Here are my current options. .Net : Using WPF, Visual C#, SQLServer Java : Using Spring, Hibernate, Enterprise DB, web-based Can you suggest which one is better?, especially with regards to building complex forms. ...
I'm interested in learning more about the .NET CLR internals and how the language is abstracted away. Can anyone recommend a book or two? Thanks. ...
I like to use mind mapping software when I first start a project to gather specifications. What are the best free and commercial mind mapping applications? ...
Does anybody have best practices for exception handling ? When searching the web I find a lot of best practices on a code level (don't catch general exceptions, don't rethrow new exceptions etc.) What I am looking for is best practises on a higher level, stuff like : within an application catch exceptions on the ui level. log as much ...
I'm working on a real time application implemented using in a SOA-style (read loosely coupled components connected via some messaging protocol - JMS, MQ or HTTP). The architect who designed this system opted to use JMS to connect the components. This system is real time so there no need to queue up messages should one component fail (t...
I have an ASP.NET web site dedicated to reporting on PBX extension stats. It comprises many report pages, with HTML generated almost purely by code-behind (setting a Label control's Text property instead of using Response.Write), using un-parameterised string literal SQL queries that populate By Reference DataTable parameters. Maintena...
I've encountered lately some opinions saying that Object Oriented design/programming should not always be used. Do you know some use-cases that will not benefit from and should not use Object Oriented design? For example: there are some problems (concerns) that will benefit from AOP. ...
I find that whenever I begin writing an app in Java/C#, things start off good, but over time, as the app becomes more complex, it just gets more and more complicated. I've become aware of the fact that I'm not very good at design and high level architecture. All my classes become fairly strongly coupled and the design isn't "elegant" a...
I am in a process of designing a custom SharePoint application. On a previous project, all the data was kept in SharePoint lists and that's the way I've been trying now. But, I'm getting to the point where the data model grows and I feel a need to normalize it and split one logical entity into several physical lists. I'm wondering if I s...
I'm trying to get my head around AMQP. It looks great for inter-machine (cluster, LAN, WAN) communication between applications but I'm not sure if it is suitable (in architectural, and current implementation terms) for use as a software bus within one machine. Would it be worth pulling out a current high performance message passing fram...
Sometimes I come across this sentence "the best best practice is success" in several blog posts or podcast. Last I've heard this on some podcast; subject was Design related/architectural/security decisions. I don't believe this but it sounds right. And it may cause misunderstanding. What do you think about this? ...
We all know to keep it simple, right? I've seen complexity being measured as the number of interactions between systems, and I guess that's a very good place to start. Aside from gut feel though, what other (preferably more objective) methods can be used to determine the level of complexity of a particular design or piece of software? ...
What would be the best scheme for loading icons for an application? A little bit of a background... I’m creating an FTP-like application that has 4 panes (local folder pane, local file pane, cloud folder pane, cloud file pane). In both file panes, one of the columns is filename, which I want to display the icon next to (just like you ...
Are there any tools you would recommend for site architecture design and analysis? I've checked out several such as Poseidon UML, Adalon and FuseBuilder for ColdFusion, Mindmapper and a few others but have yet to find anything that seems to strike the right balance between allowing for quick high-level planning (as can be accomplished w...
Hello, I’m starting a project where I need to implement a light-weight interpreter. The interpreter is used to execute simple scientific algorithms. The programming language that this interpreter will use should be simple, since it is targeting non- software developers (for example, mathematicians.) The interpreter should support basic...
One of my goals is to be able to deploy a new version of a web application that runs side by side the old version. The catch is that everything shares a database. A database that in the new version tends to include significant refactoring to database tables. I would like to be rollout the new version of the application to users over ti...
My employer is a large Swiss Telco. We have many Systems used to transfer data for different tasks, e.g. Performance Management, Fault Management, Configuration Management etc. In order explain to "Management" (pointy haired, and other) how these systems interact, I collected information about data flow/formats/protocols into a "databa...
I need to create several applications that all share a Microsoft SQL Server database. These include ASP.NET web applications, WPF desktop applications, and probably the odd console app every now and then. I'd like to use the ADO.NET Entity Framework for data access, extend its objects for my business logic, and bind those objects to co...
I'm interested in reading about the various ways other developers and architects deal with the customization of certain areas of their applications for certain sites. Call outs to customer implemented pre and post processing, events doing the same, allowing business logic methods to be overridden, using strategies with pluggable modules...
Hi, I'm implementing an SOA at a large company, and I'm not sure which web service specifications (WS-*) actually make sense to implement. At a minimum, I'm looking at WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-Eventing, and WS-ReliableMessaging. However, there are several other standards that look interesting, but I don't know which ones are widel...