You see a lot of issues on TheDailyWorseThanFailure.com that all come down to people reinventing the wheel (poorly). How do you mitigate this? Is there a "best" approach to learning a new library/framework/etcetera? ...
I'm faced with writing a framework to simplify working with a large and complex object library (ArcObjects). What guidelines would you suggest for creating a framework of this kind? Are static methods preferred? How do you handle things like logging? How do you future proof your framework code from changes that a vendor might introduce? ...
I'm using JBoss Seam Framework, but it's seems to me isn't very popular among java developers. I want to know how many java programmers here are using it, and in what kind of projects. Is as good as django, or RoR? ...
I am interested in writing applications for the iPhone and the Android platform. I was hoping to find a middleware / framework that abstracted away some of the differences in the APIs and allow me to specify the target platform at build time. Is there such a framework existing or planned? ...
I want to develop a Q/A site with features substantially similar to stackoverflow, but targeted to a different niche (electrical/hardware engineering as opposed to software engineering). The code that runs stackoverflow is not opensource, and from a previous mention of it on the podcast I believe I can assume it never will be. (Though u...
I'm currently using and enjoying using the Flex MVC framework PureMVC. I have heard some good things about Cairngorm, which is supported by Adobe and has first-to-market momentum. And there is a new player called Mate, which has a good deal of buzz. Has anyone tried two or three of these frameworks and formed an opinion? Thanks! ...
A little background: I've been looking at a few php framework recently and it came down to 2 framework. The zend framework or Code Igniter. I prefer CI because if it's simple design. It's very barebone and just kept it simple. But the thing I didn't like is the weak template system. The template system is important for me because I wil...
Starting a new project and would like to use one of the MVC framworks. ASP.NET MVC is still in preview but Spring.net is in production and has a history with Java. I'd like to know the general lowdown between the two. Current questions.. What are the major feature differences? What about deployment/hosting issues? Future support? Do y...
I need to choose a framework for a new project I will start from scratch. The application performance requirements are very low. It needs to allow fast development and enforce good development practices. The final application should be easy to deploy and handle well database migrations. The application will handle most of the time simp...
I'd like to do some server-side scripting using Python. But I'm kind of lost with the number of ways to do that. It starts with the do-it-yourself CGI approach and it seems to end with some pretty robust frameworks that would basically do all the job themselves. And a huge lot of stuff in between, like web.py, Pyroxide and Django. Wha...
Are there conventions for function names when using the Perl Test::More or Test::Simple modules? I'm specifically asking about the names of functions that are used to set up a test environment before the test and to tear down the environment after successful completion of the test(s). cheers, Rob ...
What is the best technology/framework to use for an online e-commerce site? ...
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...
Can someone suggest some good automated test suite framework for Perl? ...
One I am aware of is Perl::Critic And my googling has resulted in no results on multiple attempts so far. :-( Does anyone have any recommendations here? Any resources to configure Perl::Critic as per our coding standards and run it on code base would be appreciated. ...
I am trying to code TDD style in PHP and one of my biggest stumbling blocks (other than lack of a decent IDE) is that I have to make my own hacked together IoC container just to inject all my mock objects properly. Has anyone used an Ioc container in php? All I've been able to find is PHP IOC on the ever-annoying phpclasses.org and it ...
How can I tell from the assemblyName, or Assembly class (or others like it), whether an assembly is part of the .net framework (ie System.windows.Forms)? So far I've considered the PublicKeyToken, and CodeBase properties, but these are not always the same for the whole framework. Edit: The reason I want this info is to get a list of ...
MooTools/Cappuccino/SproutCore/Django/RubyOnRails/Pylons/jQuery/etc Help, too many buzzwords out there. I spend more time reading about them than actually having time to learn and use them...what to do? ...
We are currently looking to adopt some type of "standard" developer framework and have looked into using the Enterprise Library. Would you recommend using these blocks as the foundation for software development, or should we do something home grown? ...
Question I'm fairly familiar with many of the PHP frameworks out there, but I'm wondering which ones actually integrate AJAX functionality and which ones do it well? Ideally I'd love to find a framework that would allow me to avoid JavaScript alltogether (at least for typical/basic JavaScript functionality). Does such a thing exist? If...