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Which practice is the best for database connection? (PHP, etc)
Leave a open database connection throughout the execution of the aplication, or for each time a operation will be executed a new connection will be created?
Open throughout the execution:
Open ...
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Database connection - should they be passed as parameter?
We have a system whereby the database connection is get once using a common method, and being pass throughout the relevant class to be used. There are doubts that passing the database connection as a ...
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Best practice to sync long paths to filesystems where path length is limited?
I wrote a sync tool to synchronize folders/files from Alfresco to Windows.
PROBLEM:
In Alfresco, /files/can/have/very/very/very/long/filepaths/like/this.txt
The Windows API prevents me from creating ...
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How to implement a hybrid role-based access control model?
I am writing an enterprise web-forms-frontend application for in-house use. It has Direct access control (DAC) masquerading as Role-based access control (RBAC).
For anonymization purposes, let's ...
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Holding mutable data in a single place
Given a mutable property, it generally makes sense to only hold/store that property in a single place. When the data needs to change you only need to update a single field, and you can completely ...
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Is there a canonical book on data integration? [closed]
I am currently interested in learning more about using Hadoop to create scalable ETL scripts. As part of that, I want to build a solid understanding of data integration best practices, and the ...
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When is Efferent / Afferent coupling good or bad
I have a software patterns exam this week and one of the topics we are to study is Efferent and Afferent coupling.
I understand a package has a high Ce (efferent coupling) if it depends on a number ...
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Are there any OO-principles that are practically applicable for Javascript?
Javascript is a prototype-based object oriented language but can become class-based in a variety of ways, either by:
Writing the functions to be used as classes by yourself
Use a nifty class system ...
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Design patterns to avoiding breaking the SRP while performing heavy data logging
A class that performs both computations and data logging seems to have at least two responsibilities. Given a system for which the specifications require heavy data logging, what kind of design ...
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Is there some software to manage a XP Project?
I was wondering if there's some software to manage a XP project. I'm starting a school project and I want to follow this methodology, but, we don't have a place to work. Each one works at home (in ...
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Best Design Pattern for Coupling User Interface Components and Data Structures
I have a windows desktop application with a tree view. Due to lack of a sound data-binding solution for a tree view, I've implemented my own layer of abstraction on it to bind nodes to my own data ...
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Is it appropriate for a class to only be a collection of information with no logic?
Say I have a class Person that has instance variables age, weight, and height, and another class Fruit that has instance variables sugarContent and texture. The Person class has no methods save ...
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Software patterns for frameworks [closed]
I am currently doing some research about software patterns and about architectural patterns for frameworks specifically.
Google is not really showing off for this topic, so I am curious which ...
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How Visual Studio could help to avoid duplicating code?
I work within a team of developers. Everyone is making their changes without carrying too much if the same thing is already implemented in the codebase. This leads to classes constantly growing and to ...
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Which pattern to use with Dapper [closed]
I had developed a project using plain ADO.NET but separation of layers wasn't really good. However it had really good performance. I need multiple type of clients-presentation and a web service server ...
