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3 Simple Rules for Solution Management
Having a properly structured project—or more properly, solution—is absolutely vital to ensuring a development initiative’s success. In a pinch, a developer needs to be able to pull the solution from source control, force a restore of the database and any other external dependencies, make minor and appropriate configuration changes and have a building, functional solution. There are alot of nuances to making this work in practice, but the essence of keeping things manageable can be expressed in three rather simple, yet meaty, rules.
- Always use some sort of source control.
There are a number of source control solutions available to cover nearly any development situation from the lone hobbyist to huge geographically distributed teams. Exactly which one you use should be driven by your requirements and infrastructure. But developing without a source control system in place is irresponsible to your clients or employers or just yourself. You don’t even have to get involved with managing the system yourself—hosted SVN solutions are available for a few dollars a month. And several sites offer free, public source control systems for open source projects.
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