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Why we need RIA ? I didn't see any benefits from RIA？ it need a plugin to run it, this will bring headache to its user, compared to the regular html page.
Thanks.
RIA, or Rich Internet Applications, came as a ready solution to the problem of slackened Web browsing and low customer conversion rate.
RIA offers richer functionality by making use of HTML widgets available on standard browser-based Web applications.
Rich Internet Applications are providing users a multi-dimensional experience.
With the use of RIA, a part of the application runs directly within the users’ Web browser, allowing automatic navigation. It is a major improvement on traditional HTML and has transformed the static database of a website to a multi-functional online experience. Now, shoppers can see, “feel” and even try products online. RIA ensures large scale business returns and repeat visits, giving a boost to online business.
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Closed 9 years ago.
I am working on a team which is making a website similar to, say, Instagram. Similar in the sense that we are employing similar technologies in the back end, but the concept has no relation to Instagram.
Anyway, I was reading this article here which describes Instagram's compete stack:
What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
I'll be honest - I was quite overwhelmed by the number of different technologies they employ. What I want to know is that is it necessary to start with so many different and specific technologies to make something which can sustain a lot of traffic, and continue to work just fine?
Currently, we are working with an Apache web server, MySQL database, Django/python framework, HTML/CSS/Javascript front end, and Ajax to make things more dynamic - you know, the works. We are aiming to utilize Amazon Web Services to host our project. Our project is being built on Linux machines (Ubuntu).
Do we need to use a lot of other software packages/tools to ensure our website is top-notch? It is fully functional from our perspective. This may seem like a novice question, but we are novices relative to Instagram developers.
Start simple. Specialize as you have need.
Instagram is a MASSIVE property, and serves a lot of traffic under uncommon circumstances. Don't take their infrastructure as the way to start things. Start with what works, and then as you find things don't work, replace them.
As web projects grow and mature over time, they will often incorporate more and more specialized technologies and architectures to accommodate their specific needs. Don't take their infrastructures as a template, but rather, as a lesson to expect to grow and evolve your infrastructure as your product evolves.
Measure everything. Know where you need to get better. Iterate. GOTO 1. :)
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Closed 9 years ago.
I have to develop the game so that with same code (or may be few lines of change in code) will works in ANDRIOID and IOS, Blackberry (optional) or Windows (if possible).
My Objectives are:-
Most important - I need to package as native apps
Good graphics speed with HTML5 and CSS3 or may be some other language
Provide Gaming Engine needs (a native engine like Unity 3D or Cocos
Optional - can they do more than Android/IOS - like Tablet, Windows Phone, BB10, and > Desktop (Browser/Windows App store app)
Can anyone help me to evaluate which is best
PhoneGap
appMobi
Ludei
Corona
GameSalad
Shiva
Unity
Stencyl
Marmalade may be something else?
Right now I am open for 2D simple games but yes in future I also need to work on 3d context based games too.
PhoneGap isn't a 2D/gaming JS framework. It will help you just to build the bridge between your JS code and the native controllers of your device.
GameSalad isn't so bad but not really flexible. If you want to do advanced stuff, you'll feel stuck in its environment.
Cocos2D released a JS framework that works pretty well
http://cocos2d-javascript.org/
Or GameQuery with a lot of impressive demos
http://gamequeryjs.com/
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Closed 10 years ago.
I keep hearing the term "service" a lot, but I have a vague understanding of it. Could someone explain what a service is citing some practical examples?
It depends on the context. Very abstractly speaking, a service is some sort of program that offers some function, but the internals of which are completely opaque. I.e., a web service is something running somewhere on the web, having some sort of API which you can contact to get or submit some data. What exactly it does is none of your business, it just offers its service to you. On a system, for example a Windows Service may be a program running persistently in the background, doing something. Inside an application, you may have a service layer, which offers some functionality which you can use in the rest of the application through an API, but how exactly it works is irrelevant.
That's in contrast to, e.g., a function or library or class, which you usually import, manipulate, use more directly. A service is more self-contained, offering only its functionality with nothing much in the way of introspecting it.
macdonald's is a service. you hand over some money, they give you a bigmac.
politicians are a service. you hand them your vote, they hand back lies and steal your lunch money, then charge you for doing so.
in computing terms, you hand over some data (a number, a string of text, etc..), the service takes that data, does something with it, and returns a result.
e.g. google translate is a service. google search is a service. godaddy's DNS registrar is a service. a computing service is no different than a real-world service.
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What's the difference between a bot on MediaWiki vs using the Rest Based api to do the operations?
If by "bot" you mean screen-scraping, such "bots" are severely discouraged and we developers don't make any guarantee that screen-scraping will work reliably, i.e. HTML output can drastically change at any moment without any prior notice. On the other hand, MediaWiki's web API is designed with stability in mind - in addition to other benefits such as machine-readable output (ol' good JSON is much easier to parse than tag soup) and better performance (we don't spend server resources on sking rendering, you don't spend bandwidth on receiving it).
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Closed 12 years ago.
Lets look around for famous programming languages and their runtime environments and frameworks...
C, C++ are hard and complex for a
small and simple application.
Java is going to be a commercial
stuff for Oracle.
PHP is good but only about web.
C#, VB.NET and commonly .NET
Framework is Microsoft product.
Mono project? A few people trust it
as i saw!
Python and ruby and ... They are good
but not good enough!-
I hope i don't forget any other famous language!
My question is:
Does Open Source World Need A New Great Programming Language?
This question will probably be closed as subjective but here's my subjective view anyway:
Definitely not, the open source world is already far too fragmented already and has more than enough languages.
There are already fantastic open source communities around Java, Python, Ruby and PHP. All are great languages for the domains that they are designed for.
There are also some great upcoming languages such as Scala, Clojure etc.
It's a waste of time trying to be perfectionist about what language to use since everyone has a different idea of "perfect" and the value in a language lies in it being well used and providing an open, comprehensive platform for development, not in in being the "perfect" language for just two or three people in the world.