I know someone who has a one-man company developing applications in Delphi and Pascal. He is running into problems in handling the workload. Thus, he needs to find an employee. Having trouble finding people, he said his company is not attractive for graduated students. One of the reasons was that he uses a platform that is not that popu...
I built an on-demand web app on Symfony 1.0. Other than brutal memory consumption, I am happy with it. Should I upgrade to 1.1/1.2? What are the main practical benefits you have enjoyed most after upgrading? ...
Quite often I come across a nice looking or functional website, and wonder what technology was used to create it. What techniques are available to figure out what a particular website was built with? Few frameworks seem to include any kind of generator meta tag like web editors do. Are there any tell-tale signs of particular languages a...
I once came across a validation framework for java, where you wrote one method that protected the integrity of the data-type and any CRUD operations on that data-type automatically called this method. Does anyone know what this framework is? ...
Hi all, If you were going to start building web sites as a consulting business on the side -- keeping your day job -- and you also had a toddler and a wife, what frameworks/tools would you pick to save you typing? Any language. I'm looking for a productivity superstar stack that won't tie my hands too much when I have to update the...
I've done lots of java web development using jsps and servlets, and I have found this approach to be straightforward and flexible. Some of the groundwork involved though - such as managing database connections - is rather tedious, and it takes a fair amount of work just to get a new web app off the ground. I'm therefore considering us...
This project started as a development platform because i wanted to be able to write games for mobile devices, but also being able to run and debug the code on my desktop machine too (ie, the EPOC device emulator was so bad): the platforms it currently supports are: Window-desktop WinCE Symbian iPhone The architecture it's quite compl...
Hypothetically, if I were to build the same app using a few popular/similar frameworks, say PHP(cakePHP|Zend), Django, and Rails, should the memory consumption of each be roughly the same? Also, I'm sure many have evaluated or used each and would be interested in which you settled on and why? ...
Hi, Ive been researching into PHP frameworks. I am trying to understand the utility of these frameworks. For e.g. does facebook use a framework? I guess not. Also, say I am developing a product which I want to sell users. Now suppose a use a framework like Zend, then I am unnecessarily imposing restrictions of using PHP 5 only. A lot...
This is a(n) historical question, not a comparison-between-languages question: This article from 2005 talks about the lack of a single, central framework for Python. For Ruby, this framework is clearly Rails. Why, historically speaking, did this happen for Ruby but not for Python? (or did it happen, and that framework is Django?) Also,...
I have this code: dojo.declare("City", null, { constructor : function(cityid, cityinfo){ } }); dojo.declare("TPolyline", GPolyline, { constructor : function(points, color){ }, initialize : function(map){ }); What should be it's jQuery equivalent? ...
Is there a recommended way to bounce an asp.net application besides touching web.config from inside the application? is HttpRuntime.UnloadAppDomain(); the preferred way to do this ? and if so where do you do this? in the unload of a page or some other place in the application ...
Is RoR to Ruby equivalent to what the .NET framework is to VB.NET? ...
Hi, I'm trying to find any JavaScript frameworks whose sole aim is to standardize the DOM and JavaScript across all browsers. What I'm not looking for is frameworks which create their own API to solve these common problems. I want something that will allow me to call for example myElement.dispatchEvent("click") in Internet Explorer. Not...
I would like to build an application that will run on a web, this is for an enterprise solution, but I don't know what kind of framework that I'll be using, does anyone out there could recommend a framework that is best suited in .NET/ASP.NET application that could handle DAL, BLL and GUI, other than CSLA.NET? ...
I would like to know how to use Lucene.NET for indexing and searching my business entities. I see NHibernate.Search has nice features for this issue, but it still needs DB. I don't need DB, I only want to store all data in my Lucene.NET's index. I also see java framework like Compass can do that stuff easily, but it's not .NET library. ...
After reading the Jinja2 documentation, I'm interested in employing it in future Django projects. However, I'm wondering if anyone has encountered any drawbacks or gotchas when using Jinja2 templates with Django? If so, how did you work around them? I wouldn't mind hearing about positive experiences either, just to get a good cross se...
What is the difference between Django and Joomla? Or better still what is the difference between Content Managers (Joomla, Drupal etc) and Web Framworks (Django, Symphony, Zend etc) ...
I have a relatively simple application up and working with some basic functionality which i have built as a bit of a project. I would like to now build on that, and add some more complex features, including login. The code has got quite complex, and it's written in plain php, so all the presentation code is mixed in with the logic. I h...
Hello, I am just beginning the move to the .NET Framework 3.5. I use CruiseControl.NET for our Continuous Integration and would like to know how other people approach setting this up. I have a branch of the source code entitled NET3.5 but for now am keeping the trunk as 2.0. I have created two CruiseControl projects that checkout from...