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NewsIBM's Design Language is no Bootstrap killer Pin
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NewsCodealike tracks developers' work patterns to measure productivity Pin
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Dan Neely15-Dec-14 3:01
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One area where I can see the application being useful is for contractor billing, because it provides data on the amount of time spent on specific projects.


Even this seems like an overstatement because of:

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Codealike provides lots of details on what a developer may be doing on a daily basis; however, no developer spends every minute working in their editor, so the "Outside the IDE" numbers may show they are not coding, but it doesn't indicate they were not productive.


At most I could see it having limited utility as an auditing tool; eg if someone claims to've spent 2 hours on project X and 6 on project Y; but this tool shows 3 hours working with X's solution, 2 hours on Y's solution, and 3 hours on the lounge trying to figure out how to baconize CListCtrl it suggests there might be a problem.
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NewsFormer iTunes engineer says Apple wanted to block '100% of non-iTunes clients' Pin
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NewsMicrosoft withdraws bad Windows 7 update that broke future Windows 7 updates Pin
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