TODO or NOT TODO

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alex.barylski
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TODO or NOT TODO

Post by alex.barylski »

That is the question :P

I use TODO comments like crazy...keeping track is a PITA but a search can usually turn up unfinished TODO's...unless I work on files remotely...my IDE doesn't support FTP searching of files :)

Do you use TODO?

Do you use any others?

BUGFIX: A patch has been applied and noted incase it's liekly someone might revert to buggy code
NOTE: A note to a developer of special importance

These are just a few I personally use or have seen in the past...

So spill the beans and let us all become better for it...what techniques do you use and find helpful...real world stories would be nice to hear as well :)

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Post by jmut »

well I use @todo tags here and there.
so it is easy to grep later of course.
Other than that. I have one text file TODO
and one TODO file in test/ dir where my testcases are(hence what testcases I should implement).
when one todo is finished I move it at the bottom marking it is done...so I keep track on what I've done
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if I have something that I want to make cleaner or come back and look over at somepoint I use my handy function ToDo($message); and it saves all of those and displays them at the top of the page in some nice css banners when I am on the page with the ToDo. That way if I am just going over testing something I end up being reminded of that problem and I go and fix it!
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Post by MrPotatoes »

i put files on server to test and develop on my computer. so yea, i use assloads of TODO's and also put bigger todo's in an rtf file at the base of the application
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Typically if there is something to do, I do it, and not write a note about doing it.
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Post by jmut »

Everah wrote:Typically if there is something to do, I do it, and not write a note about doing it.
that just cannot be true ;)
Your thoughts goes much faster than implementing them...so as soon as you implement something you will forget the other 10 things you thought about while implementing.
...maybe not?
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Post by alex.barylski »

I think everyone is different...and entitled to their own approach... :P

Some people are natrually better at remembering than others...Personally I spend more of my brain power on ideas rather than implementation...Implementation for me is something that can change in the blink of an idea as I constantly learn better ways of doing something as my understanding of the system improves. So personally spending brain power on focusing on the task at hand instead of letting my ideas run wild doesn't make sense.

It really depends on your position I guess...having someone with a "Get er' done" attitude is equally important in having a solid well balanced development team. :)

Just as someone to perform the dreaded janitorial duties would be...

Cheers :)
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