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What is a good analogy to explain how software development is different than building a bridge? [duplicate]
If you had a manager, a couple of levels above you, tell you that building software is like building a bridge, how would you respond to that?
If this manager truly believes that we should be able to ...
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Application architecture for subscriber based system
I am planning on building a system where users "subscribe" to "records".
Records are updated on a schedule, several times a day.
When records are updated, the user should be notified that these ...
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Incorporating web designer's HTML pages into an MVC4 application
We are embarking on a new project which will be using the ASP .NET MVC4 platform.
I have been informed that the design is being outsourced to a custom design firm and they will be supplying us with ...
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Architecting related products for different markets: MEF?
Hopefully, this question is not too open-ended...
I have been tasked with taking a 3 year old application (.NET 4.0, WPF, WCF, EF 4, SQL 2008) that was designed for a very specific market X and ...
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Bothering to cater to non-JavaScript clients? [duplicate]
Considering that it's April, 2013; do I still need to worry about non-JavaScript capable/enabled clients?
Note: This question excludes having helper text with: JavaScript is required to view this ...
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Application Architecture
first of all I am new here and I hope that this is the right place for my question. I have a question about the recommended architecture of a project.
IDEA: Automate some calculations concerning to ...
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1answer
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Application Design with a Shared Database
I have a generic design question that relates to enterprise applications but I think that software developers from other types of projects may have experience with this as well.
The scenario is ...
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1answer
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What are the reasons for rebuild and redeployment libraries?
It's difficult to understand the meaning of the question from the topic's name.
Here is what I mean.
I'm watching Uncle Bob's Clean Code Episodes. In many episodes where he is talking about SOLID ...
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Will a program ever crash if the main loop is put in a try/catch block [closed]
If we have a class main and the constructor of main constructs our setupclass and we put this class in a try catch in main.
Theoratically Will all errors go into catch? If they will how will it ...
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Mock up class object
For example I have class ItemDownloader which has method downloadItem. This method creates instance of another class - Download to perform actual downloading.
Question is: I want to test ...
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2answers
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Identifying Domain Services & Application Services when doing DDD
-I'm trying to figure out how to identify Application Services in my application. I think I can identify a Domain service by 2 things:
It acts as a facade to the repository.
It holds business logic ...
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2answers
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Web application (Spring, JSF) forks, how to reuse existing code for subprojects?
my question is going to be somewhat philosophical and "architectural oriented" so bear with me.
Right now we have existing Java web application built on top of Spring and JSF(facelets) with maven. ...
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Can an entire software infrastructure stack be built entirely from source in-house? Is it practical and sustainable?
I'm a big fan of using open source software but I mostly use community binary releases for the job.
I'm wondering about companies that go the extra degree and build everything they use in their ...
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Establishing an API to provide end-user apps/scripts access to multiple types of databases
Question and Context
I am currently working on a project where the main question is, how do we insert an API between the database and end-users who may develop applications/scripts of their own that ...
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1answer
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DB Schema for packaging products / services together under a single pric / Offer
I'm trying to 'conceive' the business logic of this website that have many activities, that the users can build their "combo" and get discounts depending on their choices and how long they are willing ...
