architecture

Obj-C component-based game architecture and message forwarding

Hello, I've been trying to implement a simple component-based game object architecture using Objective-C, much along the lines of the article 'Evolve Your Hierarchy' by Mick West. To this end, I've successfully used a some ideas as outlined in the article 'Objective-C Message Forwarding' by Mike Ash, that is to say using the -(id)forwar...

.NET Training courses help (Architecture / TDD)

Hi All, I am looking for one of 2 things, Test Driven Development, or Architecture Trainings on the West Coast. If anyone knows a company that do those, I would really apreciate it. Thanks ...

Book on rendering e-book/document formats

I'm looking for guidelines/best practices for building software architecture of a document rendering software. For example, something on how to create a modular software to be able to parse/render various document formats. Can you recommend any books/web sources? ...

Getting up to speed on modern architecture

Hi, I don't have any formal qualifications in computer science, rather I taught myself classic ASP back in the days of the dotcom boom and managed to get myself a job and my career developed from there. I was a confident and, I think, pretty good programmer in ASP 3 but as others have observed one of the problems with classic ASP was th...

How can i use complextype class or multi type class is it generic collection?

i need a complex returning type. i have 4 class returning types COMPLEXTYPE must include Company, Muayene, Radyoloji, Satis because i must return data switch case situation how can i do? Maybe i need generic collections How can i do that? public class GenoTipController { public COMPLEXTYPE Generate(DataModelType modeltyp...

How to scale php application servers horizontally?

Hello, I'm using lighttpd as webserver for php application server. The avg. load on this server is about 2-3. MySQL database is separated to another server (it's load ~0.4). How could I scale php application server? Thank you. ...

get Generic CRUD operation in EF

Hello, Is there any way or design pattern can I use to get Generic CRUD operations? Because I’m working on n-tire application using EF in the data layer and I don’t want to use CRUD Functions in Every Entities. Your help would be appreciated ...

Should a web service enable the user to Create and Update, or just Save?

When designing a web service that will allow the consumer of the service to save and get a complex data type (say Foo), should the service expose Create(Foo) and Update(Foo) service calls, or should the service expose merely a Save(Foo) service call? If Save(Foo) is better, should the user be able to predict whether the system will crea...

In Ruby, is there a better way of selecting a constant (or avoiding the constant altogether) based on an incoming string of the same name?

Not sure the title fully describes the problem/question I'm trying to ask, sorry. One of my fellow developers has created classes as such: class Widget attr_accessor :model_type ... end and: class ModelType MODEL1 = "model1" MODEL2 = "model2" MODEL3 = "model3" end Now he wants me to convert a retrieved string "MODEL1" t...

Examples of architecturally well-designed ASP.NET WebForms sites

What's an example of a reasonably modern, well-designed, fairly complex ASP.NET webforms site, with source code available? Particularly that use MVP or MVC patterns. Note: I'm not looking for sites that use the ASP.NET MVC framework. I'm looking for sites built with traditional webforms, even if they happen to use the MVC pattern ...

MyController class must produce class according to the enum type.

GenoTipController must produce class according to the enum type. i have 3 class: _Company,_Muayene,_Radyoloji. Also i have CompanyView Class GetPersonel method. if you look GenoTipController my codes need refactoring. Can you understand me? i need a class according to ewnum type must me produce class. For example; case DataModelType.Rady...

Is it good practise to blank out inherited functionality that will not be used?

I'm wondering if I should change the software architecture of one of my projects. I'm developing software for a project where two sides (in fact a host and a device) use shared code. That helps because shared data, e.g. enums can be stored in one central place. I'm working with what we call a "channel" to transfer data between device a...

Good resources to learn about Event Driven Architecture

Looking for books, blogs, web sites or videos. At the moment I am getting a lot of value from the blogs of Udi Dahan and Greg Young, but I was wondering if there are any other experts out there worth listening to? ...

Architecture of a secure application that encrypts data in the database.

I need to design an application that protects some data in a database against root attack. It means, that even if the aggressor takes control over the machine where data is stored or machine with the application server, he can't read some business critical data from the database. This is a customer's requirement. I'm going to encrypt dat...

Zend Framework Application: module dependencies

How do you handle dependencies between modules in Zend Framework to create reusable, drop-in modules? E.g. I have Newsletter module, which allows users to subscribe, providing e-mail address. Next, I plan to add Blog module, which allows to subscribe to posts by e-mail (it obviously duplicates some functionality of the newsletter, but ...

I like the way they Design/Architecture it but how do I implement this

Summary: I have different components on homepage and each components shows some promotion to the user. I have Cart as one Component and depending upon content of the cart promotion are show. I have to track user online activities and send that information to Omniture for Report Generation. Now my components are loaded asynchronously...

Ideal way/architecture to deliver large data over Web Services

We are trying to design 6 web services, which will serve another client component. The client component requires data from the web service we are implementing. Now, the problem is, there is not 1 Web Service we are implementing, there is one Web Service which the client component hits, this initiates a series (5 more) of Web Services wh...

Simply doing modelType.ToString() isn't sufficient, How can i use it via Activator.CreateInstance?

public class MyController { public object CreateByEnum(DataModelType modeltype) { string enumText = modeltype.ToString(); // will return for example "Company" Type classType = Type.GetType(enumText); // the Type for Company class object t = Activator.CreateInstance(classType); // ...

How can i return abstract class from any factory?

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; namespace EfTestFactory { public abstract class _Company { public abstract List<Personel> GetPersonel(); public abstract List<Prim> GetPrim(); public abstract List<Finans> GetFinans(); } public abstract class _...

Which architectural certifications are available to a person having 12+ years of experience in programming + Architecture.

I know Microsoft Certified Architect (too costly) and Sun Certified Enterprise Architect. But I have Microsoft Technology background. So am looking for something except these two. ...