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29 September 201714 December 2021

Master Issue List Template

The world is full of issue tracking systems. GitHub, JIRA, Zendesk, and Bugzila are just a few of the numerous tools out there. These tools are extremely important pieces of our development processes and do a remarkable job at helping us stay organized. So why would you need yet another issue tracking method? When working …

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15 September 201714 December 2021

A Simple Consulting Services Agreement

When consulting, you encounter a wide variety of contract situations. At one end of the spectrum you have (usually larger) clients with a full-scale contract that consultants are expected to sign. At the other end of the spectrum are clients who will work without a contract and consider email agreement as sufficient. We now have …

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18 August 201715 December 2021

A GitHub Issue Template for Your Projects

Now that we have some example pull request templates, we might as well create an issue template for our GitHub projects. Table of Contents: Creating an Issue Template for Your Project My Template Example Template File Further Reading Creating an Issue Template for Your Project Similarly to a PR template, it's super easy to setup …

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11 August 201715 December 2021

A Github Pull Request Template for the CCC Process

Previously I shared a Code Change Control commit template. The CCC commit template provides much more rigor and documentation than a normal commit message. When you need stability and strict testing, such as when attempting to stabilize for a customer release, the CCC process helps ensure that we include changes that are thoroughly tested and …

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4 August 201715 December 2021

A GitHub Pull Request Template for Your Projects

I've been thinking about creating GitHub issue and pull request templates for my own projects. These templates auto-populate the issue/pull-request description field and provide a skeleton framework that you can fill out. I like these templates every time I come across them, since they help provide a baseline standard of informational quality and organizational rigor. …

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10 March 201715 December 2021

Code Change Control (CCC) Template

One of the processes that I was introduced to while working at Apple was CCC: Code Change Control. During normal development, the requirement for many teams was that your code needed to be reviewed by at least one other developer before you checked it into the main branch. When we were approaching our product's ship …

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6 January 201714 December 2021

MAC Allocation Tracker

If your company has a MAC address block, you need to keep track of address allocations so you don't use the same address for multiple devices. We developed a simple Excel template to keep track of MAC address allocations. This tracker can handle both single address and bulk allocations. It also shows the current number …

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