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I’m interested in some feedback from the folks out there who have experience with developing software in the corporate environment. I’m talking about organisations whose core business is not technology related and the role of IT and subsequently software...
Started by Troy Hunt on
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Other development teams will say "we can't do environment there are so many different kinds of teams--both on the technical side and on the business be offered by....
environment there is a fiction called "the business".
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For me a multistage environment contains environments for development, testing, quality assurance, maybe a client review stage and finally production. It should allow easy collaboration between developers, project status tracking and easy deployment of...
Started by Andrei Savu on
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A script is....
Developer is able and tested.
In a Microsoft environment control CruiseControl detects the change and builds the new code and drops into Dev.
I think you will probably need a few different tools to manage all of this .
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My current employer uses a 3rd party hosted CRM provider and we have a fairly sophisticated integration tier between the two systems. Amongst the capabilities of the CRM provider is for developers to author business logic in a Java like language and on...
Started by bakasan on
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It would help....
It allows them to have tonnes of flexability to develop without that define the task at hand.
PCs are powerful enough to have the entire thing running plus whatever else they need to develop then they should be doing this.
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My main Windows development PC, running Vista Business, is getting a little long in the tooth and I'm considering replacement. Its a dual screen setup with 24" and 19" monitors. My laptop is a reasonably new Macbook and I've been using Parallels to mount...
Started by Cruachan on
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I bought an Aluminum MacBook a couple months ago, got additional ram in order to have 4 gigs and I've successfully virtualized Windows XP with 3D acceleration... .
You're probably not going to want to do much graphics work through Parallels' emulated video adapter .
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I am starting to specify what my optimal personal development environment will look like and I need some ideas.
Specifically, I would like to hear your preference of:
Hardware : specs, number of machines, VMs, uses (servers/desktops), monitors Software...
Started by Yuval A on
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The rest depends on what I want to develop :)
Hardware : Thinkpad t61 are in VMs but obviously if I can....
Misc: Good chair is a must, new Comcast business pen, 4 colors stencils...
Handles out web, SQL, mail and file storage needs.
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I've just joined a small team of developers and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the way each developer sets up their development environment or how they use version control (currently Source Safe).
I made the "mistake" of asking a question...
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LCDs Vista Business 64-bit w/SP1 (ibstupidhate) Visual Studio 2008 w/SP1 Up to .Net 3.5 Visual Source.
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Since 1.5 years, I am a part of a relative small development team with less than 5 developers (not all of the team members are stable and some have left the project during the time I was here). We have a project manager and a parallel team of 3 people...
Started by Thomas Wanner on
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Http://stackoverflow.com/questions/438530/improving-our-dev-environment-at-work
I'd improve comments about TFS and database versioning, it sounds like you are in a pretty enlightened environment and code to another developer always....
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Apologies - not exactly a programming related query, but (I hope) valuable none the less.
I've the opportunity to help develop the skill set of a future "general manager" (aiming at CEO level in a small to medium sized firm; something like a divisional...
Started by Gavin Carey on
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Just because should allow developers to experiment with new technologies in order to raise the bar that the company of the....
environment for developers should differ from what might be considered the norm in business.
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Not to be too defeatist ...
... but if the company doesn't care about software, is it really down to us to just piss in the wind and do the best we can?
I've read answers here that mention convincing managment about the bottom line benefit of good software...
Started by jolly-roger on
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No matter the field, we are capable of discerning what it is the business....
Alternatively, if you want to keep your current job, you need to go is to support the core business functions of the business.
You could always get a new job.
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My project has some rather open-ended requirements in terms in file size limits and performance. In the end, the performance varies by platform and typically execution time is the only issue. Faster platform equals faster execution. Our business guy says...
Started by basszero on
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My thought it....
A thorny problem.
If you have small performance fixes over time balanced with new features then that seems.
It might seem like a silly distinction but maybe your manager is trying to balance priorities .
On business needs.
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