I'm a middle school student and I've taught myself to program. I've learned to think in objects and algorithms, how to use loops and ifs and functions and variables. I've also learned PHP, and to a lesser extent Rails and Django (the kinds of things I think of to build are usually database-driven web applications, and I really enjoy doin...
I've been a PHP developer for many years now, with many tools under my belt; tools that I've either developed myself, or free-to-use solutions that I have learned to trust. I looked into CodeIgniter recently, and discovered that they have many classes and helper routines to aid with development, yet saw nothing in the examples that I co...
I am deploying a web application to a windows server 2003 machine. The application uses WSE 3.0, and targets framework 3.5. WSE is installed on the server under C:\Program Files(X86)\Microsoft WSE\v3.0. WSE is installed in the GAC on the server also. when I run the application I get the following error: System.IO.FileNotFoundException:...
I've been thinking of ways of providing syntactic sugar for a framework I have been working on. I want to deal with Immitable objects exclusively. Say I have an immutable object and wish to create a modified version of it. Would, in your view, a non-instantiable class with a single static factory method break OO principles ? As an...
Hi All, I usually just work with straight PHP, but want to try MVC and see if a framework will really speed up development. After much waffling, analysis paralysis, and many dumb SO questions, I thought I had settled on CodeIgniter for my next PHP project. However, I am now seriously considering Kohana. Has anyone made the switch fro...
I am a c++ developer trying to create a web application using a language or framework that meets the following criteria: Very fast development time Text searching and other text manipulation Easy to configure and maintain the application Tagging system support Free (as in Beer) IDE 3-4 weekend project Can anyone suggest a language or...
Is it possible to have two virtual directories under the same website in IIS but have the virtual directories be using different versions of the .net framework? For example, under the default website, can I have one virtual directory targeting the 2.0 framework and a second virtual directory targeting the 1.1 framework? This is for IIS...
I am making a small game number game in Java (Nim) in OS X and was thinking about trying to make the GUI interface of the game using something other than Swing. I looked at SWT, but I read somewhere that SWT has some problems with OS X. I also looked at GTK+ bindings for Java, but I am not sure if that's a good choice either. Do you guys...
With an abundance of frameworks and stacks for Java Web Services (Axis2, Spring WS, CFX, Metro, ...), which one should be selected for new projects? What are the pros and cons for each one? How well have they worked for you? See related Q here ...
Are there any "Alert" (or Notification) frameworks in Java out there. In my web application I would like our users to be able to configure which (of the available alerts) they would like to receive and in which (e.g via email) form. As a simple example, a user chooses to be alerted only via email when his/her order has been shipped. ...
I'm a C++ developer with basic Python skills. Here's the task, a friend of mine is running a small company and he asked me if I can make a website for him. I have no real deadline so I think it's a perfect opportunity to try sth new and do some web development. User has to be able to add photos, change texts ect. Do you think that Djan...
I have been looking at frameworks for writing 2D games in Java - part of a growing desire to rediscover my roots in writing those simple but addictive video games. I have googled and found some possibilities, but it's hard to judge which is best without investing significant time in each. Does anyone out there have any recommendations ...
Our shop designs and create custom software applications for a vareity of vertical industies. We currently use a modified version of the Csla framework for most of our development. It's a great framework, supports a vareity of ways to communicate with a database, directly, remoting, WCF and so on. It offers a ton of features, many o...
If you are starting to develop a new web application from scratch and the only two requirements you have is that it will be deployed to Windows 2008 Server and that standard ASP.NET incl. VS2008 doesn't cut it (doesn't matter why, let's say it's the license cost, you won't be hosting Windows 2008 Server yourself). Which web framework wou...
Hi, I'm searching for a configuration framework which handles key/values pairs based on conditions. The language and storage type doesn't matter. Example with background color for Application XYZ: Application has the background color "red". On Monday the background color should be green. The background color for User XYZ on Monday sh...
We have 50+ Java batch processes that run at different times of the day. They run on a Solaris box, and are started via cron. Currently, the only way we only know if they succeed or fail is by an email generated at the end of each batch process. We have a support team that monitors these emails. Recently, we've had issues with emails...
hi, I am running a site about PHP Frameworks, but I can't find a exact definition for it, and I am always thinking a question, how to make out a good PHP framework? Features? Manual? Efficiency? Or something? I want to know your point. thanks. wood ...
I'm looking for a good lightweight Java docking framework. I know that Netbeans and Eclipse can be used as RCP, but I'm looking for something a little bit more lightweight. ...
I am embarking on a new RIA project with Java on the backend. I'm the only developer, and the app is a line-of-business application. My current stack looks like this: MySQL || Spring(JdbcTemplate for data access) || BlazeDS (remoting) || Flex(Cairngorm) My question is: what changes can I make to improve productivity? Manually coding SQ...
I would to be a PHP/Mysql Programmer what is the technologies that i must know ? Like :- Frameworks IDEs Template Engines Ajax and Css Frameworks please tell me the minimum requirements that i must know , and tell me your favourite things in the previous list ? thanks ...