I also separate them, but not strictly on the extension, but on the access of the file. Suppose you have a module that manages customer information and uses 2 classes to do this: Customer, CustomerValidityChecker. Also suppose that other parts in your application only need to know about the Customer class, and that the CustomerValidityChecker … Read more
Hofstadter’s Law: Any computing project will take twice as long as you think it will — even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Stumbled upon this post while searching for a suitable folder structure for NextJS myself. I’ve been using a similar structure but recently found that this is not how you’re suppose to use NextJS. I don’t know too much about the details, but NextJS has optimizations at the page level. When you build a NextJS project, … Read more
The key is modularity. This is easier to design, implement, compile and maintain. Identify modules in your app, like classes in an OO app. Separate interface and implementation for each module, put in interface only what is needed by other modules. Remember that there is no namespace in C, so you have to make everything … Read more
I develop and maintain internal applications for a family of manufacturing companies. As of the time of this comment, I’m the only developer/analyst on the IT team. During the worst of the recession my project demands exploded. As such my project AND issue backlog is quite unwieldy. We are currently in the process of restructuring … Read more
Scrum really doesn’t dictate that you have to be working on the one self-contained product. It simply states that there is a bunch of stuff that needs to be done (the product backlog), there is a certain amount of development time available in the next iteration (worked out from the project velocity) and there are … Read more
If you’re thinking that you’ll really be the only developer, Fogbugz will help you keep your sanity. Fogbugz is a great product, It builds focused communications and can turn anything into a case (issue). It does all that as well as any system I’ve seen. But its orientation is commercial — efficient communication between users … Read more
Update 2019: These days, the question would be seen in a context using Git, and 10 years of using that distributed development workflow (collaborating mainly through GitHub) shows the general best practices: master is the branch ready to be deployed into production at any time: the next release, with a selected set of feature branches … Read more
The exact circumstances are obviously very specific to your project ( e.g. development team, management style, process maturity, difficulty of the subject matter, etc.). In order to scope this a bit better so we can speak about it in anything but sweeping oversimplifications, I’m going to restate your question: Under what circumstances, if any, can … Read more
This answer is the culmination of various other StackOverflow posts and tutorials around the internet brought into one place for my future reference, and to help anyone else who may be facing the same issue. All credit is given for other answers at the end. Duplicating an Xcode Project In the Finder, duplicate the project … Read more