Hi, Can anyone out there recommend a good online resource for CSS 'design patterns'? I know design patterns in a software context usually refer to OO based design patterns, but I mean design patterns in the broader sense of the term: i.e. common, clean solutions to common problems / tasks. An example of such a resource would be this l...
What would be the best way to design a threaded commenting system so that it doesn't hammer the database? ...
Is it completely against the Java way to create struct like objects? class SomeData1 { public int x; public int y; } I can see a class with accessors and mutators being more Java like. class SomeData2 { int getX(); void setX(int x); int getY(); void setY(int y); private int x; private int y; } The ...
Was looking to get peoples thoughts on keeping a Lucene index up to date as changes are made to the domain model objects of an application. The application in question is a Java/J2EE based web app that uses Hibernate. The way I currently have things working is that the Hibernate mapped model objects all implement a common "Indexable"...
How do you handle database exceptions in your application? Are you trying to validate data prior passing it to DB or just relying on DB schema validation logic? Do you try to recover from some kind of DB errors (e.g. timeouts)? Here are some approaches: Validate data prior passing it to DB Left validation to DB and handle DB exception...
How much do you rely on database transactions? Do you prefer small or large transaction scopes ? Do you prefer client side transaction handling (e.g. TransactionScope in .NET) over server side transactions or vice-versa? What about nested transactions? Do you have some tips&tricks related to transactions ? Any gotchas you...
In my previous question most commenters agreed that having validation logic both at client & server sides is a good thing. However there is a problem - you need to keep your validation rules in sync between database and client code. So the question is how can we deal with it ? One approach is to use ORM techniques, modern ORM to...
I joined a new company about a month ago. The company is rather small in size and has pretty strong "start-up" feel to it. I'm working as a Java developer on a team of 3 others. The company primarily sells a service to for businesses/business-type people to use in communicating with each other. One of the main things I have been, and wi...
What kind of programming problems are state machines most suited for? I have read about parsers being implemented using state machines, but would like to find out about problems that scream out to be implemented as a state machine. ...
Hey guys, Basically I'm going to go a bit broad here and ask a few questions to get a bit of a picture of how people are handling UI these days. Lately I've found it pretty easy to do some fancy things with UI design and with WPF specifically we're finding new ways to do layouts that are better looking and more functional for the user,...
What techniques do you know\use to create user-friendly GUI ? I can name following techniques that I find especially useful: Non-blocking notifications (floating dialogs like in Firefox3 or Vista's pop-up messages in tray area) Absence of "Save" button MS OneNote as an example. IM clients can save conversation history automatically...
When it comes to web-design, I am horrible at producing anything remotely good looking. Thankfully there are a lot of free sources for design templates. However, a problem with these designs is that they just cover a single page, and not many use cases. If you take a look at CSS Zen Gardens, they have 1 single HTML file, and can radicall...
I am a rather oldschool developer with some basic knowledge of software design principles and a good background on classic (gof) design patterns. While I continue my life as such I see lots of strange buzzwords emerge: Aspectoriented Design, Componentoriented Design, Domain Driven Design, Domain Specific Languages, Serviceoriented (SOA...
What is the best way to layout a large django project? The tutuorials provide simple instructions for setting up apps, models, and views, but there is less information about how apps and projects should be broken down, how much sharing is allowable/necessary between apps in a typical project (obviously that is largely dependent on the p...
What tips to people have for getting hobby/home projects done? What tools do you use for designing & planning code? (Pen and paper, software, both?) Do you use software to plan and track your project? How do you choose libraries to use (e.g. to make yourself productive)? Are there any good books/sites on planning small projects? How do...
In the course of your software development lifecycle, what essential design artifacts do you produce? What makes them essential to your practice? The project I'm currently on has been in production for 8+ years. This web application has been actively enhanced and maintained over that time. While we have CMMI based policies and processes...
I am designing a new System and I have a lot of Interfaces that will grow over time with the system. What is the best practice to name this interfaces ISomethingV01 ISomethingV02 etc and I do this public interface ISomething{ void method(); } then I have to add method 2 so now what I do? public interface ISomethingV2:ISometh...
I am designing a new system and I want to know IoC and more important when to use it. Does it have to be implemented with interfaces or can be done with classes? Thanks ...
Does anyone know of any good tutorials for creating a website template (like something you'd find on http://www.oswd.org) using Paint.NET? I don't have a personal copy of Photoshop so I thought I'd see how far I could push Paint.Net. Most of the tutorials I've found are for creating buttons or logos. I'd like to be able to create a we...
As one of those people that never got around to properly learning design (or having no talent for it), the design seems to be the step always holding me back. It's not a problem for rich-clients, as the standard GUI toolkits provide some acceptable ways to design a good-looking interface, but the web is another story. Question: Does an...