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11 questions linked to/from How to stop gold-plating and just be content to release working developments
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Where do you draw the line between quantity and quality? [duplicate]
My manager has talked with me and says that the quality of my work is excellent, but I need to step up the quantity of how much I crank out. I've only been working for a couple of years, so I still ...
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How to avoid getting carried away with details? [duplicate]
When I program, I often get too involved with details. There might be some little thing that doesn't do exactly what I want it to, or maybe there's some little feature I want to add. Either way, none ...
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Obsessed with finding most elegant solution [duplicate]
I find that at times I get obsessed with finding the most elegant solution to a problem or task.
I'll spend hours trawling the internet/texts for ideas and discussion on the right way to solve a ...
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Representing a status as single letter strings [duplicate]
I worry that I'm too concerned with code smells. I've spent the last two days procrastinating over implementation details and how I would actively refuse using the approach suggested.
We have a ...
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Staying productive by keeping focus on a feature while developing [duplicate]
As a hobbyist developer I'm quite keen on the git-flow way of working.
But I keep having a problem that I can only blame myself for: while developing a new feature, I keep getting sidetracked by ...
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How can i get around of infinite circle of technology change [duplicate]
I have been in web developement for 6 years. I am facing one big problem and i want to know how can i get rid of it.
There are many personal projects like web application which i want o build.
As an ...
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The urge to organize code in a cleaner way [duplicate]
Every time I am working on a project, specially a project from scratch, I always feel like I am doing a messy job. I feel bugged all the time by the need or organizing code that is clean or proper way....
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How do you balance between "do it right" and "do it ASAP" in your daily work? [closed]
I find myself pondering over this question from time to time, again and again. I want to do things the right way: to write clean, understandable and correct code that is easy to maintain. However, ...
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How to deal with 'almost good' code from a junior developer? [closed]
I got a question about team managing. Right now I'm dealing with a junior developer who's working remotely from a coding factory. The guy is open to criticism and willing to learn, but I got some ...
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Better to write your .NET library with COM limitations in mind, or separate your .NET library from Interop?
I came across this interesting article: How I Came to Love COM Interoperability on CodeProject, which got me thinking...
The author argues that they do not want any COM-ities in their .NET library ...
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How much effort should I put into the functional specification?
I've spent six full days so far working on a spec for a web-app component. Apart from personally wanting some task that doesn't involve Word, I'm wondering if there is a point at which I know that the ...
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