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Who should support and maintain development infrastructure?
I am interested to know what other peoples' experiences are with managing development infrastructure are. I am talking about things like the build server, the central git repo etc etc. Any ...
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ASP.Net Web.config design [duplicate]
I'm working on an asp.net project that has oAuth keys and other keys I'd like to keep private and I'm looking for ideas on the best way to accomplish this.
My thinking is that in the web.config I ...
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How to best distribute client specific configuration settings
I'm writing a WinForms desktop application which will be shipped out to several different clients and am wondering what the best way to implement a user configuration file is. Normally I would use the ...
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What's a good strategy for managing static data in an SOA?
I'm working on a web application that sits on top of a number of RESTful web services, interacting primarily with those services through JSON formatted messages over HTTP. Our application has a great ...
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Config Manager / Release Manager / Build Manager [closed]
Our company is making an internal project and they have assigned us mock positions for this. I was assigned as a Config Manager / Release Manager / Build Manager.. but i am clueless what to study in ...
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How fast should a version number increment?
Some version numbers increase very quickly (like firefox and google chrome) and others don't (like cloudapp and the ubuntu kernel). I'm kinda thinking that the developer chooses how fast the number ...
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How do you update live web sites with code changes?
I know this is a very basic question. If someone could humor me and tell me how they would handle this, I'd be greatful.
I decided to post this because I am about to install SynchToy to remedy the ...
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What problems do configuration management tools solve?
My company is creating a service in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Without getting too much into the details, there will be about 5 different types of servers, and each type will need to be ...
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technique for checking modifications in configuration file while starting up a program
I'm writing a software for periodically checking a specific range of networked devices' reach-ability. I'm specifying the address range and the time frequency for checking their reachability, in an ...
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Database-stored configuration management
Developing database-backed software, often one finds it convenient to store stuff in the database which one might traditionally express in code, but which is useful to store in the database (so that ...
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User Configuration of a Shell Script. Best practices?
I am writing a shell script with a few variables that should be configured by the user. There will be an installer for downloading and configuring the script, possibly by asking a series of question. ...
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Should program behavior be modified using a config file or environmental variables?
I'm referring to *nix command line applications primarily, where you want to permanently modify the behavior from defaults.
Environmental variables are easily understood and implemented, usually ...
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Version control and personal configuration file
Our project uses a user-specific configuration file. This file is currently not in version control, since it is different for each user. The problem is, whenever a developer adds a new module that ...
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Are external configuration files considered an antipattern?
Many times I have been in a situation where an application is apparently broken, only to find that an external configuration file has been at fault. Typically this is because the wrong file is there, ...
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Mercurial Repository structure with heavyweight corporate comms, configuration management & test requirements
I am yet another Subversion user struggling to re-educate myself in the Tao of distributed version control.
When using Subversion, I was a big fan of the project-minor approach, and, with most of my ...
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INI files or Registry or personal files?
I want to save the configuration of my project which includes
Screen size
Screen position
Folder paths
Users settings and so on.
The standard places where you can save these are configuration ...
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The importance of using Configuration Management tools in a Software project for controlling the changes
Can we control the changes on a special artifact while our configuration management tool doesn't work properly? Can we do it ourselves?
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What do you do when there is a last minute request to exclude a feature from a release?
There is a feature that has already passed acceptance testing, both internally and by the customer. It is a fully working feature. However, there is now a request to exclude this feature from an ...
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When and how to use the advanced features of git?
I'm not exactly a new git user but I have never used any of its advanced features such as tags, branches, merging and others. I haven't even used anything equivalent features from other VCS software. ...
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Who is Configuration Manager?
I would like to ask members of the community about the role of Configuration Manager, as you see it. I'm not asking what Configuration Management is, as long it had been asked before. What I need to ...
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Should the build drive your tags or should the tags drive the build?
Our current method of creating a product release is to tag all of our component repositories with the next appropriate version and then modify a master build script with these new version numbers for ...
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When does Continuous Integration add value? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How many developers before continuous integration becomes effective?
When does continuous integration (such as CruiseControl) add value to a project?
Do factors such as
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What standards does your team use for your specification documents headers and footers?
TL;DR:
What header/footer do you put on your Functional&Technical specifications to avoid people having different versions at meetings?
Story:
We're have a lot of documents, being changed by ...
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Department organization of “source code”, “projects”, and “processes/work-instructions”?
How do you organize your software assets (source code and resources), your "active" and "past" projects, and your Software Department processes/work-instructions (including source code conventions, ...
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What is a good Planned Release/Freeze/Beta Methodology?
I've been working on a nightmare of a project for some months now. The product is a small Ruby on Rails app/website for internal use by a small group of people. I'm coming up to the finish line and ...
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Managing large number of app.config files
We have many windows services and web apps which all rely on a lot of common settings. Currently we use just appSettings as needed and they are referenced by key. Some of the settings are app ...
