What is the best language for rapid prototyping? Here are the main aspects that I'd be looking for: Has a good GUI-builder tool that integrates well with the language Easy to read Quick to write short snippets of code and integrate them into a project Interpreted, or else a quick write/compile/run cycle Easy to integrate code from C/C+...
I am building a prototype for a web-based application and was considering building the front-end in HTML, which can then be reused later for the actual application. I had done a Flash-based prototype earlier, which embedded the .swf into a C# executable. Flash made for rapid turnaround time while the Windows application provided unlimite...
Who is winning in the "Low vs High fidelity prototyping" debate? Should prototype-zero (P0) be the first version of the final product? Or should be P-0 always a throwaway? What approach is the industry favoring? Excelent article from wikipedia: Software prototyping ...
I've been developing .Net pages for business web apps for the last year or so. We're mostly working in 2.0 for a myriad of reasons. Much of the work is prototyping to throw data on a page, collect user feedback on the data and interactions, rinse and repeat. I find that built in .Net controls are great for this type of rapid visualiza...
Before you start working on a software project how do you show your employees your prototype. Most people either draw it on paper or write it on a whiteboard. How would you show it to your employees who live far away? Do they just take a picture of it or fax the paper to them? or do people just use a website not to draw there prototypes...
Hopefully without violating any NDA, here is my question: I have been reviewing the WWDC session on prototyping, and I've gotten stuck on whatever we weren't shown that is in the UIViewAdditions file. Can anyone point me in the right direction to find the code from that file? ...
I have a JS script with tons of functions, on big on is this: function id(i) { if(document.getElementById) return document.getElementById(i); return; } It just saves me many bytes in typing out document.getElementById() each time. My problem is I frequently add and remove classes and other attributes from elements. I w...
I am doing some prototyping using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. The prototype is for an application suite to run on a mobile device. Each screen is built in it's own DIV. There is one home screen, several screens off that, et cetera. The user should be able to dump out to the home screen at any time. There are certain elements in each scree...
I'm using SketchFlow for the first time, and am confused as to why my text isn't showing up in the "Buxton Sketch" font it's supposed to (see image). I just did a repair installation, and it didn't make a difference. In the Text properties, I don't see "Buxton Sketch" as an option, either. I'd appreciate any help. UPDATE Everything look...
I have added a simple .js to my page that has some pretty mundane common-task sort of functions added to the Object and Array prototypes. Through trial and error I've figured out that adding any function to Object.prototype, no matter it's name or what it does causes javascript errors in jQuery: The culprit? Object.prototype.foo = fun...
Hi all, from your experience, which is the most effective approach to implement artificial neural networks prototypes? It is a lot of hype about R (free, but I didn't work with it) or Matlab (not free), another possible choice is to use a language like C++/Java/C#. The question is mainly targeting the people that tried to test some neu...
I am looking for some tool that would help me prototype basic website structure and logistics (or simply user interface). It should be extremely efficient in the matter of time needed to do simple changes like changing position of objects on the page. It should provide features for creating multiple pages and linking them together. I d...
We're beginning to design a new product, and our UI guy is knocking out screenshots like there's no tomorrow. Our boss, though, wants to be able to actually interact with the site as it would look with various features and skins. I can whip up simple features pretty quickly with Groovy on Grails (or any of a dozen other options), but w...
I think there's a code structuring conflict between extending (or maintaining) the existing functionality and adding completely new functionality. The best approach for adding new functionality is prototyping - you want to keep everything closer together, separate it from the old code, and fiddle with new stuff until it starts producin...
G'Day, I am looking to prototype a windows based GUI. Ideally I would like: Be able create new GUI's and change existing ones quickly The resulting "thing" to be self contained Have the ability to include limited data where necessary ie. When showing a grid including the headers and perhaps a few rows of data for the grid. Allow cl...
Here is my scenario... I am prototyping in SketchFlow so I create an Xml file for my dummy data and then databind that to a data grid. I then want to setup some things like widths and header text instead of using all autogenerated details. So here is the question... Is there an easy way to convert the Autogenerated columns into Xaml so...
I'm using selenium in my test suite, but since it's slow to set up, I'd like to prototype my xpaths on live pages, rather than waiting for tests to run. Is there a good way to do this? Firebug's $x xpath seems to not work very well jQuery doesn't seem to support Xpath selectors natively, though it used to in version 1.2. using the nati...
Possible Duplicates: Do you feel that writing on paper helps you develop better? What advantages does sketching a user interface on paper have? drawing interfaces in paper, having huge piles of paper demonstrating the "flow" of the program, having to have a huge eraser in case of changes do not seem appealing to me. Yet a l...
I've used Douglass Crockford's Object.beget, but augmented it slightly to: Object.spawn = function (o, spec) { var F = function () {}, that = {}, node = {}; F.prototype = o; that = new F(); for (node in spec) { if (spec.hasOwnProperty(node)) { that[node] = spec[node]; } } return that; }; This way you can "...
What tools (apart from Visio) will generate visually pleasing website site maps or diagrams of a conceptual website? We want to present nice diagrams to our client, but we're unsure about where to get startedwe're all coders, not designers. Visio shapes or stencils are quite old. What tools are others in the industry using? ...