How ___ to develop great software: A Guide

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Friday, April 1, 2005

This guide is based on years of observations after using thousands of applications, both commercial and open source. Some of the references are to windows based applications. However the principles are universally applicable.

Installation
Always assume C: drive is fair game. Do not ask the user where to install. He is dumb. So make it easy for him by installing your applications always in C: drive.

Always dump all your data in default location (Application Data directory in c: drive) irrespective of their size. Again repeat rule number 1. Never ask nor give user the choice to select a different location.

Note: User is always dumb. When you think of user think of one who thought cd-rom drive was a cup holder.

Never check how much space a drive has before going forward with installing all your data files in them.

Always dump all your DLL files, INI files and their grandchildren in c:\WINNT or c:\Windows. If in doubt dumping in both is fine. If the directory doesn’t exist, feel free to create it. Remember C: is your applications dumping ground and C:\WINNT (Windows System directory) is your preferred spot. Liberally drop any files there. Also it will make your application look smaller, if the user happens to check the size consumed by your directory.
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praveen
June 4, 2010: 12:40 am

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praveen
June 4, 2010: 12:34 am

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May 6, 2010: 9:52 am

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March 28, 2010: 10:47 pm

I want to develop software but I don’t know how to develop it & also want to know how to develop a anti hacking software………..Please help me.

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March 27, 2010: 1:55 am

i am b.e(civil)student tell what is a proper way of sofware developer for biginer……..

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February 6, 2010: 12:19 pm

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divya
January 23, 2010: 12:30 pm

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December 23, 2009: 11:12 pm

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November 17, 2009: 10:12 am

i want to develop my own software but i don’t know how to go about it.i need you to direct me from step one to the final step.thanks

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October 3, 2009: 9:18 pm

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sijan
August 17, 2009: 8:48 am

i am bachelor student of nepal. i am very keen to develop software though i am not student of software engineering. i want to know how can i how can i deveop the software by using differnt programming language and their code words.

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August 5, 2009: 6:46 pm

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Gurwinder singh
June 18, 2009: 3:01 am

I am a student of BCA 5th semester.
now in this semester we are going to develop the software using visual basic
i want to know how should i begin to develop this application
as i am a student of BCA which database language i should use for backend.
i have learned only SQL.
please help me how should i begin

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June 12, 2009: 8:11 pm

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March 2, 2009: 9:21 am

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November 4, 2008: 1:42 am

I want to develop a software in telecommunication and i dont know how to go about it.

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June 22, 2008: 8:27 pm

I want to know that how to develop a software..
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Angsuman
May 25, 2005: 5:12 am

@Ronan
Have you noticed the date of the post?

> Remember some developers can be as dumb as users.
I seriously doubt any developer worth his salt will make the mistake.

A guide of things not to do is also a guide. Not every guide has to follow the “ten commandment” approach to preach.

Ronan
May 25, 2005: 5:02 am

How about actually writting a real guide to development practices other than taking the piss and therefore contributing to some programmers actually falling into using the pitfalls mentioned in your ramblings. Remember some developers can be as dumb as users. geek
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