I am currently trying to wrap my head around working with JPA. I can't help but feel like I am missing something or doing it the wrong way. It just seems forced so far. What I think I know so far is that their are couple of ways to work with JPA and tools to support this. You can do everything in Java using annotations, and let JPA (wh...
In visual studio 2008 (SP1 applied) there appears to be a bug in the state workflow designer tool. On adding a HandleExternalEvent activity and setting the Interface type to that of an interface in a reference assembly with the same prefixed namespace (eg XX.Core.Contracts as the namespace of the interface containing assembly and XX.St...
Hi all, I'm interested in getting preview functionality working similar to how the 37signals job site does: http://jobs.37signals.com. Below are some screen shots of how it works. Step 1. Create your ad http://cl.ly/dfc4761b015c7f43c8ab (URL /jobs/new) Step 2. Preview your ad http://cl.ly/9c4b4041cfea83d8569e (URL /jobs/new/preview) S...
Today, I had a training on "Microsoft Workflow Foundation". While I think the idea is neat, I still see it as a Proof Of Concept and not as a real-life solution. Building an entire application without having to type a single line of code (or only a few of them) seems just wrong. Have you ever used this technology and if so, can it real...
Hi, So I have my local MAMP setup and running a test environment for my projects. When I upload it to the live server for staging I want to keep the passwords and usernames in for example config.php separate from those that are used on the server. This way I won't need to change those each time I push a commit to the server. I have been...
I'm trying to write a behavior that will give my models access to a simple workflow engine I've devised. The workflow engine itself works as a CakePHP model, with workflow data stored in the database just as any other model data is stored. Basically what I want to do is have the behavior use the workflow model whenever an action is call...
I'm researching various workflow architectures and it is overwhelming. The workflow system I am creating will be almost completely human-driven. Very little, if any, asynchronous activity will be taking place. One possibility is to simply use a RDBMS and have a task table, from which stored procedures would be used to enforce synchron...
As a freelancer, and previous Adobe trainer, I get a look-in at many development workflows and alternate styles of programming and design and therefore quite open to different workflows. But a recent post I had, I needed to use SQL - so I whipped out navicat and wrote a nice join statement. I had sniggering comments and sideways glance...
Hi, I'm a starting sharepoint developer asked to implement the following scenario in sharepoint 2010. We're a bit lost on the best approach to get started.. I'm really struggling to find the best practise solution. This is the requested flow: A user can make a request with a title and a description. A mail gets sent to the represen...
This is somewhat a subjective question. Noticed themes like thematic and carrington use hooks to display their themes. Trying to figure out which works best for a more efficient workflow. Which seems more efficient at theming? Trying to weigh in the cons and pros of hooks vs. just including static files. ...
I have a bunch of XML files with a fixed, country-based naming schema: report_en.xml, report_de.xml, report_fr.xml, etc. Now I want to write an XSLT style sheet that reads each of these files via the document() XPath function, extracts some values and generates one XML files with a summary. My question is: How can I iterate over the sour...
We are using Git and our workflow consists of a 'dev' and 'master' branch which lives on GitHub and each developer's local repository. No work is performed directly on 'master' or 'dev', but rather in local branches and only merges happen on 'dev' and later with 'master'. We do not push local branches to GitHub. For some reason develope...
I want to be able to interrupt a running workflow instance, say when a new activity is about to be invoked, and extract information both about the structure of the workflow and the data in the particular instance. Then I will consult with an external system and according to its response I will possibly alter the behaviour of the workflow...
So I've got my private SVN repo on my home server, and it has maybe 30 different modules thrown together in it, ranging from abortive throw-away larks to a few endeavors that might actually go somewhere someday. But a recent filesystem failure (BTW, never ever EVER use XFS without a battery-backed hardware RAID) has me spooked and thinki...
Hi All, I have requirement where when a user enter new item in a list first approver approves it then publisher approves it. Once publisher approves it the text will be visible to all. I have used SharePoint built in Approval for that where I have set my workflow to start when new item created and item is changed. when I Add new item...
Hi, I work in team which uses Work flow management tool. I was presented with a challenge where the user should be able to roll back the changes made anytime during the flow to a certain point in the past. Surely the toll can handle it but the additional database calls that may have made during these activities have to be manually rol...
I am trying to create a workflow to send an e-mail whenever a new version of a file is uploaded to a Document Library. The Document Library has lots of fields that, if updated, will create a new version of the ListItem, but I don't want to start the workflow for this cases. Only when a new version of the document is uploaded (including...
hello, We have to do a project which is a web based workflow application. I have never used WWF. I am thinking should we use WWF with asp.net ? This application has 10 tasks with multiple options (each task may have 4 options) with a good amount of data. Just like banks have customer dealing work flow applications. I am not getting wi...
Has anyone had experience canceling a workflow via webservices? Is it possible? ...
I am a single man shop developing a handful of desktop applications and websites. I started using GIT for version control a few months ago, and I am reasonably happy with it, but my usage is pretty clumsy and I am wondering what the workflow should be for a single user. Right now, I have a .git folder in each of my project folders. I co...