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Refreshing website design and architecture
I have a website that is build with asp.net web forms. I would like to refresh design (using css, html5, responsive design) and also change it from web forms to asp.net MVC.
To me this is more of a ...
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How do you coordinate with interaction designers during implementation? [closed]
Programmers are largely responsible for helping move a product from design to implementation.
This process is always full of snags:
implementation details rear their ugly head and make parts of the ...
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Freelance Web Developer tools [closed]
I'm thinking of freelancing and building web sites in my free time.
I have experience in C#/ASP.NET, JavaScript/jQuery as well as HTML/CSS and SQL. Thus, I feel like I have sufficient web ...
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Graph to show decreasing desirability when taking shortcuts
I'm responsible for creating a presentation to management that details how a system should be refactored or rewritten. We have an existing system that has had production failures and the code base is ...
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Migration from a complex C++ application to C# a — good idea?
We currently have a complex VC++ software application, which uses a library like ObjectARX to build the dll. I feel there are many features in C# like Collections, Generics, and other libraries which ...
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Is it sometimes reasonable to cut corners and expect to re-write software in a couple of years? [duplicate]
I work for an organization with one developer (me) and one DBA. When I started, the previous developer had developed applications that had bad architectural practices and it was getting and more time ...
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Interaction between programs
I am writing an interactive program in which it takes speech input from the user for a specific list of commands.
The list of commands will be stored locally in a graph and based on the usage their ...
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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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Approach of delivering “Logging API”
I faced a question in a .NET interview.
As a client i need a LoggingAPI. How you go the approach of design and development and delivering Logging API to the client? I don't care about WPF or a ...
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5answers
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What sort of questions drive the decision as to whether similar code is separate or common?
I have come across the following problem many times in various guises in my programming career. As a simple example, consider the following:
Let's say there is a method (B) that could differ ...
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3answers
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System evolution approach: gradual or cataclysmic?
When working on established systems, I've often found ways to improve a user interface to maximize user efficiency (example: legacy app maintenance screen doesn't allow multi-line operations where ...
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Proper Git setup between designers and developers?
Basically we now have 2 developers for an iOS project, 2 developers for an Android project and 1 designer doing designs for both projects.
Right now, the way we exchange designs and images is through ...
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2answers
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Can a designer start an open source project? [closed]
I appreciate you can't start an open source project with just an idea but would just a design be enough? Has anyone ever seen that done where a designer posts a design and developers join to start the ...
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3answers
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Software design for non object oriented paradigm
I'm currently working on a project where I'm writing the firmware for an electronic system in C, and have been asked to produce documentation on the development/evolution of the software for the ...
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How can I improve my skills while working on actual projects, in the absence of more experienced developers?
I'm the lead developer at a small company, working with C# and ASP.Net. Our team is small, 2-3 people, without much experience in development and design. I don't have the opportunity to learn from ...
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1answer
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Minimize useless tweaking of a numeric app
I'm developing a numeric application (nonlinear optimizer), with a zillion knobs to tweak and rising.
It's not my first foray into this domain, but this time there are even more variables in the code ...
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Rapid prototyping and refactoring
Sometimes when I start a small project (like an android app), I don´t know which approach will work out at the end, and I just go for one approach and give it a try. But if I never used this approach ...
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how do you seperate from designing question to programming questions?
As i try to program a solution to a request arise. I can't separate the difference between implementation problems and design problems.
How do you specifically express the design problem?
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How should compound words be handled when coding? Is there a definitive list of compound words? [closed]
QUESTION:
How should you handle compound words when programming?
Are there any good lists available online for developers of generally accepted technology-related compound words?
I can see how ...
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5answers
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“TDD is about design, not verification”; concretely, what does that mean?
I've been wondering about this. What do we exactly mean by design and verification.
Should I just apply TDD to make sure my code is SOLID and not check if it's external behaviour is correct?
Should ...
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10answers
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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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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 ...
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Visual Basic link to SQL output to Word
I am in need of some advice/references. I am currently trying to develop a legal document interface. There are certain fields in which I need to query out of my sql db and have those fields output ...
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Would you use UML if it kept stakeholders from requesting changes frequently? [closed]
As much as programmers hate to document their code/system and draw UML (especially, Sequencing, Activity and State machine diagrams) or other diagramming notation, would you agree to do it if it kept ...
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1answer
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How a .NET dev team should be designing and delivering greenfield projects? [closed]
Some of the hottest topics in the software world atm are:
Domain-Driven Design
SOLID principles
Agile methodologies
ORM
Now assuming that you are not currently using all of these in your team, ...
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10answers
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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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Should development methods squash a developer's individualism?
I'm in my final semester of college and am taking a software engineering course. In the class we learn about various software development methods. The one we focused on, and used to develop our ...
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What order do you develop program layers?
I liked the question about favorite program layer: What is your favorite program layer to work on?
What order do you build them in or do different team members develop corresponding parts ...
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Absolute statements in IT that are wrong [closed]
I was recently in a discussion about the absolute statement "It costs more in programming time to optimise software than it costs to throw hardware at a problem".
The general thought (of which I ...
