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Pattern for XPDL import
I am using xml serialization for importing/exporting data from/to xpdl format.
And I need a little advice - to what pattern to use. Right now I have 1 huge class for controlling the whole process (it ...
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Separation of Concerns While Creating a Generic Concept of a “Cart Item”
Pretty simple setup: I've got a Cart and the cart has Items. I've got many varying types of "products" that can't really be boiled down into one thing or even a common ancestor, so I've instead ...
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Is there a better way to model a many-to-many relationship on the same table with Entity Framework?
The context
We're building a web application using Entity Framework 5.0. One of the requirements is that it should be possible for the administrators to link related products so that when someone ...
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Text Editor Document Model
I am working on a text editor in javascript. I have created the front end and i need to prototype a backend. I need to model the structure of the document using this as hierarchy:
Character
, Word
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Does this situation call for well specified associations, single table inheritance, or polymorphic association?
I'm building a web-app where users can keep track of who owes whom money.
I have users and debts.
Given a user I want to be able to find out all the debts to other users, and all the loans to other ...
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Help to simplify/model complex decision making (if, then, else scenarios)
I find my self in a situation, where I need to program a service, that can determine if two object in a huge database are the same. For simplicity, let's say it's used cars, and I want to determine if ...
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Can I use Visual Studio 2010 Architectural features to enforce design on code, without feature packs?
I am studying Visual Studio 2010's architectural tools for application lifecycle management.
After we have sketched some modeling diagrams, we wonder now how should be the natural workflow to convert ...
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Is there a way communicate or measure levels of abstraction?
I'll be the first to say that this question is a bit... out there. But here are a couple questions I bear in mind :
Is abstraction continuous or discrete?
Is there a single unit of abstraction?
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Advice on reconciling discordant data
Let me support my question with a quick scenario.
We're writing an app for family meal planning. We'll produce daily plans with a target calorie goal and meals to achieve it for our nuclear family. ...
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Is it Considered Good SQL practice to use GUID to link multiple tables to same Id field?
I want to link several tables to a many-to-many(m2m) table.
One table would be called location and this table would always be on one side of the m2m table.
But I will have a list of several tables ...
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how to model this relationship ? in ERD
I have three entities :
Technician
Vehicle
Repair
The question is how to model this in ERD? Knowing that a technician can repair multiple cars, and the same car can be repaired by one and only one ...
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How show Attributes which appear In Many To Many association
As we know a many to many association are shown by two asterisks in both end of association. Now I have a association between two entities "Good" and "Invoice" so Good and Invoice have a many to many ...
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Should a domain expert make class diagrams?
The domain expert in our team uses UML class diagrams to model the domain model.
As a result, the class diagrams are more of technical models rather than domain models (it serves of some sort of ...
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Is my sequence diagram correct?
NOTE: I am self studying UML so I have nobody to verify my diagrams and hence I am posting here, so please bear with me. This is the problem I got from some PDF available on Google that simply had the ...
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Is my use case diagram correct?
NOTE: I am self studying UML so I have nobody to verify my diagrams and hence I am posting here, so please bear with me. This is the problem I got from some PDF available on Google that simply had the ...
