Questions tagged [projects]

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New to Large Projects

I think I'm in somewhat of a unique situation: I have a decent amount of coding experience in C/C++ in a Linux environment. However, I don't really have "project experience." For example, I'm familiar with the concept of version control, but I've…
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Using a wiki as a central development project repository

I have played with the idea of using a wiki (MediaWiki) to centralize all project information for a development project. This was done using extensions that pull information from SVN (using SVNKit) and by linking to Bugzilla to extract work…
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Do .NET projects in Visual Studio always compile into a single file?

This is one of those things that is so simple that no one ever just comes out and says it in any of the tutorials I've read. I've been creating a few stand alone .NET applications as well as a few DLL based plug-ins for other programs. I've noticed…
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What does the perfect status report look like?

I work with a lot of offsite developers and contractors. I ask them daily to send me a quick 5 minute status of their work for the day. I have to sometimes consolidate the status of individuals into teams and sometimes consolidate the status of a…
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How many unfinished projects do you have? What are they?

I know that many, many developers, start projects and then get stuck or lose interest and move on to something else. Do you have any unfinished projects and why did you stop? Did you ever motivate yourself to come back and finish it, or are you…
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XCode - Editing xcodeproj bundle (specifically project.pbxproj)

I'm working in XCode and I've also written an external editor tool that generates resources for use in the project. In the best case scenario, the tool would edit the project.pbxproj file so that it includes the generated resources in the project.…
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storing multiple credentials in tortoisesvn

I am working on several projects in different subversion repositories using tortoise. How do I save the credentials for all my projects so I don't have to enter username/password everytime? If I save the credentials, only the latest credentials are…
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Why do my projects build when there are no changes?

I've got many C# (Visual Studio 2008) projects and a few of them are updating the assembly even when there have been no changes (even when I choose Build and not Rebuild). Most of my projects don't do this, its just the odd few. I have yet to find…
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Company seeking my personal projects during non-work at home?

Ok, so I'm building "Web 2.0/3.0" sites to make extra money. I currently run my own personal project sites with some advanced technology in the backend (AI stuff, recommendation system) that I've developed over the years. It's a subscription site…
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Starting work on a Pre-existing Project

So this is more of a generic question. I seem to keep finding myself being put on larger and larger projects. Recently I have been assigned to a very large project written in C and VHDL. The goal is for me to become familiar with the code and…
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What (kind of) project could I create to learn JavaScript?

I started learning JavaScript a while ago. It's a fairly easy programming language considering that I learned Java in university, that I know php pretty well and that I already played around with python and ruby. The problem is that to properly…
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Structuring a winforms C# solution

So i am reorganizing a winforms C# solution to help decouple and make it cleaner and more organized. The solution tracks a small business orders,etc . . I have broken out the projects so far into App.View - all GUI Related Code App.Data - just data…
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Making yourself familiar with projects

Today i did a checkout of some open-source projects just out of curiosity. So after a while i was looking at the code of OTTD (http://www.openttd.org/), i just didn't know where to start looking or how to understand the project. I know you cant get…
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What VS2010 C Project settings cause exes to require Compatibility Mode

I've been running and compiling a program on my Windows 7 64-bit machine for several months now, but recently I had to change several VC project settings of the static libs that it uses and now the generated executable file requires me to run it in…
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How to develop a Plagiarism detector?

I am planning to make a Plagiarism Detector as my Computer Science Engineering final year project,for which I would like to take your suggestions on how to go about it. I would appreciate if you could suggest which all fields in CS I need to focus…
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