workflow

Anyone have a good web dev work flow they recommend?

Hey all, does anyone have a good work flow they recommend? I'm pretty new to web dev and using css, php, html, javascript, and mysql databases. I'm looking for something along the lines of an IDE/plugins, ability to browse/modify databases would be great too! Thanks! ...

Entity Based Workflow

I want to design a workflow for my e document systems. Can any one provide some well explained text for Entity Based Workflow system? My app is being developed in PHP. Thanks. ...

How can I host the Windows Workflow 4 'Workflow Designer"? Is Silverlight, or Click once supported?

There is a question that references the old, buggy 3.5 version here. This question is regarding the WF that comes with .NET 4. My question is, where can I find a code sample and information on hosting the Workflow 4 Designer? Is Silverlight Supported, or Click Once? What .NET client profiles are supported? ...

Windows Workflow Designer Metadata Editor (vs.net 2010)

Hi everyone, Just familiarizing myself with TFS 2010, especially Team Build which now uses Windows Workflow. Have been setting up some custom workflows etc to get used to it and so far so good. My question is about this blogpost: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jpricket/archive/2009/12/23/tfs-2010-custom-process-parameters-part-2-metadata.aspx...

Working on large JavaScript applications

Our file structures is pretty good, organizing functionality in separate folders. My question is how do others work on applications that involves upwards of 500 JavaScript files. We have written a maven plugin to concatenate these files together (also runs YUI compressor). However, this involves 3-10seconds of compiling for every ch...

How can .NET MVC render forms based on external XML?

A non-developer wants the ability to modify scripts that users read on several screens. For example, the first script may read, "Thanks for calling, how may I help you?" and contain some input elements. After clicking a "Next" button on this screen, they are presented with another form with another script with more input elements. Ho...

Can someone suggest a good workflow for working with WPF and PRISM?

I've worked with PRISM on one major project before so I'm pretty familiar with the concepts involved but I'm about to embark on a self managed project and was wondering if anyone has any pearls of wisdom about how to go about implementing an appropriate architecture for a straight forward LOB/Forms over data app. I'll want to leverage as...

How to improve workflow for creating a Lua-based Wireshark dissector

I've finally created a Dissector for my UDP protocol in Lua for Wireshark, but the work flow is just horrendous. It consists of editing my custom Lua file in my editor, then double-clicking my example capture file to launch Wireshark to see the changes. If there was an error, Wireshark informs me via dialogs or a red line in the Tree ana...

Should DreamWeaver be in my front-end workflow?

I am looking to speed up time to develop website layouts. So I am wondering if using DreamWeaver for layouts is useful - efficient. I am looking at purchasing this software, so, I had a few questions. I am very comfortable coding HTML, CSS and JavaScript(jQuery) by hand in either PHPDesigner or Notepad++. Most of the time for layouts I...

git-svn and a remote git repo sync

At my workplace we use SVN for version control. I switched to git-svn when I found out about it, and recently I decided to sync some of my private branches to another remote git repo. The workflow, then, consists of rebasing from and pushing to the SVN repo via git-svn, while working on separate private feature branches that are pushed t...

Workflow languages?

I am looking for a list of current workflow languages. I know about BPEL, WS-CDL and YAWL. What other current languages are there? A short description of how they operate would be excellent. All suggestions welcome. Thanks! ...

To Workflow or Not to Workflow?

I am responsible for a team of developers who will are about to start development of a light weight insurance claims system. The system involves a lot of manual tasks and business workflows and we are looking at using Windows Workflow (.NET 4.0). An example of the business domain is as follows: A policy holder calls the contact centre ...

Is there a downside to this Mercurial workflow: named branch "dead" head?

I love the flexibility of named branches but I have some concerns about the prolifieration of heads. Even when the branch is closed, it still shows up in the heads. I have an idea for how to clean up the output from "hg heads" My question to the gurus: "What am I missing?" First off you may ask, Why might I want to totally hide the he...

Testing workflows in Django

Hi folks, I really love testing and building unit tests, but I find it quite annoying having to build tests for a website's workflow. e.g. Register -> Check email -> Activate account -> Login or Login -> Edit details -> Submit and view profile manual testing = loads of time + tireing even when using app such as Selenium, going t...

Repeated execution of code activity in SharePoint workflow!?

Hi all, I have a custom workflow implementation what requires updation of an external DB. I created a simple workflow for text purpose and found a strange thing! my Db update/insert code is placed in a code activity of the workflow. it seems the code activity is executed multiple times when the workflow is invoked on a simple list item...

New Git User: Suggested Workflow Help (Specific Example)

Hello all, I have read most of the Progit Book and this tutorial as well. I think I am getting a very good idea of gits power, its low-cost branching, etc. However, I have a very specific example that I need help with that I think will better help me understand how to bring Git into my workflow. I have a document with an essay in it. ...

How does the workflow engine receive the external event?

WorkflowRuntime workflowRuntime = new WorkflowRuntime(); ExternalDataExchangeService dataExchangeService; dataExchangeService = new ExternalDataExchangeService(); workflowRuntime.AddService(dataExchangeService); PaymentProcessingService paymentProcessing; paymentProcessing = new PaymentProcessingService(); dataExchangeService.Add...

RESTful Workflow Service Endpoints in WF4 / WCF

Folks, I'm building a pretty standard workflow that I want exposed via a WCF endpoint - I'm using the "WCF Service Application" project template and I've got a .xamlx service. This is a very simple document interchange workflow service - I want consumers to POST me a blob of XML as the body of an HTTP post (with HTTP headers containing...

log4net and Sharepoint 2007 Workflow

I'm working on a project with some custom Sharepoint Workflow components which I'd like to add log4net to. I'm really struggling to get log4net to output anything at all though! Here's my current setup: In the codebehind for my Workflow: private ILog log; public MessageQueueWorkflow() { InitializeComponent(); string filepat...

Getting request IP and headers

I am building a service in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 in Visual Studio designer mode. How do I retrieve client IP and request headers in WF, VS Designer mode? ...