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Designing Selection Builder for Dynamic Parameters [closed]
Please give some Basic Idea how to design multi Selection builder or GUI,
let say,
I have following Criteria parameters with me like
Age,Designation,Salary,Interest,.......so on
if i want to ...
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Good design for a simple site that contains a blog [closed]
What is a good design for a simple web site with mostly static pages and a blog?
I am helping a friend build this for their small business. We are looking for a simple approach that can be ...
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Moving JavaFX desktop app to Java Web Start, can not get by security stops in Java8 applications on browsers [migrated]
I have a desktop application written in JavaFX. It's akin to a FORTRAN batch-type analytical program with a modern PC screen GUI.
I need to move it to run on the web, e.g., present a client-side GUI.
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Best way to let users/visitors alter the website design
What I am trying to do is give the users/visitors the option to alter the whole website based on their taste. So they can move for example the sticky bar from top to bottom, alter background colors, ...
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After HTML and CSS [closed]
I want to create dynamic professional websites. I have finished learning HTML and CSS, but as I understand, those two technologies allow to create static websites only.
I heard about PHP and ...
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1answer
129 views
Website as an API client vs using the API only when needed?
I'm developing a website (using Django) which will depend on an API for it's main functionality which is create/update/delete objects.
But the API also provides:
User sign up and login
User ...
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1answer
178 views
pattern to share objects between API and application
I'm having serious doubts about the design for my Web application.
I wanted to separate the business logic from the interface so I made a Web API that handles all the requests to the database.
It's ...
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2answers
345 views
Design of high performance file processing web application
I'm trying to design a web app with ability to scale but can't wrap my heads around few concepts. I want to design it right but im not a experienced programmer, i have more of a system engineering ...
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Web Application that is independent of web server software
Scenario
I haven't faced this requirement before, so I'm not confident with my solution. Our team drew up a plan to design a web application using a basic HAT stack for a project with a 4 month ...
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1answer
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What is the benefit of offloading email to a transactional mail service?
Why do so many people recommend offloading email to a transactional service such as Mandrill, Postmark or Sendgrid?
Is sending email via smtp really that much slower than sending a request out to ...
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1answer
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Processing csv files (alternative to business logic in DB)
We are working on a fulfillment system for an online book store. Everyday we receive tens of CSV files (about 90 files) with data about purchased orders.
Example:
OrderId | BookTitle | ...
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Refreshing website design and architecture
I have a website that is build with asp.net web forms. I would like to refresh design (using css, html5, responsive design) and also change it from web forms to asp.net MVC.
To me this is more of a ...
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Creating A News Feed with Relevant Data for App
I'm creating an app that currently allows users to create topics, vote in topics, follow topics, and chat in topics.
Currently working on creating a News Feed like Facebook or Twitter that brings ...
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Access Control List with many roles
I normally have 2 roles in most of my websites, i.e.
Admin and Member and create one folder for each Role like
/Root
/admin
/member
but now I have come up with 10 Roles besides Admin and ...
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5answers
273 views
All around design book for a developer (Javascript dev) [closed]
I have begun doing a lot of javascript development recently, mostly front-end but also using node.js. As I am currently in the transition from large company to startup, they expect me as a front end ...
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1answer
271 views
How should web development design patterns differ from software development design patterns? [closed]
I want to become a better developer, and so have been dedicating most of my free time outside of work to learning design patterns, and when to implement them (since I feel learning general patterns is ...
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2answers
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Distinction between API and frontend-backend
I'm trying to write a "standard" business web site. By "standard", I mean this site runs the usual HTML5, CSS and Javascript for the front-end, a back-end (to process stuff), and runs MySQL for the ...
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2answers
765 views
Freelance Web Developer tools [closed]
I'm thinking of freelancing and building web sites in my free time.
I have experience in C#/ASP.NET, JavaScript/jQuery as well as HTML/CSS and SQL. Thus, I feel like I have sufficient web ...
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2answers
658 views
Is programming in layers real? [duplicate]
I am fairly new in product development and I am trying to work over a product. The problem that I have realized is that people draw diagrams and charts showing different modules and layers.
But as I ...
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2answers
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business logic: client-side vs. server side
Let's say 3-5 years ago (more or less) n-tier application on the server side - and some javascript/html/CSS for the UI was a basic approach for web development.
Nowadays we can see that traditional ...
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2answers
243 views
How relevant are “Requests per second” benchmarks?
Whenever a new framework is released it is a given that someone somewhere will benchmark it against other available solutions.
One interesting benchmark is the "Requests per second" benchmark. For ...
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2answers
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Front end written in languages used for back end! [closed]
From my experice in web development, I know that languages like PHP,Java,Python..etc is used for backend development stuff (software that running on server), and for front end stuff languages like ...
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How should I handle two crons that update the database?
I'm working on a Bitcoin-clone block explorer (specifically Mincoin) which has a block timer of about 1 minute. For those unfamiliar with Bitcoin, basically a new data structure called a block is ...
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Recaching calculations
I'm working on a webapp which has an existing framework to cache values from the database. I have a requirement which needs multiple values from the database and the values have to be ...
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4answers
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How to edit the HTML of an ASP.net site?
Assume that I'm a front-end developer (HTML, CSS)
And some one who got their website built using ASP.NET came to me and asked for a new design and I don't know about ASP.NET.
Then, how can I change ...
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How to create better OO code in a relational database driven application where the database is poorly designed
I am writing a Java web application that consists mainly of a bunch of similar pages in which every page has several tables and a filter that applies to those tables. The data on these tables comes ...
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Compile and run submissions of online judge in the same or separate server?
I am going to make an online judge platform.
I have looked for some online judge platforms on the Internet for reference (I mean the platforms which have the source code available, and can be hosted ...
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Ways for a young programmer to not feel intimidated at my first REAL programming job? [duplicate]
I'd like to state first that I'm a 19 year old programmer living in Portugal, and have recently started my first REAL programming job.
I say "REAL" because at my previous jobs, I was normally the ...
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4answers
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What's the right way to work with a graphic designer?
Recently, we worked with a graphic designer (arranged by the client) to provide the skin for a Django+Bootstrap application we had built. The designer provided a series of static images of the new ...
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How to Implement Restricted Access to Application Features
I'm currently developing a web application, that provides some 'service' to the user. The user will have to select a 'plan' according to which she/he will be allowed to perform application specific ...
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6answers
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How safe are hidden AJAX requests that fake performance?
What is a hidden AJAX request?
I've noticed an increase in the usage of hidden AJAX requests designed to make a user's action appear to happen immediately. I'll refer to this type of AJAX request as ...
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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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On Developing Web Services with Global State
I'm new to web programming. I'm more experienced and comfortable with client-side code. Recently, I've been dabbling in web programming through Python's Google App Engine. I ran into some difficulty ...
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Mobile Compatibility: traditional website look vs native application ?
I have a question related to mobile compatible websites, I have seen two type of websites
One in which they adopt traditional website look and adjust website according to mobile screen, if they have ...
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What alternatives are there to using HTML/CSS layouts for websites? [closed]
Is there any existing in-use, or even just conceptual attempts at creating a markup or programmatic expressions for designing the layouts of websites other than HTML/CSS?
If there are others out ...
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5answers
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Good at Backend, but bad at front end
I want to start web development, I have been learning php.
I have experience in Java, Python, and C++
This experience has made me good at the back end side of web development.
But I am terrible at ...
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How to handle monetary values in PHP and MySql?
I've inherited a huge pile of legacy code written in PHP on top of a MySQL database. The thing I noticed is that the application uses doubles for storage and manipulation of data.
Now I came across ...
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Is it possible to build a single game to run in Facebook & Google+?
I was asked by my customer to build a Facebook game. The game would be something similar to Mafiawars.com where the game is hosted on a server and run through a frame on Facebook.
The thing is after ...
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How can I improve my skills while working on actual projects, in the absence of more experienced developers?
I'm the lead developer at a small company, working with C# and ASP.Net. Our team is small, 2-3 people, without much experience in development and design. I don't have the opportunity to learn from ...
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How can I get non-programmer colleagues on board with bespoke software rather than Dynamics CRM + Sharepoint?
I am working with a company which designs and builds one-off machines. They have been 'dabbling' with hosted Dynamics CRM and Sharepoint (on different servers!) in an attempt to centralise their data ...
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Is it better to define all routes in the Global.asax than to define separately in the areas?
I am working on a MVC 4 project that will serve as an API layer of a larger application.
The developers that came before me set up separate Areas to separate different API requests (i.e Search, ...
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TDD - Outside In vs Inside Out
What is the difference between building an application Outside In vs building it Inside Out using TDD?
These are the books I read about TDD and unit testing:
Test Driven Development: By Example
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What should be the minimal design/scope documentation before development begins?
I am a junior developer working on my own in the programming aspect of projects.
I am given a png file with 5-6 of the pages designed, most times in specific detail. From this I'm asked to develop ...
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3answers
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High-Level Application Architecture Question
So I'm really wanting to improve how I architect the software I code. I want to focus on maintainability and clean code. As you might guess, I've been reading a lot of resources on this topic and all ...
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5answers
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Should session variables be avoided?
I used to heavily rely on session variables in the past, but have recently found many of them to be unnecessary, using things like query string parameters instead.
A colleague of mine refuses to use ...
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Javascript, Text Annotations and Ideas
I am very curious to hear input from others on a problem I've been contemplating for some time now.
Essentially I would like to present a user with a text document and allow him/her to make ...
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Where should I insert data into the database?
I am making a pretty standard PHP sign up form that will validate the data the user entered and then redirect to a page with a success message. I would like to store this data in a database. Should I ...
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Integration of routes that are not resources in an MVC REST style application
I would like to keep my application relatively REST-pure for the sake of consistency, but I'm struggling philosophically with the relatively few views (maybe just one) that I'll need to build that ...
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Truly useful UML diagrams
UML has a jungle of Diagrams.
Profile Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Package Diagrams...
However, (IMH-and-not-too-experienced-O) I quite see that doing each and every diagram is overkill.
Therefore, ...
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returning null vs returning zero, which would be better?
I inherited a project that I am managing and having to maintain pending the redevelopment of the code base. At the moment I am being tasked with adding little features all over the place and have ...
