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Using CSS classes as decorators - a good pattern?
I've been building a web-app with a fairly complex GUI - many small elements alongside eachother and within other elements that need various behaviours (dragging, clicking, but context-sensitive).
My ...
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How do you handle multiple users editing the same piece of data in a webapp?
There's a project I'm working on that is looking to produce a web application that will manage a task list between multiple users. This is a master task list whose task items get distributed by an ...
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Designing web-based plugin systems correctly so they don't waste as many resources?
Many CMS systems which rely on third parties for much of their code often build "plugin" or "hooks" systems to make it easy for developers to modify the codebase's actions without editing the core ...
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How to make an app more intuitive?
In the industry, there are few standard checklists on how to make a web application more :
Scalable
Easy to understand/maintain
Perform better
Robust
etc. etc.
Are there any standard checklists ...
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How to manage tailored/branded web tools?
We produce a number of analysis tools which we re-brand and customise for other businesses to include in their websites.
The tools are typically product comparison, data/trend analysis and report ...
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Is a multi-page web app unsuitable when reliable server pushes are required?
Imagine a call center web application with a soft phone that automatically detects when a call has started or the caller has hung up. The obvious approach to receiving these messages would be some ...
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What is a practical level of abstraction in a web application? [closed]
(Originally asked on StackOverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14896121/what-is-a-practical-level-of-abstraction-in-a-web-application)
I still consider myself a newcomer to OO programming, ...
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what are your web application server side layering design rules and the best practices you like to apply?
A web application is often designed to be layered. Typically there would be a Repository (Dao) layer, a Service layer and a Control (web handling) layer. The Control layer uses the Service layer which ...
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Organizing large Javascript applications - The view layer
Today Javascript application of a relevant size become more and more common, and as the need arises, certain patterns are identified to manage the code complexity.
I try to follow good advice, but I ...
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1answer
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Pattern for a web application
I'm developing a web application for a university project. My professor wants we to use a multi-tier architecture (Client, Web, Business and Data tiers) with EJB. For the Web and Business I have ...
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Designing a Web Application with Two Different Backend Databases [closed]
I'm working on a pretty standard LAMP based web application. The server itself has a standard MySQL database and the application is written in PHP. The kicker is, we also use SQL Server databases ...
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How to structure our Javascript so that it is easily editable, testable, and can make calls to render a view without knowing specifics about the view
I am working on a web app that displays some data and uses javascript.
Right now, we are serving up parts of our js (to display certain types of information, ie "Render a View") via our server which ...
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Pending and Approval process
So let's say I have a DB table with 8 columns, one is a unique auto-incrementing used as ID. So I have a page that pulls in the info for each row based on query string ID. I want to give my users ...
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How to implement multi-theme PHP application
I am developing an application which will handle many virtual stores and I would like to have many themes that the user could choose anytime. I would to know what's the main ideia to implement it. I ...
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Python web application frontend for equipment diagnostics and interaction
My goal is to have a Python application that runs a web server which hosts the user interface, and based on interactions from a user in their browser, long running tasks get kicked off and through ...
