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What is the best way to do offline failover of a desktop based client that uses a web service?
I have three incoming projects that share a common problem:
they need to have the logic on a web system and they need a local application (e.g. point of sale) that communicates with such system ...
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REST vs RESTful vs “normal” web service - the same or not?
I've read a couple of definitions and discussion on REST and/or RESTful applications, but I still do not understand the real meaning of it.
I usually work with the apps which either fetch data via ...
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5answers
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Advice for good web server development setup
A month or so ago I created my first LAMP stack and implemented a simple web site that exercised each letter in that acronym. However my development setup was much less than ideal.
I don't really ...
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2answers
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What does RESTful web applications mean? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is REST (in simple English)
What does RESTful web applications mean?
A web service is a function that can be accessed by other programs over the web (Http). To ...
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1answer
310 views
Help me understand how to stream video
I'm an experienced PHP web developer that is looking to understand the options available for streaming video.
What I have: a video processing system (this one) that can provide output to various ...
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3answers
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Best method of communication between your app and your website? PHP, Web service, etc
I am creating an application which I would like to have communicate with my website. The app will have to get data for a particular app user from the website's database. I am unclear as to the best ...
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1answer
297 views
API Design Question
I am currently designing a API and have come to a slight design issue and was hoping for a few other opinions. My url structure for accessing basic data from the API is: ...
3
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1answer
609 views
synchronization web service methodologies or papers
I am building a web service (PHP+JSON) to sync with my iphone app. The main goals are:
Backup
Provide a web view for printing / sorting, manipulating.
allow a group sync up and down.
I am aware of ...
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3answers
476 views
When do I need web services?
Are there any general guidelines to understand when I should consider using (as a eat-your-own-dogfood) and providing web services, and when I shouldn't worry about them? Or, any reading materials you ...
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2answers
543 views
Web Services as a Back end
I am contemplating a direction to take an application. The application is written in PHP which implements a MVC framework.
Some of my clients will require web services. I was thinking even building ...
2
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1answer
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One codebase - lots of hosted services (similar to a basecamp style service) - planning structure
We have built a service (PHP Based) for a client, and are now looking to offer it to other clients as a hosted service. For this example, think of it like a hosted forum service, where a client signs ...
2
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1answer
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XMPP— openfire, PHP and python web service
I am planning to integrate real time notifications into a web application that I am currently working on. I have decided to go with XMPP for this and selected openfire server which I thought to be ...
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2answers
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What is the best way to exchange files via authenticated web service?
I'm not so much looking for code (although if you want to link to tutorials it would be appreciated) as I am trying to get an idea of what people in the know are doing. Our system is written in PHP.
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1answer
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unit/integration testing web service proxy client
I'm rewriting a PHP client/proxy library that provides an interface to a SOAP-based .Net webservice, and in the process I want to add some unit and integration tests so future modifications are less ...
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2answers
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Managing Alerts in Web Application Using RESTful API
I have designed a RESTful API and I am now working on creating a web application to use the service.
One thing I am struggling with is how to manage alerts in the web application (similar to the ...
