big companies have a team of programmers develop a single app(web app specifically). Have u worked in any? Do you know their division of labour? What apps help web developers to work on a single app? How do they guard against errors and know what part each person is scripting? How do they end up comming out with one effective app, as if it was done by one person?
I am doing a large web app, i have already laid down my coding and naming conventions. But all of are confused as to how to work together in an office.
*please this is restricted to web applictation development with php,html,css*

need ur honest contributions pls.

This is the most basic summary of what you need (each item needs to be researched thoroughly):
1. coding standards (camel, hungarian notation etc - look these up on google).
2. code delivery standards (usually tied to version control software, eg tortoise svn)
3. a project manager (could be any manager for now, but they would NEED to read up on IT project management, experience can't be over-emphasized).
4. A technical lead (a technically sound person to oversee technical standards - usually a technical wiz with great people skills)

thanks alot, man. Mr. Beaf, i used think u were just a political pro Gej , GEJ critic(s) assasin. I'll checkout your terms. Starting with version control in the new dreamweaver.
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But its like all the systems has to be on the same network at same time?

Thatdave:

thanks alot, man. Mr. Beaf, i used think u were just a political pro Gej , critic assasin. I'll checkout your terms. Starting with version control in the new dreamweaver.
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But its like all the systems has to be on the same network at same time?

Nope.

@beaf i just searched with your terms. google just showed me some nice softwares that culd save me sometime. I'll check that out. Feed you back later.

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Glad I could help.

@fayimora thanks a lot. This is probably the best explanation i have found on github.
I have a git for windows app but i never used it for anything else. I just downloaded it as a walkaround to opening a particular batch file that often shuts down after i opened it normally. I'll check that out soon

Cooll. I could give you a whole bunch of tuts. JUst tell me what you wanna do and amma tell you how to

Beaf:

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Glad I could help.

What the heck is going on here Please you guys should move with caution. Anyone that has anything to do with the confirmed LIAR called THE BEAF is on his own. He really needs to clear his name before being welcomed in the midst of decent peeps.
You have been warned.

Errm i think the question goes to you, what is going on here? Why you bringing this up in the middle of nowhere without any backup. Your gonna have to be detailed enough or I would have to delete your post!

^^^^

honestly its a really long story. refer to below. it may shed more light for u to know whom u are dealing with.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-741011.160.html#msg8979852

Really it can be confusing as to delegating teams to ceratin aspect in the last organization i worked that was what caused the death of our projects. 5 people working on the module and each of us writing in different styles. My Solution is this

1.HTML/CSS-at least top 2 people can handle this one takes over the HTML and the other CSS,while one focuses on the markup the other focuses on Browser Compatibility
2.Client Scripting(JS)-These parts is a bit daunting because especially with JavaScript you will encounter loads of incompatibility so at least One Guru is needed for this and he will work close to the HTML/CSS Team
3.The Server Team:The lucky dudes who only focus on Logics and sometimes work in hand with the Business Developers who are in charge of modelling the App requirements and also work with the Database dude.
4.Business Developers/Project Manager:They decide the requirements and how the app should be built,they are usually Developers or people with knowledge on Application Design and stuff.

This is my personal opinion oh.

besides am embarrassed that i don't know how to fully use GIT. it should be the ideal project

@Beaf Kana de Baki Walahi

Sorry, i dont have much time to arrange my thoughts, so bear with me


the lesser the coders, the better
you get a lot done without confusion

break it into modules
e.g

a media player can be a module
that has other dependent files
the media player developer has to provide convenient methods and make them public

all that will be done will be calling something like

new mediaPlayer(fileToPlay:String, autoPlay:Boolean,startTime:int, onCompleteFunctionCall:Function=null)

everyone needs not know whats in mediaPlayer class


agree on coding styles and patterns, everyone MUST comply
get everyone to state what each page does at the start of the page, that way if one of the team members wins a lottery, the project lives on
then document as he codes along.
let variable names be more descriptive

something like

firstUser="blabla"

is better than

//create first user
a="blabla"

it's so easy to get carried away with gists, from 1 technology talk to another, avoid this
more why you need a project manager

@Post

You can check out this article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Development_Life_Cycle

sledjama:

Sorry, i dont have much time to arrange my thoughts, so bear with me


the lesser the coders, the better
you get a lot done without confusion

break it into modules
e.g

a media player can be a module
that has other dependent files
the media player developer has to provide convenient methods and make them public

all that will be done will be calling something like

everyone needs not know whats in mediaPlayer class


agree on coding styles and patterns, everyone MUST comply
get everyone to state what each page does at the start of the page, that way if one of the team members wins a lottery, the project lives on
then document as he codes along.
let variable names be more descriptive

something like

is better than


it's so easy to get carried away with gists, from 1 technology talk to another, avoid this
more why you need a project manager

experience talking

using a good framework would also help

I was having similar challenges too,

.NET

instinctg:

using a good framework would also help

am using one.

.NET:

I was having similar challenges too,

.NET

so how are you coping

Mobinga:

He was banned by the spam bot. It is not your doing that he got banned, don't be ridiculous, you have no such authority.
Take whatever problems you have with Beaf out of this thread, you are derailing it. You would get banned if you make any other irrelevant post on this thread.

Also getting a ban is not a big deal, it doesn't make you superior to him if he gets banned.

Thread softly? You are obviously a clown. Now please get the phuck out of here.

Thanks pal,

Thatdave:

am using one. so how are you coping

You kinda seems a bit confused, Would be nice if you could just state EXACTLY what you are having problems with,

I quite agree that the best way out is GITHub. It is more easier to use compared to the Tortoise and others.
@pc guru, it is quite easy to learn how to use - it is very well documented online.

You just download something like a kinda ms-dos shell and it has a gui component too.

You can use a framework or do the whole thing from the scratch - depends on what you are trying to do.
And i will like to advise that it is better to do OOP programming, so you just share out the various tasks
as modules/extensions.

Doing 100% procedural programming is a very f**ed up way when working on large projects

*dhtml:

I quite agree that the best way out is GITHub. It is more easier to use compared to the Tortoise and others.
@pc guru, it is quite easy to learn how to use - it is very well documented online.

You just download something like a kinda ms-dos shell and it has a gui component too.

You can use a framework or do the whole thing from the scratch - depends on what you are trying to do.
And i will like to advise that it is better to do OOP programming, so you just share out the various tasks
as modules/extensions.

Doing 100% procedural programming is a very f**ed up way when working on large projects

seconded!

I am talking from my experience in creating PHP / MySQL Apps which i presume the poster is trying to create.
And sledjama too works in a similar fashion as myself. We are not talking of your core software building langs here.

Maybe you should re-read the thread from the begining to get the full picture of what is going on here first.

Anyway, i dont expect everyone to agree with me, i am only speaking from my experience of working on large
web apps and frameworks and cmses.

I think you should share your experience with the poster as well, so that the poster use his common sense to select which one is the best.
Rather than tackle me (which is completely unnecessary - i have proven myself over and over again in webmasters).

omo_to_dun:

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Oh my God. I wasn't tackling you. It seems you feel like your comments shouldn't be criticized given your experience both on NL and in your work. You happen to be amongst the programmers I respect on NL and they are very few, less than five to be precise. I probably shouldn't have written anything. Beaf has already echoed my sentiments and it would have been superfluous and unnecessary to write what he had already written.

Please stop the digressions and contribute positively to the thread like others. I am not perfect, but i feel i have contributed as best as i can.

No probs then, we are fine

Yawatide criticized me most of the time, i dont take offence, i improve all the time.