Completely unexpectedly, I (a webdeveloper, with a decent knowledge in OO), am tasked to re-design our old flagship Windows-application and drag it screaming and kicking into the next century. Here's what we have now: 15 year old code, originally written in Delphi, about 8 years ago ported to Visual Basic (Kept in Visual Studio 2008)....
I need to create a service that: accepts HTTP requests (with query string or HTTP POST parameters) does some processing on the requests (checking if the request is valid, authentication etc.) reads data from a custom store (another HTTP call in our case) returns the result as custom XML (defined with XSD) I'm trying to think of vario...
When you speak to your colleagues or you want to convince your client to use Coldfusion for some new project and not some other technology or language they heard of before, which arguments do you use? I'm asking because I'd like to make presentation to put in my company's portfolio and seems that I can't find any real life, non developm...
I have to write a web application for a client soon. Looking at the specs, there is no reason why the project couldn't be an HTML5/CSS/Javascript project, but the client is arguing that it has to be Flash. The project has a number of dynamic elements and is web-based. It'll only be used in-house by a small number of people and all of th...
Aside from "I've already implemented it in C++", and "You must develop it in C++ for it to run on X", what are some good reasons for developing a basic business application in pure C++? ...
Hello! I want to know what's the best technology to develop desktop applications considering this: It's to run only in Windows. I do not need to connect to a DB or to the web The final application has to be run from a .bat file I'd like to avoid installing additional frameworks like .NET, I'd like the application to run on a basic win...
We are planning to do a large application, and we are tented to do it in php and mysql, because of it cost, but this application might grow a lot, and the database engine could have thousands of connections per second, so I am not sure what technology could handle this volume better. I would like to know what technology I should use, and...
Hi, I have had to work professionally on a few technologies/languages till today: C++, C#, directX, opengl and now ASP.net. I realize that I am MASTER of none but average-good at all of them. My question is that for a successful professional career, is it favorable to experience many different technologies or try and stick to one ? Wha...
We are working on a large C# 3.5 project that requires a centralized database. The database itself is small both in number of tables and in the size of those tables. Typically, the user will pull information from the database and work on a local copy. My assumption is that the local copy will be in XML but this is not a requirement. In s...
I'm often thinking of start writing an application in my spare time. The one thing that holds me back is the fear of having to abandon the project after 5 years because maintenance becomes unfeasible due to an ever changing "programming environment". By this I mean the combination of the programming language, a good IDE, some extensive f...
I need to create a website - Content based for a Training institute It contains informations of the National Exams, Forms, FAQs, Question Banks etc The training these institutes give for the above exams. Login for staff and students where they can create/share documents like - word/excel/power point. I know PHP, Cakephp and Wordpres...