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The Request/Response Cycle

When User A decides he want to pay a visit to http://example.com/ it all begins with a Request. A short moment later he is given a Response. In this cycle Request-Response a lot is going on, in ...
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Designing models for a generic service layer

We are building a web interface to a tiered membership system, which will interface with a third-party CRM web service for the creation and management of accounts. The web service, unfortunately, is ...
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How to manage automated emails sent from a web application

I am designing a web application and I am wondering how to design the architecture to manage sending automated emails. Currently I have this feature build into my web app and the emails are sent ...
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Web Project Class Architecture

I think this is a good question for here but I'm not 100% sure. Please flag if it's too vague. I've worked on many websites where common framework classes are overridden. Since I work mostly in ...
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How are programming teaching websites built? [duplicate]

For those that don't know I'm referring to codeacademy or codeschool type of websites, where the user inputs ruby/python/whateverlanguage, and gets back the result evaluated. Is the code input ...
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Organizing ASP.Net Single Page Application with Nancy

As a personal project, I'm creating a single page, asp.net web application using Nancy to provide RESTful services to the single page. Due to the complexity of the single page, particularly the ...
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Thin client Web browser?

Many times i have heard people saying that a particular hardware to be running a thin client web browser. But from the definition of "thin-client", doesnt all browser qualify as a thin-client? as all ...
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What are the PHP web server architecture components and the purpose of each one of them?

Given below is an image of a basic PHP web server architecture: Would someone please explain the several components available and how they interact? I'm more concerned of how the PHP Core operates ...
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Basic web architecture : Perl -> PHP

This is an architecture question. If there is a better forum, please redirect me. Apologies in advance. Essentially every website is built around a relational database, right? When a user uploads ...
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Architecture of a “website generator” web application

What is the most maintainable and efficient way to architect a web application who's purpose is to host and generate websites which can be customized to a certain degree? There are a lot of these ...
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Thoughts on web development architecture through integrating C++ in the future to a web application

I'm looking to build a website (it's actually going to be a commercial startup) I saw this question and it really shed some light on a few things that I was hoping to understand (kudos to the op). ...
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PHP web application architecture/design [closed]

I've been thrown head-first into a new job developing web applications in PHP. I'm by no means new to PHP, but I haven't developed large-scale applications before. I'm wondering how to structure my ...
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What is a good way to refactor a large, terribly written code base by myself? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Techniques to re-factor garbage and maintain sanity? I have a fairly large PHP code base that I have been writing for the past 3 years. The problem is, I wrote this code ...
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What techniques would you use for a next generation java web application?

I'm working at a site similar to Foursquare and Yelp, with approximately 100000 unique requests each week that generates content, growing steadily. We are currently using: Seam as Java web ...
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Looking for an information system for collaborating on files metadata [closed]

I am looking for an information system which has the following features: upload files and add custom properties depending on file type (e.g., author, composer, painter, singer); support for ...
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Which technology stack to use for car pooling over web and mobile

I want to start working on a project where I want to build a intranet website and mobile app for people working in my office for car pooling. The basic idea is that if anyone is interested in looking ...
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Does anyone have suggestions for design or open source libraries specifically for a single page AJAX application?

I'm working on a major new version of a browser based application and I'm looking for comments/suggestions about the architecture/design. It's a single page application using AJAX and client side ...
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What do you do when one thinks the code isn't complicated enough?

After six months of development on a project, our stakeholders have had a "gut check" and have decided that the path that we've been walking (a custom designed application framework and data access ...
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What are current Biggest Challenges faced by Ecommerce Applications?

I am in the process to start Product Development for E-commerce and Online Retail domain but before starting I would like to know what are the biggest challenges faced by current state of Art ...
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Software Design for Product Verticals and Service Verticals

In every industry there are two verticals Product Vertical and Service Vertical, so my question is: How does design approach changes while designing Software for Product Vertical as compared to ...
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Best development architecture for a small team of programmers ( WAMP Stack )

I'm in the first month of work in a new company.. and after I met the two programmer's and asked how things are organized in terms of projects inside the company, they simply shrug their shoulders, ...
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What is REST (in simple English)

Lately I have become interested in familiarizing myself with REST. I tried reading wiki entry on REST, but it was of no help. I would really appreciate it if someone can explain in simple English ...