large software project which is highly customized for various customers arround the world. This means that we have maybe 80% code which is common between the various customers, but ...
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When, how and why should one upgrade (Java) frameworks?
Short summary as introduction:
We are a small Java web development team, creating applications using various frameworks and libraries like JSF, Hibernate, Seam, all together deployed in JBoss AS.
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How to roll out a feature to only a select few users
A good example of what I'm trying to ask about would be Facebook's new Timeline feature. In the beginning, only a select few were allowed access to timeline. As the feature became more solidified in ...
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Where should you put constants and why?
In our mostly large applications, we usually have a only few locations for constants:
One class for GUI and internal contstants (Tab Page titles, Group Box titles, calculation factors, enumerations)
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What do we mean by “design” in software engineering?
I have been reading about different software methodologies. Every method has a design phase to some extent, more or less.
I am not clear on what we mean by designing. Does this mean writing your ...
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What can programmers learn from the construction industry? [closed]
When talking with colleagues about software design and development principles, I've noticed one of the most common sources for analogies is the construction industry. We build software and we ...
