Tagged Questions
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Difference between REST and CRUD
I learned REST and it feels a lot like CRUD (from what I have read about CRUD).
I know they are different, and I wonder if thinking they are similar means I don't understand them.
Is it that REST is ...
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5answers
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Is it the job of programmers to design the database?
I've been a programmer for the past six years. Throughout my career, I have worked on many web applications.
Most of the time, when a database was needed, it was given to us (the programmers) or we ...
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Writing Web “server less” applications
TL;DR
What are the prospects of writing applications which are completely based on a REST database server (CouchDB) and web applications which directly access the DB instead of having a web server in ...
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2answers
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General thought process for “How would you build this website/app” interview questions
I've collected a bunch of interview questions like "Describe how you would design a photo album application", "Describe how you would design this particular feature of this particular website" (e.g. ...
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6answers
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HTTP Session or Database approach
I am confused a little as what should be my approach, Working on a design of shopping cart and i need to store shopping cart either in session or in database but not sure which approach would be ...
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3answers
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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 ...
4
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1answer
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Scala - learning by doing
coming from the PHP-framework symfony (with Apache/MySQL) I would like to dive into the Scala programming language. I already followed a few tutorials and had a look at Lift and Play. Java isn't a ...
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3answers
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What is an efficient way to retrieve product counts at multiple levels of a hierarchy?
I'm working on an e-business website to sell books and also want to display the number of available books in the category list.
The category list contains the genre and the format (pocket, ebook, ...
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2answers
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Which database paradigm is suggested for a site with search capabilities?
Currently I'm trying to select the best DB paradigm to implement a web site with full-text search and faceted search capabilities. I have an important functional requirement:
The database paradigm ...
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2answers
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Suggested Web Application Framework and Database for Enterprise, “Big-Data” App?
I have a web application that I have been developing for a small group within my company over the past few years, using Pipeline Pilot (plus jQuery and Python scripting) for web development and ...
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3answers
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How best to store images on a file system
Developing an application in which users have to upload images. I have not really got much experience with file uploads in an application so I am wondering what the best way is for storing images ...
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2answers
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Saving all hits to a web app
Are there standard approaches to persisting data for every hit that a web app receives? This would be for analytics purposes (as a better alternative to log mining down the road).
Seems like Redis ...
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3answers
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Looking to create website that can have custom GUI and database per user [closed]
I have developed an MS Access database for a company to track data in regards to production of a certain commodity. It has many many tables, forms, reports, etc. These were all done as the user ...
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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Duplication of view access control logic in database queries and application component
Our web application has a complex access control system which incorporates role-based and object-level privileges.
In the business logic layer, this is implemented by a component that obtains (and ...
