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What techniques are used in larger programming groups to limit access to portions of code? [duplicate]
I've never worked in anything larger than a startup and so code access was never a problem, but as our organization begins to grow and we need to offload portions of our (non-obfuscated PHP) code ...
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How to do documentation for code and why is software (often) poorly documented?
There are some good examples of well-documented code out there, such as java api. But, a lot of code in public projects such as git and internal projects of companies is poorly documented and not very ...
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Most of programmer work deals with mapping? [closed]
During all my work I've been working with ORM, WS, integration services, viewmodel and so on.
The common stuff in all these kind of work is that I had to make mappings and not always the available ...
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Good idea to put bug numbers in a comment in the beginning of the source file? [closed]
Is it a good practice to put bug numbers in the file itself inside a header comment?
The comments would look something like this:
MODIFIED (MM/DD/YY)
abc 01/21/14 - Bug 17452317 - npe in drill ...
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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:
Your job is to put yourself out of work.
When you're writing ...
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Hyperlinked, externalized source code documentation
Why do we still embed natural language descriptions of source code (i.e., the reason why a line of code was written) within the source code, rather than as a separate document?
Given the expansive ...
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How to find method and class usages along git repositories
We got some code in a git repository that's used along different projects (with git different repositories), the problem is that we got now so many different projects that's difficult to track which ...
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How to make sure the application source code has a proper documentation for new programmers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How much documentation is enough?
Do you know how the big IT company like IBM, Microsoft, or google make sure their application source code has proper documentation for ...
