frameworks

PHP Frameworks: Do any of them compare to Visual Studio?

Are there any coders out there that have real experience/exposure to both PHP and ASP.net? I'm a C# developer, wondering if any PHP frameworks compare to the robustness of the Visual Studio Development environment. ...

Codeigniter Twitter Library : What is my Callback URL. Where can i find it?

I would like to know where i can find my callback url in ci? Im quite new to it so not really sure. Here is the lib im using. <?php class Home extends Controller { function Home() { parent::Controller(); } public function index() { // This is how we do a basic auth: // $this->twitter-...

Can anyone suggest a Java or Scala DOS/terminal-based UI framework?

I'm looking for some framework to build an interface like Turbo C. ...

Which web solution should I use for my project?

I'm going to create a fairly large (from my point of view anyway) web project with a friend. We will create a site with roads and other road related info. Our calculations is that we will have around 100k items in our database. Each item will contain some information like location, name etc. (about 30 thing each). We are counting on hav...

Book/topic recommendations for a programmer returning to programming.

I used to be a developer in Java, PHP, perl and C/C++ (the C++ bit badly - the others not too badly, I hope). This was back in the Java 1.3/1.4 days. We used raw JDBC, swing, servlets, JSP and ant (sometimes even make). Eclipse was new. Then I joined a deployment team and became a deployment engineer and then after the deployment engin...

Is there any difference between Spring and Spring.net?

Hello, I've been using Spring with Java and I've seen that there is a version called Spring.NET. I wonder if there is any significant difference between them (apart from that one is for Java and the other is for .NET). Is it just a "language translation" of the framework or are they different project with just a similar purpose? Thanks...

Entity Framework - Using a lookup (picklist) table with a lookup key

I'm working on a WPF application that is working well using the Entity Framework (3.5 SP1) for complicated table structures. The problem now is I want to get a list from the EF that includes lookups into a picklist table that has multiple picklists in it. In SQL I would write a sub select as such: SELECT Name, (Select typeName from P...

Creating base class for Entities in Entity Framework

I would like to create a base class that is somewhat generic for all of my entities. The class would have methods like Save(), Delete(), GetByID() and some other basic functionality and properties. I have more experience with Linq to SQL and was hoping to get some good examples for something similar in the EF. Thank you. ...

What is a framework in PHP?

How does one determine if a certain PHP project has evolved to the point that it's a framework? ...

Issues in Ajax based applications

I'm very interested in developing Ajax based applications. This is, loading almost all of the content of the application via XMLHttpRequest, instead of only some combos and widgets. But if I try to do this form scratch, soon I find some problems without an easy solution. I wonder if there is some framework (both client and server side) t...

Reporting framework for extending definition & execution to the end users (ASP.Net)

Hello. My application is a product which will have reporting capabilities. The product, when in production, is expected to have several ad-hoc report defined by the end users. I am looking for a platform that can be tailored to harness the business entities and extend reporting capabilities (definition & execution) to the end user. Her...

How to use Rx to asynchronously query Twitter search ?

Hi, I'm thinking about using Rx (Reactive Framework) in order to asynchronously query Twitter search API on a given keyword. The sample app I'd like to build should be able to display new tweets in the console. Do you think it is possible to do that ? Would it be simpler than using standard programming techniques ? How would you do th...

LoginViewModel in Wpf Application Framework

Hello , You wrote: "I would use an ApplicationController which instantiates the LoginViewModel and shows the LoginView. When the user proceeds with the login screen the ApplicationController closes the LoginView and shows the MainView with its MainViewModel. How this can be done is shown in the sample applications of the WPF Applicati...

Constantly changing frameworks/APIs - how do we keep up?

This question isn't really for any specific technology but more of general developer question. We all know from experience that things change. Frameworks evolve, new features are added and stuff gets removed. For example, how might a product using version 1.0 of the "ABC" framework adapt when version 2.0 comes along (ABC could be .NET...

MVVM: ado.net entity framework and model

Hi, I'm writing an application in wpf that uses MVVM. I wondered if I could use ado.net entity data model as a model in MVVM? Is it the same? If not, why? Thanks for any help. Regards, Ev. ...

CSS framework for printing A4 format

Hello, I'm trying to layout printable magazines on a web application, using XHTML and CSS. It's not easy ! I would like to know if a CSS framework could help me handling page format, positioning and physical units like millimeters. Some details I forgot. The magazines are not printed directly by the user with a print.css. The applicatio...

component based vs full stack framework?

i dont understand what these 2 words mean. i think symfony is a full-stack framework while yii is a component-based framework. is this correct? if so, what are the main differences? thanks ...

Which Code Should Go Where in MVC Structure

My problem is in somewhere between model and controller.Everything works perfect for me when I use MVC just for crud (create, read, update, delete).I have separate models for each database table .I access these models from controller , to crud them . For example , in contacts application,I have actions (create, read, update, delete) in c...

design-pattern libraries ready-to-use?

symfony has released some of their components free to use outside the framework. i have used the event dispatcher and dependency injection...they are awesome! i wonder if there are other components/libraries (from other frameworks etc) that in the same way help you manage various design patterns? eg. decorator, facade, singleton, chai...

is PHP itself transforming into a framework or big library?

At the beginning PHP was a scripting language. But after the introduction and improvement of OOP I see more and more objects added to the core. They started with libraries like DOM (the PHP 4 and 5 varieties), later SPL which grew a lot, and the DateTime family which should be part of PECL, Pear or Zend Framework or implemented by each o...