As a developer one of the worst things possible is losing hours of work. Not only are you losing the code itself, but you're also losing the "thought process" time it took to write that code.
Even though we backup our network every evening, what you're working on today doesn't get backed up until that evening. A practice I've started, especially on bigger projects is backing up my code every couple of hours. This came in handy just last week as I was working on some handheld scanner updates that's written in C#.
After making the first set of updates I backed up my work. But then ran into some issues while working in Visual Studio. As I was trying to troubleshoot it seemed to get worse and worse, finally I just restored my most recent copies and I was back to normal!
But not only should you back up your code at work right away, make sure you do so on your personal laptop, home pc, etc. You just never know what's going to happen such as a bad hard drive or getting hit with a virus.
So get those backups done today! :)
Even though we backup our network every evening, what you're working on today doesn't get backed up until that evening. A practice I've started, especially on bigger projects is backing up my code every couple of hours. This came in handy just last week as I was working on some handheld scanner updates that's written in C#.
After making the first set of updates I backed up my work. But then ran into some issues while working in Visual Studio. As I was trying to troubleshoot it seemed to get worse and worse, finally I just restored my most recent copies and I was back to normal!
But not only should you back up your code at work right away, make sure you do so on your personal laptop, home pc, etc. You just never know what's going to happen such as a bad hard drive or getting hit with a virus.
So get those backups done today! :)
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