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54 votes
5 answers
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How to deal with fear of taking dependencies

The team I'm in creates components that can be used by the company's partners to integrate with our platform. As such, I agree we should take extreme care when introducing (third-party) dependencies. ...
robinwit's user avatar
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-3 votes
1 answer
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What is my problem with third party tools and tools suggested by coworkers or friends? [closed]

I am a 4+ years experienced C#, ASP.NET MVC5, Flex, Actionscript, Html, css, jquery, php developer. I have a passion for developing and I'm not scared about learning new things. In fact I read ...
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64 votes
13 answers
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My boss has a bad case of "Not Invented Here" [closed]

My department specializes in converting customer data into our database schema so that they can use our software. Right now, we have C# applications that take an IDataReader (99% of the time it is a ...
Scott Chamberlain's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
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Build a native dll or .net dll to be used independently in either set-up

Here's a simple question (kind of), but I'm having a hard time taking a decision. First, a history on how I came to have this problem. In my new job, we need to use a third party API to communicate ...
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5 votes
7 answers
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Is using a lot of free third party libraries a good thing? [closed]

For your proprietary projects at work? Problems I can imagine are: more dlls (can be a problem when for example you have to include a big DLL but you only need few functions in that library), a lot ...
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