Let's say I have a list of categories for navigation on a web app. Rather than selecting from the database for evey user, should I add a function call in the application_onStart of the global.asax to fetch that data into an array or collection that is re-used over and over. If my data does not change at all - (Edit - very often), would...
LINQ simplifies database programming no doubt, but does it have a downside? Inline SQL requires one to communicate with the database in a certain way that opens the database to injections. Inline SQL must also be syntax-checked, have a plan built, and then executed, which takes precious cycles. Stored procedures have also been a rock-...
What's the best way to detect an application crash in XP (produces the same pair of 'error' windows each time - each with same window title) and then restart it? I'm especially interested to hear of solutions that use minimal system resources as the system in question is quite old. I had thought of using a scripting language like Auto...
What, at a minimum, should an application health-monitoring system do for you (the developer) and/or your boss (the IT Manager) and/or the oeprations (on-call) staff? What else should it do above the minimum requirements? Is monitoring the 'infrastructure' applications (ms-exchange, apache, etc.) sufficient or do individual user applic...
Application frameworks such as DotNetNuke, Eclipse, Websphere and so forth are available today which offer customizable frameworks that can be used as dashboard applications. Do you use these or do you and your peers keep writing amazing, modular, maintainable dashboard frameworks which you support yourselves? Are there any good web ba...
How much of an impact does a faster application count considering the competition, or does features trump everything? Where is the balance point, and for what type of apps? ...
I would like to use javascript to develop general-purpose GUI applications. Initially these are to run on Windows, but I would like them to ultimately be cross-platform. Is there a way to do this without having to make the application run in a browser? ...
Looking for a good rss/feed reader for windows or if there are any good cross platforms one i would be really amazed, or good web services (dont like the google one). I want something simplistic and minimalistic. ...
If you have a project, that releases a library and an application, how you handle version-numbers between the two. Example: Your project delivers a library, that convert different file-formats into each other. The library is released for inclusion into other applications. But you also release a command-line-application, that uses this l...
I need recommendations for good application servers for monitoring and debugging PHP and Mysql running on linux. It should have a GUI, query profiling (log slow queries etc.) and capture PHP errors with environment coniditions. I am aware only of the Zend Platform that provides those features and I'm looking for alternatives. ...
I have recently come across a situation where code is dynamically loading some libraries, wiring them up, then calling what is termed the "application entry point" (one of the libraries must implement IApplication.Run()). Is this a valid "Appliation entry point"? I would always have considered the application entry point to be before ...
hi there :P can you suggest how to create a test enviroment to simulate various types of bandwidths and traffic in a web app ? Or maybe a program open source wich does this against localhost ? I think this is a very important subject when programming web apps but it is not a usual topic, the only way i can imagine to create such kind o...
Hi, I believe several of us have already worked on a project where not only the UI, but also data has to be supported in different languages. Such as - being able to provide and store a translation for what I'm writing here, for instance. What's more, I also believe several of us have some time-triggered events (such as when expiring ...
Is it just a buzzword that means nothing or is there a definition of what makes an application (desktop or web) an enterprise application? ...
Good day. I have a program thats launches an external application. That external app has a right click sub menu on it which I need to disable. Is it possible (without modifying the external app) to disable the right click? Maybe permission or group policies and etc. Thanks. ...
Does anyone know of a sample distributed application (.NET or J2EE) using RMI or Web Services? ...
Generally, MVC frameeworks have a structure that looks something like: /models /views /controllers /utils However, in a web application suite, I've decided that clumping all models, views, and controllers together probably wouldn't be the best for clarity, unless I treated the system as one application instead of an application suite....
Hi there, I maintain an application which, during the course of two years, has constantly required new hardware to be even usable, due to the amount of new users / new data inserted. However, justifying the investiment is sometimes very hard to do. I started to wonder - how can I establish the maximum number of users a web application...
Just this - How do you add a timer to a C# console application? It would be great if you could supply some example coding. ...
Is there a simple and lightweight program to search over a text file and replace a string with regex? ...