Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.
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Do I have to use pattern recognition to build this function? (python) [on hold]
I want to make a software which can screenshot frames which contain subtitles. I have solved the screenshot part. In order to solve the subtitle detection part, my first thought is to monitor an area ...
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How to detect end of queue in a parallelized web crawler?
Let's say I want to program a parallelized web crawler which has a shared FIFO queue (multi consumer/multi producer). The queue only contains URLs. How do I detect the end of the queue?
A worker ...
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One-person, informal project - creating good requirements
(For more backstory/explanation, see my previous question.)
I'm a middle school student working on a very, very informal project; my problem statement is as follows:
There is no way for ...
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Who should develop the database relational model diagrams?
Developing a co-founded idea software product can have sometimes misunderstood information about roles and responsibilities. A Management role is responsible for understand and delegate the operator's ...
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Practices for navigating uncertainty in software design
Background:
So I'm trying to create my first game engine for learning purposes. After looking up a few articles I was able to design the beginning portions of my engine to at least get me going. My ...
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Creating a good problem statement
< backstory >
I grabbed a book called Code Complete at a used bookstore the other day because I heard it was a great book, and started reading it. After around 10 pages I realized that I've been ...
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How to represent personality of a person in class?
Lets say I have a class Person.
class Person{
Person(std::string, int);
void walk();
void talk();
void eat();
private:
int age;
std::string() name;
};
Now lets say I want ...
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Correct Use Case in S/W requirements
So in S/W Requirements how to know a correct use case ?
for Example :
this one here seems wrong but I'm not sure
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Software package versioning confusion
I am working in embedded software domain and my primary work area is development of firmware for various MCUs.
I follow the folder structure as mentioned below for any firmware project to release the ...
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Scrum & Kanban Integration - How to coordinate dev team capacity?
I'm a Scrum Master of a team that is working on developing a software & maintaining its production issues.
I'm planning to combine Scrum and Kanban. Where Scrum is for development, and Kanban is ...
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Which email should be used to send mails from software
I have been working on a software which keeps a data (few excel sheets) and then send this as a email attachment to everyone who is registered. The software has an option of first registering the ...
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Best practice for using time
I am making a desktop based financial app in Ruby On Rails for my friend.
I have a little concern over the system time I am using since time log being very important. What if system time changes ...
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What is meant by the phrase “Software can replace hardware”?
Studying beginners course on hardware/software interface and operating systems, often come up the topic of if it would be better to replace some hardware parts with software and vice-versa. I can't ...
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How to establish set of rules when several teams managing a single code base
We have several teams in our section of the organization and each will be give features of the system to develop and deploy.
A feature includes back-end work as well as front-end work. All the teams ...
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What type of architecture style does the MEAN stack most resemble?
What type of software architecture style does the MEAN stack most resemble?
I am thinking Client/ Server because of the way messages are communicated between the different modules in both.
However, ...
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How could I learn spring/hibernate from an existing system [duplicate]
I am working with an existing J2EE web application in a company. I don't know spring/hibernate but I don't this web application has employed some features of them.
Everyday I am assigned different ...
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What are the differences between software interrupts/exceptions
So I wanted to know the differences between these two. I know software interrupts are sometimes referred to as exceptions, which makes the differences between the two somewhat confusing. Asking this ...
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Is there a name for this architectural pattern?
I'm looking for a source that discusses programs of this shape. Here are the broad strokes.
A user application hooks up to an interface that is used to send commands to an instrument.
Underneath ...
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Passing information between an Adapter and the Application Layer on Hexagonal Architecture
After starting the design of a sample application with Hexagonal Architecture I got to the application layer that should be basically an API to manipulate the domain in some way. My question is: In ...
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Access Code Structuring For Enterprise Software
I have just finished an iOS application for a company that will be sold commercially to schools and other organizations for a flat rate with an access code. I was wondering if anyone has had any ...
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Implementing pagination in DDD using data mappers
How should pagination be implemented in DDD with DataMappers? I thought about creating objects Range and Order and pass them to the find methods, but I don't know if that is a good solution since the ...
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How to use database between program and website
I am developing a program which will need a licensing system. The program will have to connect to a server to check in and validate the license. The server will therefore obviously need to have a ...
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Data Mapping object with lazy loaded properties
let's imagine we have an object User with a property of type Profile that can be accessed by the method getProfile and since we don't need the User's profile for every operation we decided to lazy ...
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Foreign Key Mapping friends of a User object
I have been reading the Foreign Key Mapping section of the Martin Fowler's book(PEAA) and I really liked it but I can't see being a really good approach for problems like mapping friends to a user, ...
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How to trigger an event when an expected action has not happened
I am trying to design an system which can trigger certain events if an action has not taken place.
e.g Suppose a person needs to fill 3 forms every hour and if he hasnt then a trigger should take ...
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Read/Write third party SQL Server database
One of my customers has a licensed software for business management and uses a SQL Server as database server (The database is open and I can run queries). They have a need that the current software ...
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Should different data resource types have different data mappers?
In my application I have to consume data from an API, do some processing and then store the data retrieved from the API in my own database. Should I have multiple Data Mappers? One for the API and ...
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Relation between UnitOfWork and DataMapper
I have been studying DDD for 1.5 weeks now, and I came a cross the use of the Unit Of Work pattern together with Data Mapper pattern. I understood why they are both important and when to use them but, ...
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Updating multiple entities at once using the data mapper pattern
I have been studying software architecture and design patterns for the past weeks, and for a week now I can't stop thinking about the performance problems that come with the flexibility of the data ...
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How to design recognition mechanism of a provisioning system?
I am building a provisioning system, where other software/app/device/user would connect to it. I want a create a recognition mechanism so that I can identify the thing that is connecting to the system ...
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Can developers emulate high server traffic in order to prepare for a live environment?
With the recent publishing of Pokemon Go, we're reminded yet again at how often online-dependent software (especially games) fails to run appropriately on launch-day due to server errors. I've been ...
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Duplicate Software and Add Functionality or Keep One with Versatile Functions
I was recently hired, and I found two exact applications with a single extra service in the duplicated version, and of course each application points on separate databases.
However, the original ...
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Using AGPL v3 software in an enterprise deployment
An enterprise utilizes the source code of a network software product licensed under the AGPL v3. It modifies the source code but does not share the changes with the original developer and copyright ...
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Would using an answer from any question and answer site in my source code be considered plagiarism?
case 1:
Sometimes I cannot figure out how to make things to work like in this question,Sending drive names to the combo box. In this case I know how to add items to a combo box as well as about ...
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How do you address the problem of dealing with an external service that stores your data and you want to keep in sync?
I'm integrating an enterprise application with an existing pattern.
The main problem is how to synchronize data between my system and an external system through RPC (HTTP API calls to be precise).
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Differences between the terms Modules, Plugins, Extensions
While developing software, certain parts of my applications are not planned to be necessarily deployed with the main software. And they need to be named correctly.
Now I understand apparently there ...
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Should we include 3rd party open source licenses if only copying syntax?
We're working on a commercial software product that uses partial syntax from 3rd party open source alternatives but none of the code from these. For example, the open source alternative have a static ...
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Should I re-write VB6 Code to Java [closed]
I work at a mid-sized company where an update is needed to an piece of the application due to an addition to the environment. The part that needs updated has been in place for 13 years, is fairly ...
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MVC as a subset of client-server architecture?
Can we say that MVC is subsystem (or subset, sub-architecture) of client-server architecture?
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Inferring system configuration using the existence of a file? any good?
This is a generic question about the idea of inferring some of the system configurations from the existence of a file or the lacking of it.
For example, we have a module of the system which is ...
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What's the equation to use for finding availability in software architecture?
I was trying to solve the following question in software architecture.
A software system crashed 20 times in an year and for each crash, it takes 2 minutes to restart. Calculate availability in ...
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How can a software code be made modifiable without being visible to the end user?
I wish to supply a software product with GUI, etc. for operating it. And the software utility is research so the users will want to tweak it to some extent and implement their own preferred algorithms ...
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Software Architecture: CQRS and port modeling
I have a PersonComponent, which an internal implementation is based on CQRS pattern. So which one is better way to model ports (and their interfaces):
I'm not totally sure that how high or low -level ...
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Do I have to use GPL for my linux application? If yes, how not to legally?
I've written a linux application that interfaces with a lot of GPL software. My application is written in javascript/HTML/CSS/python and uses MariaDB on a CentOS 7 platform (it also uses jquery and a ...
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Does algorithm design belong to software engineering? [closed]
In academic meaning, it seems to me that
algorithm design is studied in a high/abstract level of computation (computability, complexity), although software engineering is also studied in high/...
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Single tracking algorithm for many carriers [closed]
When it comes to tracking packages from a multitude of carriers, is it possible to wrap a globally accepted way of pulling tacking status or must I write support for each carrier we deal with?
I have ...
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Why doing everything with one software project is wrong? [closed]
I am newly employed by a company. After a couple of weeks, I have heard lots of time that there is a huge project which most of the programmers are working on it. They call it something like Managing ...
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How to write tests that make sense for visualization software?
I have a fairly large piece of software which takes certain file types and visualizes them / creates a host of buttons for manipulation of the image plotted. I feel like I'm finding bugs / pieces of ...
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Accusing closed source of using open source?
I might be missing something obvious, but how can an open source community accuse a closed source developer of copyright/license infringement? That is, if a piece of closed source software used open ...
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Git Workflow for BDD?
Recently I was working with Behavior Driven Development approach in Rails using RSpec and Capybara. Everything looks okay and it even can speed up whole planning-development bridge in my work (by ...
