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How does ReSharper V7 compares against V5? [closed]
I was told by my boss we need to buy some more licenses of ReSharper and getting the quote of that we also received the quote of an upgrade to the newest version (v7) for everyone here. We are a small ...
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Versioning and client upgrade strategy for web applications
I'm writing a web app and am wondering about future upgrades and how upgrading the webapp will affect the user experience.
In particular, I was wondering how a company like Google approaches this ...
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Older PHP v/s newer PHP version [closed]
My company is building a website with database. Programmer's used PHP 5.0. My Service Provider (shared) in the meantime upgraded to PHP 5.3.0.
Fixes have been on going and seem endless...
Do I move ...
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how to do database updates in each release
Our application uses database (mostly Oracle), and database is at the core. Each customer has its own database, with its own copy of application. Now with each new release of our product, we also need ...
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How soon existing projects should be upgraded to newer version of the technologies powering it?
In large scale applications (e.g. Banking Domain), what is the criteria of upgrading an existing project to a newer version of the technology on which it is built?
For instance, a .NET application ...
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At what point should I have my Windows developers upgrade to the latest release of Windows?
At what point should I begin upgrading our developer's machines to a later Windows release?
From experience, Microsoft typically has an epic fail about every other O.S. (I am really not trying to ...
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How safe it is to do minor JVM upgrades?
I have been working on the JVM for years and I have very rarely experienced a JVM crash ... that is until approx 6 months ago.
Since that I have experienced approximately 5 JVM crashes resulting ...
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How do you cope with change in open source frameworks that you use for your projects?
It may be a personal quirk of mine, but I like keeping code in living projects up to date - including the libraries/frameworks that they use. Part of it is that I believe a web app is more secure if ...
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How to manage database schema changes in open source project releases
I manage an open source PHP/MySQL web application used by a few K-12 schools and some colleges. I'm also the project's only developer. While it used to be little more than a source download of an ...
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How to justify framework upgrades
I am looking at how to justify changes to those who control budgets.
For example if we have Enterprise Library 4 on some systems and the latest version is 5, is it worth upgrading? How do you justify ...
