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Automatically propagating changes
When working on multiple similar projects there are often changes that can't be extracted into a library, but should be applied to most of the projects. I mean changes like a modified directory ...
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Is it better to use already build plugins/extensions or code your own in programming projects [duplicate]
I am building a web app in PHP and Symfony.
Basically if we search there are plugins / extensions / bundles for almost 60% of stuff.
The advantage of using them is that you can easily get your ...
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Not copyrighting code and then reusing functions later
I'm coding something for my job to copy directories and then use regex to make all the filenames uniform. I'm an undergrad student programmer for my university and I'm not sure what a professional ...
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Good fix vs Quick fix [duplicate]
Let's start from this principle: quality is a feature that you can't add to a project in the middle of the development process.
This is the scenario: two weeks to go live with my project and, one of ...
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Does heavy library and code snippet usage make you a bad programmer?
Overall I'm in programming for about 8 years now and it seems to me that I'm relying more and more on open source libraries and snippets (damn you GitHub!) to "get the job done". I know that in time I ...
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Is it bad to reuse other programmer's code libraries that can perform generic tasks? [duplicate]
Reusing large amount of helpful codes made by other programmers is very tempting for me. I specifically refer to codes that can perform generic tasks, such as Data Access Layer (DAL) codes.
I am ...
