I'm primarily a designer, with a fairly high level of understanding of CSS and HTML. I have an idea for a very simple iPhone app, largely involving a timer, an animated graphic, and some sound. If I get more advanced there could be some simple customization settings I have no understanding of Objective C, or C of any kind for that matt...
The age old question. Where should you put your business logic, in the database as stored procedures ( or packages ), or in the application/middle tier? And more importantly, Why? Assume database independence is not a goal. ...
I've read a bit about Google's Mondrian, and I've seen Atlassian's Crucible demonstrated - I'm convinced that the tools have value. Are there open-source code review tools? It would be used on a proprietary codebase, so it can't be a public site or service (eg: Google Code's features include some of those of Crucible). We have release...
I'm curious what tools people have found useful for building flowcharts. Obviously MS Visio and OmniGraffle come to mind but they both feel so bloated and also tend to emphasize the document formatting/printing side and less on helping to organize the actual logic. Is there anything else out there that fellow developers would recommend? ...
From day 1 of my programming career, I started with object-oriented programming. However, I'm interested in learning other paradigms (something which I've said here on SO a number of times is a good thing, but I haven't had the time to do). I think I'm not only ready, but have the time, so I'll be starting functional programming with F#....
When I go back to school after Thanksgiving, I'll be taking a course in CS Theory covering topics such as deterministic and nondeterministic finite state machines, turing machines, pushdown automata and a few other things. However, I haven't found a good application that can produce a visual representation of them as well as testing how ...
I have created an application which needs 'hand-over' to the support group in the next month. The application is fairly small (2 months development), and consists of two client side applications and a database, it's written in c# for the windows platform. I have a broad idea of what to include in a support document, but I haven't neede...
I'm looking for an application that would lock my computer and display a screensaver with an away message that I set when I lock it. The idea is that when I go off somewhere during work, my co-workers would know where I'm off to instead of puzzling over my empty desk. Does such an application exist? If not, how would I go about making...
This is very similar to Where should cross-platform apps keep their data?, but expanding on it a bit. There is some good advice on where the parent directory for data should be, but not so much on what a given app's directory should be. For example, let's say we have a cross-platform application, written by My Corp, within My Brand, ca...
Other than for testing purposes or plain inertia: Sometimes it's the older version of some program that is more suitable for what you need. Perhaps it's because of feature-creep in the later versions or because of some compatibility which the newer one doesn't support, or just because there isn't enough of a difference to upgrade for, et...
Yesterday I asked a question about COBOL guy moving to modern platforms and I got some great answers. I was thinking about what kind of applications get built with java or .net? I know for sure that most corporate portals, blogs, discussion forms, surveys, tracking who registered which course, progress of your e-learning and stuff like ...
Any one using any cool Air App that can either hook into Google Reader and most important add RSS/ATOM feeds? I tried ReadAir - but it didn't work well. ...
Now is time to write all for web-based applications? Write web applications is slower than winforms-based applications? When to write web based and when to write desktop based? ...
Hi, I just wanted to try to build a project with django. Therefore I have a (basic) question on how to manage such a project. Since I cannot find any guidelines or so on how to split a project into applications. Let's take a kind of SO as an example. Which applications would you use? I'd say there should be the applications "users" and ...
I have worked a bit with Django and I quite like its project/applications model : you can build a Django project by assembling one or more Django applications. These applications can be autonomous, or some applications can be built on top of other applications. An application can easily rely on another application's models, as well as ...
The year is now 2009, happy new year for starters. However I'd like to hear your opinions on what applications helped you the most 2008. The requirements for the application is that it had a significant release or was brand new in 2008. For new releases to existing applications, please include a note about some significant changes this...
I would like to learn how a program can be written and installed without the use of the .net framework. I'm looking for a project that is known to be lightweight and robust. Something like the uTorrent client. ...
I thought it should be a config file, but cannot find it. thanks ...
Is there any real use for self modifying code? I know that they can be used to build worms/viruses, but I was wondering whether there is some good reason that a programmer may have to use self modifying code. Any ideas? Hypothetical situations are welcome too. ...
hai any one help, am developing an i-phone application. In that i have face one functional module obstacles that i am in need to load more than one web link in a particular UIWebView as similar to i-frame concept in web page is it possible.... ...