Application design covers the entire pre-implementation phase of a project and consists in conceptualizing the architecture, its components, the interactions between each component, the data flows, and the processes to implement.
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How should I go about learning a very large and complex application?
Being a young and fairly inexperienced developer recently employed by a "real" software company I'd like some opinions and pointers on how to do the following:
Approaches on how to get familiar with ...
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Is having functionality in DB a road block to scalability?
I may not be able to give the right title to the question. But here it is,
We are developing financial portal for wealth management. We are expecting over 10000 clients to use the application. The ...
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Can it be useful to build an application starting with the GUI?
The trend in application design and development seems to be starting with the "guts": the domain, then data access, then infrastructure, etc. The GUI seems to usually come later in the process. I ...
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Should there be a “data hygiene” index for software - to indicate how clean the program is? not leaving temp files, etc
Should there be a "data hygiene" index for software - to indicate how clean the program is? not creating unused temp files, registry entries, environment variables, etc.
For example, look in your ...
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Are there any specific workflows or design patterns that are commonly used to create large functional programming applications?
I have been exploring Clojure for a while now, although I haven't used it on any nontrivial projects. Basically, I have just been getting comfortable with the syntax and some of the idioms. Coming ...
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How to approach the ol' “this will just be a small application”? Yeah right?
Ok I have run into this many times, but here is the worse case scenario slightly exaggerated.
A client says "hey can you make us this small module to do this small task"?
Me: "Sure no problem".
So ...
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How much business logic should the database implement? [duplicate]
I've worked in some projects where most of the business logic was implemented on the database (mostly through stored procedures). On the other side, I've heard from some fellow programmers that this ...
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Advantages and disadvantages of building a single page web application
I'm nearing the end of a prototyping/proof of concept phase for a side project I'm working on, and trying to decide on some larger scale application design decisions. The app is a project management ...
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choosing a functional language platform for a new project
I have been writing code for a few years now and I don't believe I can claim to have a complete knowledge in this job yet.
My experience primarily rolls around C# related areas with a decent ...
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Have you worked with a well designed application?
Inspired by this question, I started wondering - is there or has there ever been such a thing as a "well designed application"? One where the architecture would be perfect and no refactoring would ...
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Architecture suggestions on a multi-project multi-database 'intranet'
Here is the situation I have inherited:
We have approximately 10 websites (Asp.net web forms) that each have their own database.
Each of these databases houses some site specific data, and each has ...
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Code smells in Android?
This question arises from seeing code where I feel like something is wrong but I can't put my finger on it while developing Android.
What are some red flags in Android development that says your ...
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How do I break down and plan a personal programming project? [closed]
I've just started a programming job where I'm applying my 'How to code' knowledge to what I'm being taught of 'How to Program' (They are different!). As part of this, I've been taught how to capture ...
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How to add image support to client-server database application?
I have an architectural question about a project that I am working on.
Currently it is a simple .NET C# application that runs on several client machines, and communicates with a central MySQL server ...
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What is the preferred way of communicating between applications on the same system?
I'm designing a system that is built on several small applications written in python, some of these will be services and others will be programs that only run during special situations. What I need to ...
