I am installing SQL server 2008. I have installed .Net framewok 3.5. Then I got folder SQL Server 2008.Then I performed following steps- In that I clicked configuration Tools. Then I clicked SQL Server Installation Center. I clicked "Installation" hyperlink on left side. Then I clicked "New SQL server stand-alone installation or add ...
I am developing a web app that is about to be opened for public beta. Does anyone know of or has prepared a checklist of the various steps that one needs to take to ensure a smooth beta implementation? The web app is coded using Java, MySQL on the server side and HTML, Javascript on the client side with a little Flash in one or two scre...
Hi, I am building a wordpress site with this theme. It uses templatics in house made ecommerce backend, which works great but has no plugin for iDeal. There are a few plugins provided by third parties for iDeal, but those plugins all need the wordpress eCommerce/getshopped plugin. So I am on my own. I have basic some knowledge about ph...
I have the code for a web application that's supposed to be set up in Tomcat, on my company's server. I work on this server by SSHing into it. So I am in NetBeans 6.8 on Ubuntu 10.04, setting up a Java Web->New Web Project with Existing Sources. I can copy the code from the server onto my desktop when it asks for the location of the s...
Is there any semantic difference between ToXXXX conversion methods and AsXXXX conversion methods in the .NET framework? Examples of such methods are Object.ToString and Enumerable.AsEnumerable<T>. If no: Are there still recommendations when to name a conversion method AsXXXX and when to name it ToXXXX? If yes: Is there a .NET framewor...
Hi In my app I have 2 tables that have a many to many relationship. Let us say these are table students and table courses. Each course can have many students and each student can also enroll in many courses. Now I want to create a associative table which according to cakephp should be named courses_students. However for various reason...
I work on an application which now has a rather large JavaScript code base. It's got code we have written and files for the various libraries (jQuery) and plug-in being used. This has grown to be an awful mess. Repeated methods, no clear structure and so on. Are there any good guidelines on using JavaScript within large applications? ...
When is it acceptable to make clicking a hyperlink open a new browser window? Does there need to be an indication on the link or image that makes this occur? What are the guidelines - and why? ...
Hi there, I have a general interest in the following question and would like to hear your opinion. Setting: Imagine an API that provides a Callback-Interface Cb, that is you can create a Cb object and register it on the API. The API will call methods of your object in some other thread. This could be the case where you want to receive...
Hi all, As a web developer, I would like to know: What are the most common used html tags and when should I use (the context)? Do's and Don'ts of those tags What are the html tags which should not be used? Thanks. update: Yes, I understand that the best thing is to read the specification. But I think it will be great if there is s...
I am tasked with creating a document for current and (most importantly) new developers that is a general guidelines for the department. This is not a document on what the server name is for Test, but probably more of a company philosophy document. Some of the items I currently have: Coding Standards (naming, the basics) Tiers - how t...
coding guidelines? design guidelines? best practices? Can you point to your documents? How far do you go to enforce these guidelines? ...
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Looking on some interesting links, I found Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Under Abstract headline the articles states: Following these guidelines will also help people find information on the Web more quickly According to this statement,and furthermore according the whole article: Does it worth to spend the time is ne...
A client of mine asked for a basic version of an iPhone application to work with, and has been happily using it for 2 months now. Now he wants me to implement the full version but I'm having trouble finding a good interface to make it both visually attractive and practical in use: I should use a completely different tab-bar at the botto...
My team is starting a new project in silverlight. We are all experienced developers. It should be out of browser application with usage of public api's. We read about MVVM pattern... Are there some other guidelines/best practices for silverlight? ADDED: What we would like to know is: Is there some other patterns/guidelines for SL oth...
Hi all, I'm on a small team of about 6 people. Most of the group is careful to make sure their commits don't break trunk and use short-lived feature branches when they need to work on something for more than a couple of days, so they can check in code without destabilizing things for everyone else. And then there's the other guy. He ...
Hello, 2.7 Apps that download code in any way or form will be rejected 2.17 Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript My app has a some UiWebViews downloading PHP pages, with Mootools javascript. Does this breach the above? Seems stupid if it does. Thanks, ...
So I have a few private git repositories that are different language implementations (Python, Java, etc.) of an algorithm. Each implementation is functionally identical, performing the same steps and giving the same output. Currently, these are separate repos, but I was wondering if I shouldn't unify them into one repo, with directorie...
Hello everyone, What are the guidelines i should follow to avoid encoding issues when reading files or converting string to bytes, bytes to streams streams to reader etc. Any important notes, tutorials would also help. Best Regards, Keshav ...