What I mean by that is saying "I'm going to use the Microsoft stack" and then sticking to IIS/MSSQL/ASP.NET/Silverlight. Now, it might not be the Microsoft technology stack. It could be a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP/JavaScript/Flash/Flex or Linux/Tomcat/PostgreSQL/Java/JavaScript. How important is it to make the choice on what to use for ser...
I'm about to start building a new web project based on the .NET technology stack. What I want is to somehow avoid the "default" way of building ASP.NET web apps using webforms and stuff. So, the question is simple: If you're about to start a new web project using .NET today, what technologies and frameworks would you use? I know that I...
LAMP is a well-known acronym for the software/technology bundle/stack representing Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. There are a few passing references on the Web that use the acronym WISC to speak of the other (supposedly Microsoft-centric) software/technology bundle/stack in contrast to LAMP. There is, however, no Wikipedia entry on WISC at t...
Normally this would be an easy decision (the answer being "of course"). However, my job does not have its own copy of Visual Studio, and anything I develop will be done on my personal laptop that has an MSDN subscription (this is already cleared with the company). The company is too cheap to pay for Visual Studio, however I have an unu...
I'm not sure if you have heard about this cool 3d wall application called CoolIris? It features some very smooth rendering and is quite slick. Does anyone know what this was written in? Java? ...
I observe a phenomenon that looks like religion to me, only in a development team. Here is an example situation: We are three people working on a small project. The project will involve a public web service that will serve requests by fetching data from a database, and also a separate component (or application) that would fill and updat...
Duplicate: Is there a generic way to see what is a website running on ? Thanks for all the answer everyone, please supply additional answers at the above question if you feel something is missing. Browsing the web I often come across sites that are doing interesting or cool things. It a natural inclination of mine, and I'm sure ...
Website development is expanding in complexity, popularity and in the amount of tools available to use for development. Magazines, forums and such are now and then asking this same question, but not often with the possibility or means for collecting trustworthy answers. I figure this community might be able to at least reveal tendencies...
Would you start J2EE project nowadays if you have other alternatives? UPDATE: I think little clarification is needed: Is it worth investing in J2EE if practically everything it claims to offer can be achieved by using other technologies? To be honest, J2EE scares me by its monstrosity and I foresee substantial maintenance and/or evolutio...
As a result of a conversation with a colleague today, I've been searching (unsuccessfully) for a large'ish list of what technology stacks are being used popular websites and standalone applications today. We're aware of the big ones like Facebook (php/ ), Twitter (scala/cassandra), Youtube (python/?), Digg (php/cassandra), stackoverflow ...
When given a new task/challenge/application to build, do you always use the same framework, for example spring / struts? Or do you try something new that you haven't used before, such as GWT? What makes you return to the same technology stack? Is it good to be advanced at particular technologies, or to have a broad understanding? ...
In this case security means building security (access control, alarm systems, etc). And I am not talking about working directly with the hardware, more focused on web based applications/api's that clients or companies can use? Are there technologies that are commonly used? Are there technologies that shouldn't be used? Are there any re...
Is it all javascript client side and server side? I know they use a lot of YUI but is that what powers their front end? What about the back-end? ...
What is your technology stack for developing C++ applications? I'm trying to decide on one. So far this is what I have in my list: Boost Boost::Unit Testing googlemock log4cpp doxygen ant hg ...