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If you ever managed a software development effort or parts of it in any capacity when what bits did you find difficult or frustrating? What did happen at the end?
UPDATE: It would be nice to hear some actual stories as opposed to "geeks are difficult ...
Started by Totophil on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If you don't know.
Very difficult I find difficult/frustrating when managing a project:
Underspecified projects.
You're all a nightmare
Difficult: The hard-to-reproduce bug.
Software Developers.
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When being responsible for a project, from requirements gathering to design, to the different cycles of development (test development, refactoring, etc) what tends to be the most difficult in terms of mental effort and time?
Started by Pierreten on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Depends; the most difficult part of a 'good' project is the planning phase; the most difficult part of project that didn't have extensive difficult in latter stages, can even....
Otherwise it may depend.
The phase until it is finished.
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One of the most difficult test cases I have encountered is testing features that operates on files and folders. It is not easy to mock or simulate files and folders.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
My first round of testing tried to create a SynchronizationContext and wait on the thread until it returned the completed event, In my case the completed... .
I had a event model async class that handled and FTP call and did some work on the completed event .
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What is the difficult part of software development that has major impact on final product/output? and How?
What I expect is, in which areas [like technology, requirements..ect] should I concentrate 'more' to develop better applications.
Started by LittleBoy on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The most difficult part is dealing with human.
The difficult part of software development is communication: between you and your team members from having a team of competent developers, that is).
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This question just really interested me, so I got curious to know what the community thinks. What do you guys think is the most difficult type of software to write? I write government software and have found it's pretty hair-pulling, but I'm sure there...
Started by Austin on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Even more difficult that your C# application is still....
Edit: Actually, I have to correct myself.
It always takes me an extra portion of self-discipline to do that .
difficult and hair-pulling software to write is software that already exists.
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Consider I am having a website with 5 to 10 static information pages and there is no database. How difficult will it be to convert it to a dynamic website with userlogin and interaction, typically a cms? Do you have an easiest method to do the same?
Started by BALA on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Look into Joomla, Wordpress (Blog software, but works, too), Drupal (a little more complicated), SilverStripe... .
The easiest way is to use some open source software and stick with the out-of-the-box functionality, possibly using a readily available (free) template .
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What's the fastest and most efficient code editor with the most difficult learning curve (assuming that fast code editors are harder to get used to)?
PS: If possible not IDE and open source.
Started by janoChen on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
(it (is (emacs))).
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We are about to develop a web app from scratch using ASP.Net, and would like it to be as platform-agnostic as possible. As far as I know, the only two options for this are IIS on windows, and Mono (via Apache) on Linux.
The app will be follow the MVC ...
Started by cdeszaq on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The tricky.
Most of the things work very well.
Nope, it's not difficult at all.
Different technologies.
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I'm starting a new 'sprint' to develop some functionality. I need to extend some stuff within two separate components of our entire codebase.
Both are equal in difficulty in terms of the actual development required, but I am familiar with one of the components...
Started by Fiona Holder on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
So you may.
To be riskier, more difficult, and less predictable whenever a learning curve is involved.
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I'm writing a chapter of my dissertation that deals with contextual cues and I'm looking for good examples of comments (or todo comments) where it's obvious that whoever wrote them had some knowledge that he didn't bother sharing with future readers, ...
Started by Uri on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I don't like TODOs that....
They should have something that fits the bill.
Todo: Fix me
// TODO: update TODOs
I think the most useless TODO I've encountered the most would be:
//TODO: fix this
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