Is there a general rule of thumb to follow when storing web application data to know what database backend should be used? Is the number of hits per day, number of rows of data, or other metrics that I should consider when choosing? My initial idea is that the order for this would look something like the following (but not necessarily,...
I'd like to build a real quick and dirty administrative backend for a rails app I have been attached to at the last minute. I've looked at activescaffold and streamlined and think they are both very attractive and they should be simple to get running but I don't quite understand how to set up either one as a backend admin page. They se...
What do you think.. are clean URLs a backend or frontend 'discipline' ...
In lighthttpd, when I set: server.network-backend = "freebsd-sendfile" the file upload just hangs for files > ~1MB, but if I change it to: server.network-backend = "writev" It seems to work fine, but I'm getting lower performance by using that setting. Is there a better solution? ...
Our application often connects to different king of back-ends over web services, MQ, JDBC, proprietary (direct over socket) and other kids of transport. We already have a number of implementations that let us connect from our application to these back-ends and while all of these implementations implement the common java interface, they d...
I want to make a compiled language. I am currently evaluating backends. So far I am looking at C because of its speed of execution, compiling, and a small, easy to use compiler called TCC. Having read the discussions here about using it as an intermediate language, I am trying to think about how to make it compatible with garbage collec...
I'm thinking about creating an application for the iPhone and Android that will need to access a common backend to retrieve account information. Can both access a web service over https? What other way would allow me to have one interface to the backend that is accessible by both? ...
I've been playing around with LLVM hoping to learn how to use it. However, my mind is boggled by the level of complexity of the interface. Take for example their Fibonacci function int fib(int x) { if(x<=2) return 1; return fib(x-1) + fib(x-2); } To get this to output LLVM IR, it takes 61 lines of code!!! They a...
What are CAD applications (Rhino, Autocad) of today written in and how are they organized internally ? I gave as an example, Autocad and Rhino, although I would love to hear of other examples as well. I'm particularly interested in knowing what is their backend written in (multilanguage ?) and how is it organized, and how do they handle...
I am writing a distributed DB Application with an Access Front end. Essentially an mde with some forms and reports. Should I use an access mdb to hold the backend tables or use MySQL or some other database? ...
I am writing a Tiger compiler in F# and I have decided to emit x86 assembly. I know the basics of how a machine is constructed and also a bit of assembly, but not enough to write a good compiler back-end. What resources can you recommend for learning what I need to know? Where can I look up information such as calling conventions, etc....
Hy, I'm wondering what's the best way to create an Admin (backend) section in a Grails app ? I want to create an Admin folder in the Controllers folder of Grail to put all my admin controllers. But Then will I have to create manually the URL mapping for each Admin controllers ? I have already generate all my frontend gsp with the ge...
Hi all What I want to achieve is to get a website screenshot from any website in python. Env: Linux ...
Hello everyone, I spend a lot of time (actually too much time) developping back-office applications whose main purpose is content management and web application configurations. Here is how I can describe these apps : - Made with PHP - Using a MySQL or Postgres or SQLite database - Made of a lot of pages and features - Very simple featu...
I'm writing a database driven windows application and both the executable and database need to be installed on the customers machine. Is there a database that I can use as a backend to my application that the user can't get into even though the user is using the same machine that the database is stored on. As far as I can tell, Postgre...
Is JSF the only option? The HTML front end uses JQuery as a front-end scripting framework. ...
I see a back-end as server side code and front-end being the UI layer. But sometimes I see authors using back-end for administration modules, which in my opinion should be called back-office modules. ...
Hello, I was searching for a plugin/gem solution to extend the native rails i18n for storing my translations into my database. Maybe I used the wrong search terms, but all I found was the information, that changing the backend IS actually possible and this blog entry which descripes how to write my own backend. It's hard to imagine, th...
I am a frontend developer who also does some backend work. I want to write an entire web app in php. Somehow, my backend team is hell-bent on using EJB, Struts etc... Their reason for not using php is this -> "it is not advisable to write data-accessing code, that has queries etc.. in php. the backend is better written in ejb it is more...
Dear Stackoverflow Readers, I wanted to know what are the important considerations to keep in mind while doing Backend Testing. My project does not have GUI basically it is all Backend related work. Complete Server Side is in Java and we are using Oracle Db. I would really appreciate if you all can share some expert advice on what...