platform

How do I compile on linux to share with all distributions?

I compiled a PHP extension on Fedora Core 12, but when I send it to someone using CentOS they get the error: "ELF file OS ABI invalid" I'm not sure what causes this running file provides the following info: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), not stripped An extension that loads fine provides the following ...

how to start platform as a service?

where can i find some resources on how to develop and start platform as a service? i am used to writing SaaS, and wonder how platform as a service differs, advatnages ? i'm not too skilled in sys admin...i might need some virtualization software ? ...

how does windows azure platform scale for my app?

hello all Just a question about Azure. Yes, I know roughly about Azure and cloud computing. I will put it in this way: say, in normal way, I build a program listening to a TCP port. I run this server program in a server. I also build a client program, which connects to the server through specified port. Once a client is connected, my ...

Python: What is the hard recursion limit for Linux, Mac and Windows?

Python's sys module provides a function setrecursionlimit that lets you change Python's maximum recursion limit. The docs say: The highest possible limit is platform-dependent. My question is: What is the highest possible limits for various platforms, under CPython? I would like to know the values for Linux, Mac and Windows. UPDAT...

Blackberry Platform

Hi, Currently i am working on Blackberry JDE 4.3 and i want to know that is there any other platform for Blacberry onwhich we can easily make applications with short time. Such as in Blacberrry JDE, to handle graphics you have to include so many api's and there exists many complexities in the JDE platform. ...

What web platform is right for me?

I've been looking at web frameworks like Rails, Grails, etc. I'm used to doing applications in Spring Framework with Hibernate... and I want something more productive. One of the things I realized is that while some of the things in Grails is sexy, there are some serious problems with it. Grails' controllers: 1) are implemented awfull...

If you had to redo a site that has 150 tables and 250,000 visitors/day in any web platform, what would it be?

If you had to redo a site that has around 150 tables and 250,000+ visitors/day in any web platform, what would your choice be and why? Some points The team has experienced developers The old application is written in unrefactored PHP. It's unusable. Much of the database is not normalized, and there are columns in the wrong spots. Many...

How to evaluate "enterprise" platforms?

Hi all, I'm tasked with evaluating an "enterprise" platform for the next-gen version of a product. We're currently considering two "types" of platforms - RAD (workflow engine, integrated UI, small cores of "technology plugins" to the workflows, automatic persisting of state...) like SalesForce.com / Service-Now.com and "cloud based" (E...

Best language to develop medical software

I need to write medical program to manage medical practices (patient records, appointments, prescription, etc). Note that this is not for US practices so US EMRs will not work. What is the best platform to develop the software in ie. language and database? Considerations include: - Integration with the web - will need to have Doctors ...

Can I do everything in C that C++ and C# and Java can do?

Is it possible to write in C programming language everything that you could write in other languages such as Java, C# or C++. If that's the case why don't schools these days teach C instead of Java? Ok the main reason why I am asking is because I don't want to tie down to a single programming language and platform (.NET and C# or Obj-C ...

embedd video conference plugin on a unix webserver / php built website

Now, I am really unsure how doable this is but we want to provide a platform for users to video-conference on our website - the software thus being installed on the webserver as perhaps a plug-in. We DO NOT want our users have to resort to 3rd party software (such as Skype) them selves. It needs to be a professional feel and us get all t...

Glassfish appication server + application client on ipad

I have written an enterprise application on glassfish v2 application server with java application client. This application client is running on PCs with windows/linux OS. On server side I'm using EJBs. The task is to adopt additionally the client on ipads without/with minimal backend changes. And there are some options for that purpose. ...

surfaceflinger test program

Hi All, I want to write a native application in Android for testing surfaceflinger. Is there any simple program that shows how to create surface, register buffers and post buffers on Surfaceflinger. Many thanks in advance. Kind Regards -Durgesh O Mishra ...

Question about 32-bit / 64-bit systems

Firstly, what is this called? Is this the system's "platform"? If I want to know if a system is 32-bit or 64-bit, do I ask what "platform" it is? Next, is what I wrote below correct: -A 64-bit processor can run a 64-bit operating system or a 32-bit operating system (with a loss of efficiency). -A 32-bit processor can run a 32-bit oper...

Upgrading XML Schema programmatically

Hi all. I'm in the process of having to re-write a project due to the platform vendor needing the storage mechanism be in an XElement object instead of storing in data tables that I create in their database. It's becoming painful, and I need some insight. I can morph my object graph to/from Xml using the XmlSerializer and read/write t...

On which platforms/compilers sizeof(short) is NOT 2?

Tried to look for that and didn't find an answer. Can anyone help? Thanks. ...

Unit testing the android platform

So, I was finally able to build and debug the android platform (the process can be seen here). Now, the question is: where are the unit tests, how do I launch them and where do I see results? And also, is there any guide to android platform architecture? ...

Suggested platform / tool / library for rapid prototyping of graphic design toolset

Looking to prototype a piece of software that works on a three dimensional canvas, with various tools and dialogs that manipulate the model. Looking for a platform with the basic set of user interface tools already available - basic model manipulation (selecting, moving, redimensioning) - dialog boxes, forms, modal windows, etc. On ...

android - platform incompatible and package incompatible error when installing application on phone

i have made an android application for "Project Build Target" as Target name:: "Android 2.2" Vendor :: "Android Open Source Project" Platform :: "2.2" API Level :: "8" I am using Eclipse helios and android sdk r_06. But the phone where i am want to run my application has platform 1.6 how do make this application run on that phon...

How to change rubygems platform from x86-mingw32 to x86-mswin32-60 on windows

Hi I am doing some ruby scripting in windows, which involves opening and closing a browser. To that end I needed some special gems to interface to the native windows system calls. But when I tried > gem install sys-proctable , it yielded ERROR: Could not find a valid gem ´sys-proctable´ (>= 0), here is why: Found sys-proc...