With a score that low, it's tough to compete with a company like Microsoft that maintains a perfect score. And, if you are landing an 11 or 12, it doesn't mean you are all set, either. There are many other factors that are essential to a software team. However, passing these 12 questions will ensure that you have high-functioning, customer-centric employees. Source control or version control tracks and manages changes made to code.
Changes are marked by a tag, known as the "revision number. Source control is important because programmers can work together on code and track changes over time. This makes it easier to highlight mistakes and correct them before they cause major problems.
And, since the source code gets uploaded into every programmer's hard drive, it's much harder to lose revisions. A "build in one step" is the ability to combine multiple sections of code, written by various programmers, into one top-level program or tool.
As you build, the source code of various tools or features should combine into a single program that can run on its own. It's important to have a "build in one step" because large programs take more time to complete if they're written by a single person. Instead, it's faster to divide it up into multiple sections, so work can be distributed between several developers.
In the end, all the sections and sub-sections are combined into an all-inclusive program. When using source control, it's easy for programmers to break the build when writing new code. What's even worse is when they don't realize it's broken. A broken build can stall production until the issue is recognized and resolved. To safeguard against this, your team should be conducting daily builds to verify if anything has broken.
If something shows up during the daily build, programmers can check the code that got added or modified to figure out what broke it.
Then, fixing the code becomes the responsibility of the person who added that change. This system ensures that errors are noted and fixed as soon as possible and that each programmer can navigate the build. It's impossible to remember every bug in the code -- especially when there can be so many. For instance, if you click a link and realize it's dead, that action may be automatically saved into a bug database.
Since bugs can be reported in a variety of ways, it's important to collect all reported bugs into one database because, if not, they may get forgotten and never fixed.
Additionally, bug databases can work as knowledge bases for programmers. You can use the bug database to see if a similar problem has been reported and if there are steps on how to fix the issue.
When writing, you may prefer to write first and edit mistakes later. Many programmers have a similar mindset when it comes to writing code and would prefer to fix bugs after the original code is written. Ten minutes, and that was only because I had to deploy it to a remote machine.
The documentation and the book from Apress about ADO. There are a gazillion classes and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do a simple INSERT and even worse, get back the identity field, without creating a stored procedure. Why do they always make the database code more cryptic every time they rewrite it?
Please, if I'm being ignorant and this is easy to do, enlighten me Great article, as usual. For the curious, here's a URL courtesy Apple Computer that will display your current browser's user agent string. I have a release version of. NET installed on my browser machine. NET, turns out its not so hard, some people in the thread had a few good comments and links.
I know exactly what what you mean about the apparent added complexity to acheive simple stuff, but as I say its really quite easy, at least as easy as it ever was. Ca'nt really contribute to the migration discussion, I'm interested though because at some stage I'm gunna want to make a buck out of.
I'm not sure why I thought I was allowed to have multiple SQL statements separated by semicolons, but, there you have it. It seems to work but still scares me since Microsoft's own documentation proposes a shockingly more difficult way to do this. Some real-world advice: despite what Mike says above, we have had a great deal of problems with COM interop, mainly in the area of incompatible threading models.
Could this be because our COM code stinks? It's possible, I can't speak to that not having directly worked with the code or the coders.
Either way, it is something to keep in mind. Despite this problem, I have found. NET and C especially to be excellent to work with - I'm just waiting for.
What does. For some reason I've been assuming that. You just need to through together a very simple asp. ClrVersion Property and logs that into a database of course you can write that also in every devlopment environment. I think such a page could also be seen as a promotion asset for your site. I would do this myself, however, you have obviously have a higher sample of visitors. BTW I totally agree with your. Net strategy, and basically we are following the same process, that is why we need information of how distributed the CLR currently is.
I think calculating the percentage of CLR user agents based on this site statistic is not a good idea. We are not exact target audience for CityDesk. NET on their machines. CLR penetration is "egg and chicken" problem. Users won't download it just in case but they are definately doing it if there is some app out there they are interested in.
They don't think twice if it is needed for some colorful Tetris clone. It may be better idea to bite the bullet and educate your users about CLR instead of just sitting and waiting for penetration growth. One note about ADO. NET critique - I have no better expression for that than "learned helplessness".
No-one will convince me that good old sequence - connection, command, commandtext, execute is something that kept your CPU-s busy for weeks. You are way smarter than that. NET even if all machines are installed with the runtime not true for a long time. This is why: 1. Upgrade Wizard doesn't try hard enough. Buggy -. So fast? The seat is not warm yet! I mean, writing good code is hard enough. Now trying to write code with buggy library is a nightmare.
IDE much slower than VB6's. Not this version, maybe the next. Joel, You asked, "What does. The big difference is IIS 6. NET Framework. For instance the identity that the ASP. Config file. Also, you get Passport Authentication built in. And if you like the new look and feel you can turn that on too. I am sure there a a bunch of other things, this is just what I have been forced to deal with.
Armor, you say "3. Buggy Please tell us what bugs you have encountered specifically. What bugs the SP fixed. My experience is that since beta 2 it has been very solid. The one drag is the way it occasionally mangles HTML code. As for adoption rates. If you are doing ASP. NET development the time is now. Plenty of xSp are offering. NET hosting - some for extremely cheap rates on shared servers. I would expect that CLR diffusion would be faster becasue of the number of people with high-speed connections.
If you can download MB of french rap music and not sweat it, why is the measly CLR download such a problem? What will it take for a corporation with locked down desktop deployment to actually OK someone to install the CLR? Matt - By "fairly well" I meant that at least COM interop lets you call code in both directions and get the right result back. It is indeed much slower in some cases. Also you need to watch out for complex situations that it can't handle - things like interfaces defined in one COM component and then implemented in another and you try to use the second one.
May not be a problem in the release bits; I haven't retested. But the nice thing about interop is that it can make porting less of a "big bang" and more of a gradual experience, if you can miminize the number of cross-platform calls by porting components in the right order. Amour - Have you actually looked at.
It's insignificant. The vast majority of applications won't be affected by it at all. It's one of the things that makes SQL injection such a dangerous thing. Joel made a decision for his company and now he is asking if his decision is the right one from the opinions of those who read this message board.
I too was gungho about. NET about 2 months ago. I plopped down and installed the CLR, read up on C , and read lots of articles from. NET early adopters. No doubt my conclusion is the same as many of yours regarding. After 2 weeks of deep digging into. NET, I realized something. There's nothing new here Object oriented-ness and dividing different technologies into namespaces? Well haven't the Unix folks been doing this for some time already?
I have no doubt. NET will eventually be a success. But like what was mentioned in the previous message A seasoned developer would not take more than 3 or 4 months to be completely immersed in. Don't worry about getting left out if you haven't climbed on the band-wagon yet. It will only take you a short time if the market swing in the way of. My thoughts are that computing ought to be about providing solutions no matter what the technology should be. I am seeing Python and PHP providing similar capabilities but have been in the field for 6 or 7 years.
That ought to say something in itself I am not a proponent of open-source but I am certainly just as impressed in that camp's development as in Microsoft's. That said, I just like to mention that Joel's views are beginning to steer towards that of a business owner.
Your views in earlier works are very candid and not obscured by the pressures of business And that is the main reason driving you to embrace.
Could somebody explain to me where exactly the difference is between a. Also, to add to the discussion In fact, I'm reading documentation for a week now and still wasn't able to figure out the question I posted above. Also it seems that Class-Generation in VS. If you read Dr. Net for example, it seems that Microsoft changed the names of their technologies so many times, nobody is able to figure out what technology to use. I have made a living for the last 25 odd years by creating somewhat useful arrangements of microscopic magnetic regions on the surface of rapidly rotating ferrous platters commonly known as software.
Software, in essence, is the thing that gives life to hardware, more or less. It is the analog of what, in biology, is sometimes called your 'synaptic pathways'. Patrik 9 Why don't colleges teach stuff one can use!!!!!!!! Robert Chevallier 7 Bloggers reinventing wheel: squared? Peter Stuer 3 Flipping bits weird hardware problem? Thomas 20 Cube or office What do you have?
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