How do you go about developing an application?

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how to go about developing an application for 3 Windows platforms

I want to rewrite an application that will be available on Windows desktop, Windows store, and Windows Phone. Current state: Windows desktop is MFC app. Windows store and Windows Phone are sharing a PCL for backend and network comm. I have to rewrite the whole app so that backend and APIs are added once and reused by 3 platforms. One way I see is to rewrite the desktop app using .Net and reuse the PCL. But WPF .Net desktop apps are slow. Evernote Windows app was a .Net app until version 3, they...

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Evernote dropping WPF was years ago. Most of the issues they faced were fixed in .NET 4.0. A native...

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I want to make a web application that displays scores after extracting their information from feeds? How should I go about developing it?

I am developing for a portal that already exists in Django. I have two options- either scrape the source every time a user opens it (using BeautifulSoup), or save it in the database every minute or so. I could also do some scraping through JavaScript...

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I think you'll have to save the scores in the database after scraping them from the feeds. You'll have...

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Well short answer is that you can. But the bigger question is "Is it worth it ?". Patenting...

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Icons: What are the most intuitive indicator icons for a web application to mean "not yet started," "in progress," and "completed"?

Red means stop....or does it? I'm developing an icon set for a web application, and I'm looking for indicators to mean "not yet started," "in progress," and "completed." My inclination is to go with red, yellow, green, but...

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I'm a big fan of using red for errors, green for success or completion. To me, green-yellow-red would...

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What is the best way to try a small scale testing for a minimum viable product version of a Twitter application?

I am developing a unique Twitter application. I am a huge believer of lean startup approach, so want to try releasing a minimum viable product and see how people react. I have designed it so that it would go viral, but before fully announcing and releasing...

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The true MVP would to just build a landing page and see if people 'get' it and sign up. If they do then...

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Job application form help?

i am filling in a job application form for a restaurant supervisor one of the questions is. How would you go about coaching and developing your team in order to maximise their ...show more

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first you need to know the skills of the team to know their potential and what development they need...

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I want to become a software engineer but I don't know how I'm going to go about it. Any ideas?

I already know quite a bit of C/C++ and a very tiny amount of Python. I've used Git and GitHub before, but I personally don't like using them that much because I sometimes get some sort of error. I'm not sure which field I'd like to work in. I think...

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Being good at TopCoder or Hackerrank doesn't determine if you'll make a great programmer.  None of us...

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Where does the DTD go?

For the web developers in the house: when viewing the generated code for a web page, the Document Type Definition is missing. Where does it go? I'm developing a web application for browsing network device information (on routers, switches, wireless APs...

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Well it's not really part of the markup, it specifies what type of markup is to follow, and so doesn...

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How do I go about finding out how many servers (as a function of number of users) I will need to host my web application?

I'm putting together a business model for my web application. As part of my expenditure, I need to estimate how many servers I need as a function of number of users. What's a good first step to finding this out? Depending on whether my application can...

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You don't want to store the files, music, or anything else you might stream or that would peg your web...

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When should we use Bean factory and when should we use Application Context while developing Spring Applications?

I am learning Spring and I am reading "Spring in Action" book. It says, "There’s no single Spring container. Spring comes with several container implementations that can be categorized into two distinct types. a) Bean factories...

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I would recommend you stick to using ApplicationContext in most cases.  It provides a few "extras...

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