Post by Steve McConnell about estimation experiences in real life.
I watched Douglas Crockford’s “Quality” talk on YUI Theater today and I thought that it was a great talk that can benefit anyone involved in software development. In particular, I think it’d be good for students for be exposed to the ideas that Crockford is talking about as it will hopefully allow you to avoid some mistakes.
Links to the video are here: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)
Organising a repository takes on several forms. The most obvious, and important, is how you organise the directory structure and name your files. Secondly, you need to make sure all the metadata used by your VCS is organised and effective. Finally, you must have some sort of process in place to ensure that these things are kept tidy and manageable.
Recently the 3rd year SE students have been asked to give presentations of their work in front of their peers. Last week we had five teams present and this week we will have the remaining four. Overall I was quite impressed with some of the presentations and I’d like to see the rest of the teams do as well. To that end, here are the top 5 things I think you can do to make sure your presentation is well received.
Continuing on from Part 1 and Part 2 of the guide, this post will be about the topics of branching and tagging, two extremely powerful tools you can use when managing your repository. This guide will cover the topics from a Subversion-oriented point of view.
This guide is part 2 of my repository guide series. For this post I’m going to go through a basic usage of the repository that you would use for 95% of your needs. I think most students that I teach (3rd and 4th years) will already be familiar with most of these things but I’ll see if I can introduce some new stuff as well.