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Wow. You don't ask for much, do you? Are you just trying to get rich on the back of other peoples ideas, because as a business plan that's not very effective.
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Shut your mouth cyber-slave and get to back to coding his web site.;P
God Bless,
Jason
Paul Conrad wrote:
Chuck Norris keeps the hamsters going whenever Chris is gone on vacation. Just stares them down and they keep the servers going
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Haha....thats what I was thinking.
I'm finding the only constant in software development is change it self.
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theamsun wrote: can you guide me for a high level design for the site
At a strictly high level, you'll need:
1 x Computer
1 x Connection to the Internet
1 x Web Server Software & some HTML pages to serve from the Web Server Software
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday."
-Moleman
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I would double that as a backup; and dont forget a UPS. Cant do without.
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What about web page editor/tools? Should we just point him to vi ?
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I hope he will allow Pete to choose his own set of tools.
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Like what Pete said in my sig. He could just use Notepad or Vi, throw some html tags at the webserver and see if they "stick"
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Luc Pattyn wrote: I hope he will allow Pete to choose his own set of tools.
Nope - I'm a lackey. I get to use what the boss tells me.
Oh, how I hope that I get promoted from lackey to henchman someday.
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Hi there.
I am working on an application that shall be used as a local frontend to an online image database. The application shall display a list of images matching specific criteria as thumbnails and, upon click, will show the images in full size. The server has a list of newly added content which shall be presented to the user on startup, ideally showing every new content since the last synchronisation.
The problem is that a rather "small" number of images (~30 that is) will eat up several megs of disk space (~10 MB). I don't want to rely on the users having a broadband connection and also can't afford to let my application eat hunderts of megs of disk space, so apparently there is a need of some clever caching behaviour.
Now I have never done this before and don't even know how a regular web browser handles caching, so I need some information to get me started or even better, some ideas on how to solve this.
If it matters, I am working on .NET with C# since I hope that this will give me the possibility to port the project later to tge Mono platform.
Any help would be appreciated!
Regards,
Markus
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From what I understand you will create a website showing a gallery of images. You will also create a Windows application that will access this website and show the images as thumbnails and full-size. If this is the case then there is no way around the connection speed problem - while thumbnails will be small (a few KB each) the full-size images will always be large and no amount of caching can solve this.
A web browser caches things by simply storing them on disk. If it hasn't been used in a certain amount of time it is then deleted.
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Guess that question is answered. I thought caching would be somewhat more sophisticated ... well, it was early that day ... and the lack of coffee ... you know.
From what I've seen so far, there are two major caching solutions for .NET; The ASP Cache and the Caching Application Block. What I need is a cache that is persistent over application restarts (basically the ASP cache isn't, but I think this could be easily implemented) and configurable during runtime - but I have seen no possibility to restrict the memory used on either one.
Any idea how this is done or could be done? Or is there any other cache implementation that features this already?
Thanks so far!
-- modified at 11:42 Thursday 19th July, 2007
Regards,
Markus
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I'm looking at using one of these two to provide a means for our support people (not raw users) to create and maintain definitions for exporting data to a text file, to be imported into accounting packages. The prime candidate would be SSIS, but I fear that the expertise level would be a bit high their, so my other candidate is Reporting Services and RDL, to provide a user friendly WYSIWYG interface to design the layouts for text files, but how do I create a report that renders directly to a text file?
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Hello all,
I'm new to the .NET universe and there for a little lost in the water.
I have a small task to complete and I found myself blocked and pressed for time so decided to ask for help. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Here is my problem... as clearly explained as I can:
I have two MSSQL database servers set up that ensure redundancy and back for a data base used by several applications.
I also have a service set up that periodically checks to see witch server is up and sets an internal value according to the result of it's tests.
My task is to make all the applications interrogate this service to obtain the address of the current SQL server to use.
Applications are written in VB, C++ C# and are on variouse machines.
Anybody has any idea what would be the best way to do this ?
Thank you in advance.
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The answer that springs immediately to mind here is to use remoting for this. I would have a remotable object in the service which would provide the information you need. Then, your clients would simply use remoting to get this information from the service.
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A few colleagues of mine are in disagreement as to what is the best practice for coding boolean flags. Should you use the actual words "true" or "false" or use the integers "1" or "0" (or -1 in some languages) respectively.
I favor a boolean flag to show values as "true" or "false" because it makes reading 800 lines of code easier. 0's and 1's can be confusing, in my scenario, because we are constantly setting variables back to a regular integer values of 1 or 0.
Thanks!
-- Steve
[ Don't do today what can be done tomorrow ]
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I believe you are right. In terms of readability if the language you are using actually supports the boolean type and the true,false keywords then it means is recommended to use them. In certain cases this will not be true. For example C did not have a book type until C99 came out and then C++ provided bool type and true/false keywords as a built in feature. If you do use C++ then it is recommended to use the true/false type since they are provided. Even in C , it was a good coding practice to #define the keywords TRUE and FALSE to 1 and 0 respectively to provide a more readable code.
Just my humble opinion
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Steve
I have to agree with you here. True/false are better, primarily because they are unambiguous.
Using 1/-1 or 0 causes confusion - is it a number or a boolean condition? What happens if I add them together?
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Hi,
Of course I agree with the true/false syntax preference over 1/0.
I want to add one big caveat: in C integer values other than 0 and 1 will fail the
if (x==TRUE) test but pass the if(x) test, yielding some very nasty bugs.
So the recommendation might be:
1. to use !=FALSE rather than ==TRUE
2. to use IS_TRUE(x) and IS_FALSE(x) macros instead
3. to use FALSE and !FALSE rather than FALSE and TRUE (but not ==!FALSE)
None of these could be enforced however.
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Thanks for the input...good to know that I am not the only one who thinks that way about Boolean logic.
[ Don't do today what can be done tomorrow ]
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Hi All,
I am looking for very efficient solution for this problem. Here is my problem description - I have serveral database,
from which I have to pull data (All databases differ in physical design implementation), and insert them in standardized
common database. Let me give you an example
Database - 1
Table - 1
Col_1 - int
Col_2 - text
Col_3 - float
Database - 2
Table - 2
Col_1 - int
Col_2 - int
Col_3 - float
Col_4 - text
Col_5 - text
Common database
col_1 (id) - int
col_2 - int
col_3 - float
col_4 - text
So mapping between database - 1 and common database would be
col_1 --> col_2
col_2 --> col_4
col_3 --> col_3
and between database - 2 and commond database would be
col_1 --> col_2
col_2 --> col_2
col_3 --> col_3
col_4 --> col_4
col_5 --> col_4
How can I achive this? One more thing, this mapping can be changed during runtime.
Thanks,
Ashish Patel
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Well - for a start, you might want to try posting in only one forum. Go ahead, pick one.
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Hi.
I wish to create a 'circular buffer' that one thread can write to, and another read from. The data is going into the buffer very fast, and there is a lot of it. I will probably use malloc() to create a buffer, however I wish to use a large buffer, but due to the speed the data is going in and out, anything that will slow the whole process will result in an incomplete stream being read out of the buffer.
I am very worried about using a too large buffer, and the memory being put into a page file. Could someone please inform me how likely this is, when it will happen, how I can prevent it, the largest memory allocation I can create etc?
Thank you all!!
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