What are some of the building blocks foundational to enterprise business applications? I'm thinking about re-usable components multiple applications share to: Scale up faster Speed development by eliminating re-building Provide a stable infrastructures by minimizing key points of failure Some examples of concepts I've seen success w...
I've got a SharePoint MOSS 2007 development setup on to which I installed the WSS infrastructure update. Now, whenever I try to access any site collection in my SharePoint farm using IE7 I get a username and password prompt. I enter valid credentials for my Site Collection admin account and I see the box again. This happens three time...
How do VoIP services, such as Skype and Yahoo, connect to landlines? We have a server connected to a landline using asterisk, so I'm thinking this server will bridge our VoIP conversation and connect it to a landline. But if this is the case, wouldn't Skype need a lot of servers placed around the whole world just to connect to landlin...
Hi My team is developing a large music portal in PHP. It is hoped that the portal will have 1 million+ users within a year of its launch. The portal will allow users to create playlists, stream and download music. Till now, we have developed applications that have been used by a maximum of about a 1000 simultaneous users. This portal ...
Here is our current infrastructure: 2 web servers behind a shared load balancer dns is pointing to the load balancer web app is done in asp.net, with wcf services My question is how to set up the SSL certificate to support https connection. Here are 2 ideas that I have: SSL certificate terminates at the load balancer. secure/unsec...
I want to plan a schedule maintenance down time on one of my production asp.net website hosted on IIS windows server 2003. I think this is the preferred behavior: All request to http://www.x.com including www.x.com/asb/asd/ will be redirected to a notification page (site is currently down. come back later) The maintenance will take ar...
"We need to show quotes related with the current document." This user story will cause many of our subsystems to get modified, and it is more or less 4-5 sprint length. Splitting it into sub stories is impossible cause the modifications has no business value. But, in the 5th sprint, there will a business value. What do you suggest? How...
I'm looking for something to describe existing infrastructure of working applications. What I need: The ability to create new entities, add/edit properties of entity. Example of entity is Windows server with properties such as IP address, server name etc. Another example is application with properties: name, location etc. Create dep...
I've possible got to implement SAML for a couple of sites we have and I was wondering if this kind of requirement can be implemented in infrastructure technologies like Active Directory or do I have to implement the solution in application code? Cheers Ollie ...
I have a WPF application and I added to the project resources many icons and bitmaps. Now I can access them like this: Dim ico As System.Drawing.Icon = My.Resources.Icon 'Icon.ico Dim img As System.Drawing.Bitmap = My.Resources.Image 'Image.png In order to use it in wpf I created too simple Extension Methods that convert them to Imag...
What is the difference between between signing certificate and encryption certificate? I see that signing certificate cannot be used for encrypting the data only encryption certificate. What is the technical difference? Does both have public key and private or only encryption cert will have PP key? ...
I would probably say this is more of a general posting asking for advice rather than a direct solution request. I am currently in the process of laying down the design and infrastructure for a startup with a colleague of mine, nevertheless, my experience lays in the realm of Java Swing development and JavaScript/Ajax worlds as well as s...
how to declare int1024 in C#? i can use VB or C++ Too. Regards Behrooz ...
During QA process we usually need to describe a sequence of actions, that causes some bugs. Usually the best way to do it is describe a situation by text messages. Sometimes screen-shots are helps. But i believe that video or slide-show should to help QA team and should to reduce time loss on QA-team - developers iterations. Some time ...
There is one controversy I see in using Web APIs (RESTful service) to access remote infrastracture. I would be grateful, if you could comment it. The recommendation coming from the article "RESTful Web Services vs. "Big" Web Services: Making the Right Architectural Decision" [1] is to use Web APIs rather for ad hoc integration (a la' mas...
I have recently found myself in the position of explaining an (In-House) application I have written to two candidates my company likes to hire in order to assist in maintenance and adding minor features. It is the first "production" application I have written, it has 45k LOCs and I spent almost two years of "solo" development on it. I a...
Hope my question does not pose as too wide. So I try to frame my question not to get too similar answers to the question of this question. Currently I have deploy my rails application on Linode. The service works fine, the price is reasonable. But there are those administering works time to time. I could live without those. Recently I s...
In a blog application developed using domain driven design a 'Post' entity has a related collection of tag entities. On creating the post (e.g populating the object from the UI) i would like to call a third party API via REST which takes the content of the post and extracts semantic tags (link text) for association. Main Question : Wh...
I am in a startup company working on a new digital content creation desktop tool. We are now setting up an infrastructure for a small team of software developers in multiple locations. We are looking into setting up a common server wich will store all code, and host version control (Subversion), built system, internal documentation, Bu...
I'd like to offer a news-feed like feature for users of our website. When the user logs in, he is shown a list of the latest updates across various areas of the site. I'm afraid that this is going to be difficult to scale. What are some networking / database topologies that can support a scalable infrastructure without having lots o...