Including local headers first

So I read up on the ordering of your includes, and this guy suggested you include your local header first so as to make sure it doesn’t have prerequisites. Ok, I get that. I’m on board. The whole compartmentalization thing is good.

How do I go from “here’s the zip” to a good release strategy?

I can write code, resolve dependencies, and get my program to run on my computer; I have no idea where to go from here though. How do I get the software ready for distribution?

What software models are appropriate for daily builds and continuous integration?

On reading the joel test and about daily builds, a discussion with a few tech-lead friends of mine in various companies revealed that they never did daily builds or continuous integration because according to them:

Best practices for versioning project after dependency upgrade

Say, my project have dependency N with version 1.0.0.
Then something have changed, and I should depend on newer version – let it be 1.0.1.

Managing JS and CSS for a static HTML web application

I’m working on a smallish web application that uses a little bit of static HTML and relies on JavaScript to load the application data as JSON and dynamically create the web page elements from that.

Continous Delivery TFS

Is it possible to achieve Continuous Delivery using TFS e.g. Windows Service? There are > 1000 posts on how to use msdeploy with TFS for WEB projects.

What build tools do not depend on java (or Ruby)? [closed]

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How to maintain nearly identical internal/external programs without having separate codebase for each?

I have a program I’m working on that my company uses internally, but is also sent to vendors. The vendor version will be identical, except that it will be missing some features, and use an installer. I only have to remove 2 lines from an XML file, and it’s good for external use.

Delphi Build Server – Do I need to check in .dres files?

We’re using final builder to build a Delphi project and the person managing the build server noticed that projects with no .dres files were not building because they’re not in SVN and because they’re not in SVN they’re not on the build machine.

Patching open source software when upgrading is not an option?

I recently ran into a rather annoying (confirmed) bug in an open source software package that I have integrated into my application. According to the public issue tracker this bug has been resolved in the latest release of the software.