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Interaction between programs

I am writing an interactive program in which it takes speech input from the user for a specific list of commands. The list of commands will be stored locally in a graph and based on the usage their ...
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What is a good analogy to explain how software development is different than building a bridge? [duplicate]

If you had a manager, a couple of levels above you, tell you that building software is like building a bridge, how would you respond to that? If this manager truly believes that we should be able to ...
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Approach of delivering “Logging API”

I faced a question in a .NET interview. As a client i need a LoggingAPI. How you go the approach of design and development and delivering Logging API to the client? I don't care about WPF or a ...
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What sort of questions drive the decision as to whether similar code is separate or common?

I have come across the following problem many times in various guises in my programming career. As a simple example, consider the following: Let's say there is a method (B) that could differ ...
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System evolution approach: gradual or cataclysmic?

When working on established systems, I've often found ways to improve a user interface to maximize user efficiency (example: legacy app maintenance screen doesn't allow multi-line operations where ...
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Proper Git setup between designers and developers?

Basically we now have 2 developers for an iOS project, 2 developers for an Android project and 1 designer doing designs for both projects. Right now, the way we exchange designs and images is through ...
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Can a designer start an open source project? [closed]

I appreciate you can't start an open source project with just an idea but would just a design be enough? Has anyone ever seen that done where a designer posts a design and developers join to start the ...
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Software design for non object oriented paradigm

I'm currently working on a project where I'm writing the firmware for an electronic system in C, and have been asked to produce documentation on the development/evolution of the software for the ...
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Minimize useless tweaking of a numeric app

I'm developing a numeric application (nonlinear optimizer), with a zillion knobs to tweak and rising. It's not my first foray into this domain, but this time there are even more variables in the code ...
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How should compound words be handled when coding? Is there a definitive list of compound words? [closed]

QUESTION: How should you handle compound words when programming? Are there any good lists available online for developers of generally accepted technology-related compound words? I can see how ...
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“TDD is about design, not verification”; concretely, what does that mean?

I've been wondering about this. What do we exactly mean by design and verification. Should I just apply TDD to make sure my code is SOLID and not check if it's external behaviour is correct? Should ...
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Freelance Web Developer tools

I'm thinking of freelancing and building web sites in my free time. I have experience in C#/ASP.NET, JavaScript/jQuery as well as HTML/CSS and SQL. Thus, I feel like I have sufficient web ...
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How do you organize highly customized software?

I'm working on a large software project which is highly customized for various customers arround the world. This means that we have maybe 80% code which is common between the various customers, but ...
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Visual Basic link to SQL output to Word

I am in need of some advice/references. I am currently trying to develop a legal document interface. There are certain fields in which I need to query out of my sql db and have those fields output ...
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Are there any tools that integrate wireframes and designs with component and bugs lists?

I’ve used a couple of tools that integrate source control and bug tracking (specifically Unfuddle and Bitbucket). Both these tools let you set up simple lists of components, to help organise bugs. I ...
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How a .NET dev team should be designing and delivering greenfield projects? [closed]

Some of the hottest topics in the software world atm are: Domain-Driven Design SOLID principles Agile methodologies ORM Now assuming that you are not currently using all of these in your team, ...
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What do we mean by “design” in software engineering?

I have been reading about different software methodologies. Every method has a design phase to some extent, more or less. I am not clear on what we mean by designing. Does this mean writing your ...
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Should development methods squash a developer's individualism?

I'm in my final semester of college and am taking a software engineering course. In the class we learn about various software development methods. The one we focused on, and used to develop our ...
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How do you coordinate with interaction designers during implementation?

Programmers are largely responsible for helping move a product from design to implementation. This process is always full of snags: implementation details rear their ugly head and make parts of the ...
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What can programmers learn from the construction industry? [closed]

When talking with colleagues about software design and development principles, I've noticed one of the most common sources for analogies is the construction industry. We build software and we ...
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Absolute statements in IT that are wrong [closed]

I was recently in a discussion about the absolute statement "It costs more in programming time to optimise software than it costs to throw hardware at a problem". The general thought (of which I ...
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What order do you develop program layers?

I liked the question about favorite program layer: What is your favorite program layer to work on? What order do you build them in or do different team members develop corresponding parts ...
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how do you seperate from designing question to programming questions?

As i try to program a solution to a request arise. I can't separate the difference between implementation problems and design problems. How do you specifically express the design problem?
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Would you use UML if it kept stakeholders from requesting changes frequently?

As much as programmers hate to document their code/system and draw UML (especially, Sequencing, Activity and State machine diagrams) or other diagramming notation, would you agree to do it if it kept ...