We have a requirement to develop an application that pulls the data from SAP BW system and display it on a Flex chart. The Flex guy wants the data in the XML format. Am the middleWare guy who sits in between the SAP BW and the flex. I need to pull the data from SAP BW system and feed the flex components in XML. Question: How do I need ...
I have for some time tried to anthropomorphise (meaning human readable) the names I give to interfaces, to me this is the same as give an interface a role based name – trying to capture the purpose of the interface in the name. I was having a discussion with other developers who think this is a little strange and childish. What do the ...
Did you ever have the following situation: you need to store information, but a part of this information is well modeled with one type of database (in a very loose sense), and another part is well modeled with another type. Examples: a set of files and additional information about each of them stored in a relational SQL database. an OO...
I am pondering about partial specialization. While I understand the idea, I haven't seen any real-world usage of this technique. Full specialization is used in many places in STL so I don't have a problem with that. Could you educate me about a real-world example where partial specialization is used? If the example is in STL that would b...
Hi I am in a situation where i need to use multiple inheritance in C# with WPF. I am making a control lets say Control-1 that is derived from combobox control. I added some dependency properties as well as methods to the my control Control-1 class. Most of the properties and methods(infact the same implementation of properties and met...
I'm searching a good book about design but I'm not a designer. I've found "The Complete Graphic Designer" and it seemed to me that it was good enough. But unfortunatelly I cant find any reviews to be sure. So, some questions about it: Is it understandable enough for programmer (i.e. I know only a few design terms)? Does it contain s...
Hi, I want to know if it is possible, with pure html and css (no javascript, htc files, ...), to create a menu that has a sort of dropdown effect for subitems. It doesn't have to slide or anything (I know thats impossible), just show on hover. Edit: It has to work in IE. Thanks! ...
I have an text outline tree where i display a lot of information There are already upto three icons for each item (one in front, one after the text and one at the left side). But i still need to show more. So i used different text colors. Unfortunately only the red=stop,forbidden,protected and green=okay,valid,allowed is so universal kn...
Regardless of how hard/long it is, has anybody ever used C or C++ for web development? ...
This is in relation to this question. The proposed answers involve adding a property to "Form1" that is of type "Form2" which answers the question asked. But what if we wanted a less coupled solution. What are your suggestions? ...
Since J2ME apps have so many possible devices they can run on, there's lots to consider during each step of development. Are there websites that help you with the design process? Statistics of API and MIDP version availability on phones of all manufacturers? Browsing of APIs and Classes available by category? Articles and reviews of A...
Hi, I am working on a simple protocol stack for a small embedded system (multidrop, rs485 type stuff). In this stack, losely models after OSI layers: Application Network Datalink physical (serial driver) Each layer has its own header / footer portion that wraps the payload of the layer above it. I will be using my own buffer pool ...
I need to get up to speed with MOSS 2007. The initial requirements are quite limited but I want to make sure that the basic structure does not make future expansion difficult. I am fairly new to MOSS 2007 but have some experience with SPS 2003. Can anyone recommend lively SharePoint groups or forums where I can get answers to my questi...
We have a dilema; developing desktop application using matisse or jigloo.. Matisse has this XML form files which we are affraid of maintaining later, we don't even know should MyEclipse further support Matisse, even Netbeans - do you think they will give up os support of Matisse? Moreless Jigloo and Matisse have similar behaviour, alt...
When developing an application which mostly interacts with a database, what is a good way to start? The application requires a lot of filtering based on user input, sorting and structuring. ...
Hi, How can I store a video (either in database or file system) so that instead of starting streaming from starting I can start this streaming from any fix index. Main aim is like I have a large video of roads of New York from one end to other and corresponding map of New York save on a central server. Now a user opens up the website ...
Hi all, I'm after some guidance on how to approach coding a problem, I don't want to jump straight into coding without think about it as I need it to be as generic and customisable as possible, The scenario is i have a web service that acts as a gateway to downstream services, with the aim of authenticating and authorising SOAP messag...
I'm a developer ... not so much "the" UI guru type. I can get by with my photoshop skills to some extent but often find myself underestimating my time here and thinking that I'm probably not as efficient as I could be in this respect. Anyhow, I know I can't be the only developer on earth being tasked also with the design as well so ......
Previously we had desktop applications but given the fact that accessing the server (either physically or remotely) was undesirable for the client we turned them into windows services that will run in a (theoretically) 24/7. Now we need to provide a remote user interface to that services in order to keep the old functionality and the ol...
This is just a general design question. If you are developing a business component or service, (e.g. an object/service that exposes a relatively simple interface for handling billing transactions), what are some good ways to handle business-related errors? Say the component/service must integrate with a few different external web servi...