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How can I define if my project considered to be small, medium or business application?
OK please notice first that I'm looking for a good option for our scenario. After some search on the internet, most people say that if you are going to build small-medium website then it is cheaper to ...
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Most common website scalability pitfalls
We are designing a website/web application where we hope to to achieve high user counts and, in general, lots of use. More specifically, we intend to be using PHP as the programming/scripting language ...
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Designing web-based plugin systems correctly so they don't waste as many resources?
Many CMS systems which rely on third parties for much of their code often build "plugin" or "hooks" systems to make it easy for developers to modify the codebase's actions without editing the core ...
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In PHP, how do you code with scalability in mind?
I know this may be a general question, but what exactly goes into scaling for all the users you will encounter, even if not in the next few months? I did some research and most of what is done is ...
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Evaluating Software Maintenance
1. When to treat a software as deployed and when to start charging for maintenance ?
In most of the cases the software we make is deployed on the web at early stages to enhance the testing process ...
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Why use phpunit when traditional manual testing can be used
When I make a web app I test my work on the browser to see if I receive any errors and fix them. I have made complex applications and testing this way has been easy and fast. I have watched many ...
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The usual metadata objects or: How to move a typical ExtJS App to jQuery, and: What's missing in the middle?
I have entered into an existing project that is all about maintaining nested data structures. You have companies which are assigend to accounts, and contacts and notes and... basically the usual bunch ...
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How do I make web-application development less frustrating?
I am fairly new to web-application development. I just can't shake the feeling that it takes me forever to do anything of even remote complexity. In c++ and java I could write the same applications ...
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Directory structure of web application written in PHP
I would like to know which convention (if any) you use for your PHP web application projects.
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How To Build An iPhone App With A Web Server?
I have an iPhone app out that stores data on the device. I want to create an app with user accounts like Instagram, Path, Foursquare, Gowalla, etc.
What would you recommend for the quickest and ...
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How do I determine which language/framework is best for our web-based project?
I'm in the early stages of development for a web application that has three developers (myself included) working on it. The project is, at its core, a web-based database that will be used by around ...
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Should I re-architect client's web app?
I've inherited a project that's accrued, layer upon layer, like a pearl over the last six years. It started out as a web page to let the client check the status of their work in production, and has ...
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Which reporting tool you prefer for a web-based application?
For both PHP and ASP.NET, which reporting tool you prefer to create, preview and print reports? Not just printing the web-page directly, any professional third-party or an open-source tool.
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Creating a web-end for a C++ program
I was wondering what would be the best method for creating a web end for interfacing with a C++ program on the server. At first I simply thought just using shell execution from the web server side ...
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Code to simulate a users actions, such as logging in
I've recently begun working on a PHP application, replacing another developer. I believed the application was using an API to communicate with a remote service but when I looked through the code I ...
