frameworks

What's the best way to write a portable Javascript library?

All of my projects include very similar tasks and quite recently I've been thinking I should write a library to handle most of the heavy lifting so I can write short, simple, easy to read code that interacts with the library to get the jobs done. Looking at other frameworks, specifically jQuery & YUI, they work in different ways. jQuer...

Keeping headers as `project` in Xcode framework

I'm making an Xcode framework, and I have one public header which accesses a bunch of project headers. But when I import the framework in another project, it throws errors that it can't find the header files that are project. I have referenced objects from the project headers in the public header. How do I keep those headers project but ...

Cross-platform mobile framework that can access call logs

I've come across a few suggestions of "develop-once, deploy anywhere" mobile frameworks from other SO questions: http://www.mosync.com http://rhomobile.com http://phonegap.com I was wondering if there are other alternatives to these mobile frameworks. None of them have the ability to access call logs or hook into a phone's call events ...

Free CSS UI Templates

Hi, Could someone show me some css ui framework/template for consistent web application, something like: http://www.webguitemplates.com/templates/futurism/futurism-blue http://www.webguitemplates.com/templates/simplus/simplus-silver http://www.adminizio.com/ http://gooeytemplates.myshopify.com/products/blue-atom http://gooeytemplates....

How to replace framework's AP of Android

Dear all: I would like to write a standalone screen locked AP of Android to replace the default one(android\frameworks\policies\base\phone\com\android\internal\policy\impl\LockScreen.java ) Does anyone know how to replace the default AP of framework? Is it possible to replace framework AP without modify any framework code? Thanks f...

How should I call a layer of auto-generated code?

I have a framework which works this way: After defining some meta data, it generates PHP code with PHP classes. These classes are abstract and are intended to be subclassed. For example, if I define a User class in the backend, it will generate an UserBase class which I simply subclass like: class User extends UserBase { //.... } ...

What's the Future of Lift framework and current work being done?

I keep reading the developments being done on frameworks like Grails and other Java frameworks but not much of a buzz in the Lift camp. And also Lift 1.0 was announced long back. Is the community working on Lift framework? What are the future prospects of the framework? Is it better than Grails and other Java frameworks? (Groovy being le...

Hibernate Vs iBATIS

For our new product re-engineering, we are in the process of selecting the best framework from Java. As the consideration is to go for database agnostic approach for model, we are working on options between Struts + Spring with iBATIS or Hibernate. Please advice which is best as both offer persistence. ...

Full stack framework for Java

Hello everyone, I'm looking for a full stack framework (from persistency to view generation (CRUD)) for Java. I don't have experience with Rails style frameworks, like Grails, but I worked a lot with Hibernate, Struts, Spring ... I prefer a framework that let you naturally modify the business domain design with the less effort ( i.e. w...

CSS Framework for UI Development

I'm making an app in Adobe Air and I want to make a robust looking UI. And it's quite hard to do in CSS, I just end up with lots of messy code that probably doesn't work that well anyway. So does anyone know of a good UI CSS framework that focuses on a robust layout rather than pointless slidy crap and datepickers. ...

What is the best today php framework to build my own CMS?

My scope of knowledge on php Frameworks is limited to 4, CakePHP, Symphony, Zend and CodeIgniter (sort by preference) I want to know which one I could choose to build my personal CMS (which suits best for that purpose) .. Best, ...

How do the different frameworks and cmses handle the dev > staging > production deployment problem?

It's a familiar problem: I've got some changes to push up the dev > staging > production chain, but in the mean time, content and users have been added to the database on the production server. I work with drupal a lot, and it's lousy at this because so much of the configuration winds up in the db. (There are some solutions that try to ...

Complete C++ "from scratch" frameworks

What C++ frameworks provide a complete skeleton, in the fashion of Ruby on Rails? I think Poco C++ does it, are there other options? ...

How do I handle web widget frameworks when advocating Perl?

Recently, I've chatted with a fellow Perl Monger about my and his job. He has a lot of Perl background, but works in a team that creates and maintains many low-scale projects for the customers, mostly based on .NET and Java. His opinion is currently that Perl has mostly lost the web game, since it's still lacking widget toolkits, which a...

Code generation tool/framework for PHP

As far as I know, many PHP frameworks use syntactic sugar to provide illusion of real functions. Some provide scaffolding/skeleton generation, which is limited. Syntactic sugar is slow and IDE/editors do not provide intellisense for Syntactic sugar functions/methods and member data. I'm wondering if there any tool/framework to generate P...

Strategy for external javascript framework debugging

Working with Extjs, GeoExt and OpenLayers, I more and more tend to run into problems which do not result in direct javascript errors (in either IE, FF or similar). It could be features not working, unexpected behaviour and so on. My usual strategy is to strip down code to a minimum hoping to discover where the problem arises - Firebug a...

Contract-last web services?

Using CXF to create contract-last web services seems like an efficient and effective way to rapidly create either SOAP or REST based web services. However, I'm unclear/unsure of the following and I'd appreciate insight/feedback: Are there any significant pitfalls of contract-last that I should be aware of? Are there any significant iss...

To find the process running in task manager and to kill the process

I have a windows mobile application I have noticed that it properly terminate on exiting, they simply minimize and take up memory. I need to cehck whether any instance of the same application is running in the taskmanager.If exists, i need to kill the process. I need to write small app that would loop through all open application proces...

Best GUI Framework for Ruby. Not Shoes.

Hello everyone. I am trying to settle on a GUI framework for Ruby and I have yet to decide which one I prefer and would like some input. I mainly want to pick the framework with the most support and community involvement. I have shied away from Shoes because the site is down and because I would like some challenge and understanding of w...

Symfony is-a database schema

Hey, So I am new to symfony and am trying to make a is-a relationship between several tables. I have a media table that has a id field that is the primary key. I then except to have 2 or more additional tables that are "subclasses" of this table such as an article or event table. These are subclasses of the media table and I put a media...