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What is the name where the application shows messages of any updates available whenever the update is available?
Is it called web service?
For example, I have installed an antivirus (avast); sometimes a small popup message shows that an update is available.
I have very vague idea about it, it must be contacting the server periodically for checking the new updates are available or not.
I do not know what the application name is so I was not able to search.
It's called an auto-update software feature. It's part of the software itself usually - If you'd like to look at some API's regarding implementing them into your application, find out more here. WinSparkle is also something you could look into if your doing Windows development.
Those are vendor dependant solutions. It is usually not a separate software checking for updates. All they do is query a web service that replies with the 'current' version. At least as long as talking about MS-Windows. More elegant and efficient solutions exist in the Linux environment.
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I am new in development. My manager wants me to be ready with the Netsuite integration with a third party HRM software(named: MenaHRM) that is open for integration. Can anyone help me where to start? Any prerequisites? Please guide me.
If you want a simple solution, check out Jitterbit iPaaS (integration) software. It can connect pretty much anything to anything else (and handles NetSuite very well).
Outside of that if that software can send or receive via an API, webhooks, or even an automated export, you can build out scripts (RESTlets or Suitelets) in NetSuite. The NetSuite scripts can either poll the other system for data (not the best, since you won't have "live" data), or receive updates each time the other system is touched.
I've built these custom integrations in the past (ZenDesk to NetSuite), using NetSuite, ZAT, and Python. One thing to keep in mind, if you build it custom, is to watch out for circular references. You don't want an update from system A triggering an update back to system A, because System B was updated by the integration. :)
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I run a small startup and have developed some web applications. We use open source technologies heavily and I want to give proper attribution to everything that we use.
The only thing I am concern about is it safe to expose everything? Such as webserver, development language and framework etc. Are there any pitfalls of doing so?
e.g. One particular concern is if some vulnerability be discovered in framework, application can be easy target until gets a patch.
The more one knows the more one can leverage. Said that, it shouldn't be to much of a problem if you build your web application with security in mind.
Shouldn't be an issue - many companies make public the fact that they use particular open source solutions.
The main pitfalls are the obvious security related ones: have you changed all the default admin passwords etc.?
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Does anyone have any ideas on measuring the popularity of an open source project? I thought it would be interesting to create a tools which would compare the popularity of similar open source projects.
The first metric that came to mind was to compare the number of Google results for each specific software, but it seems difficult to programmatically obtain this number (other than scraping it from the direct search page - this also runs into legal issues with Google I believe).
Any other metric ideas? I'd like the end product to be a tool, so metrics which are able to be accessed through code would be preferred.
Thanks,
Chris
If the projects are hosted by platforms like Sourceforge or Github, you can access the number of downloads...
SourceForge offer download statistics;
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=263007&ugn=dvwa&mode=week&type=prdownload
Google Code have activity ratings.
Maybe you could use those?
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I have an application deployed in Air, written in AS3 that the client wants to install and test, I have developed a simple license app, but he is pushing for a full license which he said he will fully pay on next Monday.
How would you create a procedure in AS3 to deactivate application next Monday? How secure will it be? Will simply changing machine date bypass this?
Changing the machine date will easily bypass your security mechanism. You need something more robust, which cannot be controlled by anybody other than you.
If your application is going to run connected to the web, you might be able to poll a remote server to see if the application is allowed to run or not. This is more flexible in that you can control the validity of the application without embedding dates into it.
There might even be off-the-shelf commercial components that do this for you.
But a more serious problem is that you have reason to distrust your client. Maybe you can collect part of the money when you deliver a limited-period beta and take it on good faith that he'll give you the remainder later.
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I'm considering trying to get more granular analytics for my sites than the free plan on my current provider, Clicky, provides.
Piwik looks like a strong contender in the analytics space (and I'm surprised I haven't heard about it before) but I want to be sure I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater by swapping to it.
Does anyone have any experience with this software and - in particular - are there any people out there who've tried customising the code or developing their own plugin?
To add to ghommey's response: we're also using Piwik right now and it fits the bill for our purposes. Separating IP ranges isn't really a concern for us as we use separate development and deployment servers.
As for customizing it, I've written a couple of Piwik plugins, one of which served to enable SSO for our (non-PHP) project. Writing the code itself has been relatively straightforward; however their authentication cookies violate the HTTP cookie RFCs (RFC2109 and RFC2068) in that they use illegal characters so there might be also other dragons in places.
AS of the latest release (q1 2010) filtering IPs is possible.