Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!
Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.
Posts by Monica Cellio
Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...
Welcome to the Codidact site for Software Development! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without importing Q&A fr...
We have two teams, dev and doc, and I'd like them to have shared access (via git) to a common subset of content. Specifically, I would like the examples that are used in the doc and that are scrip...
I want to let you know that today we (Codidact team) posted our default Gen-AI policy. As far as this community is concerned I think it's consistent with what you're already doing and nothing surp...
Several months ago we asked for temporary moderators for this community and two people stepped up. One of them later had to step back, leaving Alexei as a sole moderator. Alexei is doing a great ...
It's meant to include all programming and scripting. By calling it Software Development we wanted to convey that it's not just code but also those other things. I'll adjust the description of the...
I looked at your answer and those comments, skimmed the Wikipedia page, and I do not see direct copies. OOP is a fundamental topic, widely taught and widely written about. It's not surprising to ...
Speaking personally (not as a Codidact admin): One low-key way to promote this community there is to cite it in answers. If you see a question there that you want to answer, see if it's here too....
My personal opinion (I am not speaking for Codidact) is that we named the community "Software Development", not "Programming". Testing, both unit testing done by the developer and functional/perfo...
In git I branched feature-A from master. To reduce eventual merge conflicts later, I branched feature-B, which heavily overlaps and depends on A, from feature-A. A build of the feature-B branch s...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Usually some people stand out from the proposal process and early activity. Ultimately, of c...
As other answers have said, we have some of these, they're helpful, and they can be hard to write. On Codidact there's another option, should the community want to enable it: articles. An article...
Our web site has a widget that displays some date-based information that we retrieve from some JSON-formatted data (one object per date). We get the current date from the environment, possibly adj...
I was chatting with somebody who's involved with a proposal on SE for a site about language design and who is interested in other options too. Some sample questions: What are the tradeoffs b...
We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucke...
I'd like my web front end to be accessible, including to people who use screen readers. I know the basics about labels and alt text for images, but there are some areas where I'm not sure what a s...
Codidact doesn't support cross-community duplicates, like closing a question in a per-community meta category as a duplicate of a question on main Meta. However, our messaging there could be, uh, ...
Proposal, based on the feedback here so far: because code-review questions have special rules, create a category. This allows (and we would need proposed text from the community for): Category d...
(Speaking personally, not for the team.) People using git are usually using it in a software context, and Software Development's scope is intentionally broad, so they definitely fit here. This is...
You can now add "category:###" to a search, where ### is the number in the URL for the category, to restrict the search to one category. For example, Software Dev Q&A is 38 and Code Review is ...
Welcome! It's best if the code being reviewed is here on the site, for ease of reference and defense against link rot. That sounds like a sizable program; are there key parts you'd like review on...
I nominate Alexei, who has a body of well-received posts on Q&A and meta, both asking and answering, and seems interested in helping to organize and expand this fledgling community.
In addition to Q&A, Codidact supports another post type, article. Articles can be used for blog posts, wiki pages, and other resources. Articles, like questions, use tags, so searching for a ...
Some relevant history for consideration (not an answer about specific scope boundaries): When we started to discuss a programming or software community, we were concerned about premature fragmenta...
