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How can we avoid having to build yet another CRM system from scratch
We are building an accounting web application. In our database, we store basic data about our customers, like phone number, their login informations, because these things are tied into our web ...
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For a web-application, should I programmatically create the database tables or provide a schema file and instructions?
The few LAMP web applications I have installed require me to create the necessary database tables myself, with a schema file, instead of doing it automatically with a script or setup page. Is this a ...
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Managing Alerts in Web Application Using RESTful API
I have designed a RESTful API and I am now working on creating a web application to use the service.
One thing I am struggling with is how to manage alerts in the web application (similar to the ...
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Rails-API gem, Is there such thing as an API only application?
I've built a few API's using the complete rails stack. In each project there have been multiple uses for rails core features. Each of the API has had management screens for monitoring usage, managing ...
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Reuse Business Logic between Web and API
We have a website and two mobile apps that connect through an API. All the platforms do the exactly same things. Right now the structure is the following:
Website. It manages models, controllers, ...
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Looking to create website that can have custom GUI and database per user [closed]
I have developed an MS Access database for a company to track data in regards to production of a certain commodity. It has many many tables, forms, reports, etc. These were all done as the user ...
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One codebase - lots of hosted services (similar to a basecamp style service) - planning structure
We have built a service (PHP Based) for a client, and are now looking to offer it to other clients as a hosted service. For this example, think of it like a hosted forum service, where a client signs ...
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What is the origin of the phrase “SaaS”?
Recently I heard someone say they built a "SaaS" application. At first I thought "this guy knows something new", and I figured SaaS was some hyped enterprise framework or design pattern, but after ...
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Free cloud web service development [closed]
I am looking for a free (as in beer) combination of services, for learning "cloud SW development" and very small scale private use (say, a private streamlined web shopping&todo list with simple ...
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Drop in service for account management, authentication, identity?
I'm building an Android app and associated set of web services for uploading/downloading data. I need a basic (no frills) solution for account management (register, login, logout, verify ...
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Is Web application a Web service?
According to W3C:
Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format
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OAuth2 vs Public API
My understanding of OAuth (2.0) is that its a software stack and protocol to allow 2+ web apps to share information about a single end user. User A is a member of Site B and Site C; Site B wants to ...
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Flexible cloud file storage for a web.py app?
I'm creating a web app using web.py (although I may later rewrite it for Tornado) which involves a lot of file manipulation. One example, the app will have a git-style 'commit' operation, in which ...
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Java web app, with plugin framework and ability to connect to source for updates
I've searched all around for some good sources, but either have been searching for the wrong keywords, or I'm just missing something. I'm looking to redevelop a web app I've been using for some time ...
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Should cookies be used in a RESTful API?
I'm specifically interested in how users perform authorized / authenticated operations on a web API.
Are authentication cookies compatible with the REST philosophy, and why?
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What services exist for finding someone specific to then run your own peer to peer software with?
If you give people peer to peer software (such as a web sockets application if the peer to peer part gets implemented, but could be anything) the first step for some kinds of applications is to find a ...
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How should an administrating web application control a WCF service's entities?
We have a WCF Service (self-hosted) which can receive several types of calls from the outside, each call encapsulates a business logic procedure.
We need to construct a web application which will act ...
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Is it typical for a provider of a web services to also provide client libraries?
My company is building a corporate Java web-app and we are leaning towards using GWT-RPC as the client-server protocol for performance reasons. However, in the future, we will need to provide an API ...
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Need to make a stock inventory application
I need to make an application for my dad to keep track of stock trading inventory. He trades shares for himself and for his clients and would like to keep the records, things like buy/sell price of ...
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N-Tiered Web App Using JQuery/ASP.NET Web Services
For fairly small, non-complex web applications, we have utilized jQuery to make asynchronous calls to an ASP.NET web service for interaction with our Sqlite data store. This has proven to be a pretty ...
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Is SOA suitable for developers or only for business/IT management people?
Let's suppose you're the lead of a team of developers that needs to build a big information system such as an ERP or Human Resources software, or whatever system that is composed by multiple business ...
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Should MVC/REST return a 403 or 404 for resources belonging to other users?
When working with a resource-based site (such as an MVC application or REST service), we have two main options when a client tries to GET a resource that they don't have access to:
403, which says ...
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I need a true random number generator web service
I need a way to get non-deterministic random numbers on demand for my application.
However i do not wish/have the capabilities to build the hardware myself, thus I'm looking for a web service which ...
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Feeds to stay up to date in web development frameworks? [duplicate]
When you start a web development project you have to read a lot, really a lot, specially if you're a noob. As you develop you get outdated. In a 6 months time frame a lot will happen!
You cannot read ...
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Question about API and Web application code sharing
This is a design question. I have a multi part application with several user types. There is a user client for the patient that interacts with a web service. There is an API evolving behind the web ...
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How to obtain GPS Coordinates for local businesses?
Is anybody aware of a database that consists of businesses, addresses and GPS location information, preferably searchable by city at a minimum? I have an application in mind that I'd like to develop ...
