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The Standalone Programmer: Tips from the trenches
By Matt Gullett
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I have been the only programmer at my employer for about 3 years now. I am fortunate that my boss is an ex-programmer and has a good eye for architectural details and big pictures. However, all of the architecture, design, development, debugging, testing and refining work falls to me. I do not have a staff to assist with the development, QA or testing so for just about every aspect of development my company needs, I'm on my own. Many of the projects I have worked on have been very small and accomplished in just a couple of weeks, but others have spanned 3 years and are continuing.
To combat this problem I have been endeavoring to train myself on the best practices and solutions to my problem. Many of the concepts outlined in the various books can be easily applied to one-man-shows, but others cannot. As a result I have searched for alternate solutions to the various problems I have encountered. Most if not all of the solutions I have come up with are not original and many of you will already know what I know and much more. I decided to write this article in the hopes that it would help some other developers AND that I could obtain feedback from the CP audience on best practices and techniques for success.
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