frameworks

ColdSpring in Five minutes

I'm rereading ColdSpring in 5 minutes. It says "The UserService needs the UserGateway, and the UserGateway needs the ConfigBean". No it does not! The UserService does not need anything. It doesn't call UserGateway. All it does is set a variable that it happens to call userGateway by coincidence, but it doesn't call the User Gateway co...

Framework or CMS?

I am learning web development and I'm very serious about trying to find a career in it. That being said, I have consistently been told that "doing" is the best way to learn and now I have a vision for a site that I would like to create. I have spent some time with learning frameworks to find a preference, such as Rails, Django, and .NE...

Which PHP framework would you suggest for this case?

I want to create an platform for a local old-timer club, which has: built in forum (not so over sized like phpbb & others. lightweight and highly integrated.) member profile with 20 fields members can create a garage members add car pictures to their garages others can vote and comment the pictures members can message each other and ...

What version of .NET ships with what version of Windows?

Looking for a list of Windows versions (service packs included) and what version of .NET is natively1 available. Example: Windows A - .NET Framework Z Windows A Service Pack 1 - .NET Framework Z Windows A Service Pack 2 - .NET Framework Y 1 - Natively means that is there with no installs done. ...

WPF Unit testing framework

Is there a framework that supports UnitTesting of WPF applications. It should not be to difficult to establishe, because I don't want that writing the tests takes ten times longer than implementing a small feature. ...

ORM frameworks

I need to collect some information about existing ORM solutions. Please feel free to write about any programming language. Can you tell about the best ORM framework you ever use and why is it better then others? ...

Which MVC framework in Perl has its own standalone server?

I am creating an automated testing framework in Perl for regression tests. I would like to post my results from the test machines. I have used django before where the server ran standalone with no installation needed. Which MVC framework in Perl has its own standalone server? Basically, which of the Perl MVC frameworks is closest to dja...

Java Imaging Framework

Is there any Open source or Commercial Java frameworks for doing image operations such as converting the images from one format to other and scaling the images etc. There should be no installation.Set of jars that are in classpath that will do the job. I have looked into the java-image-scaling library but it is having issues. Thanks i...

Multimedia framework for video playback in a GUI application?

Some time ago I started a project in which I needed to do the following things: Play videos: In any common format (avi, mpeg, xvid, etc.) Be able to pause and reposition the stream programmatically. Be able to set the playback speed (not mandatory, but desirable) Let me paint custom graphics (kept in sync with the video) over the pla...

Can I use Code Igniter with Concrete5?

I am building a site that will (obvisouly) have a front end public portion that I want to drive with Concrete5, but then it will also have a members section that I would like to build with Code Igniter. Does anyone have any idea how I could do that? I guess I could just throw the Code Igniter code into a sub directory, but would I run ...

Should exception messages that are targeted to the developer be localized?

I am referring to exception messages that show the developer is incorrectly using an API. For example incorrectly passing a null to method. So the type of exception that the developer will get the first time they have run their incorrect code. The type of exception message that should never get to be displayed to the user of a system. ...

Best PHP Framework for someone who has never used one?

Looking into using frameworks for some personal PHP apps - the only one I have ever vaguely used us codeigniter, are the any better well documented frameworks available? ...

Design questions about a plugginable Java framework

Hello, During the last 4 years, I was working on a project in my spare time having two goals : to improve myself as a software engineer and to build something which(I hoped) it will help me to build faster and better Java applications. I've always liked modular applications, so I though a plugginable framework wouldn't be bad to have. ...

Do javascript developers need to know jquery?

If you were to hire a javascript developer would you expect them to know jquery? I just started using stack overflow this week and knew that jquery led the pack, but didn't realize the extent of it until I noticed that MooTools (my favorite) has 59 questions while jquery has over 4000. (of course, a good statistician could attribute jqu...

facebook-ish like iframe in ajax

Hello, Can anyone here expand on how I can create a frame within a page, like facebook has (when you click on a user's profile and your not friends with him, for example) in AJAX, or even better - does anyone know a framework that would do the AJAX dirty work, with me writing in PHP? Something like $frame = new iframeObject; $frame->s...

What does it mean to say that a framework "scales well"?

When reading about frameworks (.net. ruby on rails, django, spring, etc.), I keep seeing so and so does or doesn't scale well. What does it mean when someone says that a framework "scales well" and what does it mean to say a framework "doesn't scale well"? Thank you. ...

Cocoa MySQL Framework pointers and/or advice?

Hey, I'm looking to find a good MySQL framework for Cocoa that I can use in my XCode projects to access a database on the web. Do you know of any good, open source/free ones? I have looked at http:// mysql-cocoa.sourceforge .net/index.html but haven't had a chance to play with it. Should I start there or is there something better? Tha...

user profile definition issue

Hello everyone, I am developing a web site and I need to build a data structure to store user profile information. Just like what we filled about our gender/age/education/etc. information for Facebook, etc. The current issues I met with are, Currently I may not consider all required user profile information from current design/develo...

Is there anything builtin to Kohana to assist with developing an RSS feed?

I've discovered there is a helper to help parse RSS, but is there one to help create one? I'd imagine there should be... Thanks ...

is struts2 Framework dead? if so, which direction to go from here?

I've been working in struts2 framework for the past year and a half. As I look around SO it seems like struts2 questions get the least amount of hits. At first I thought it was because the SO community is not much into struts2, but this is the case in other forums as well. Only the struts2 mailing list is pretty active. I think str...