Questions tagged [applications]
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How 3D assets are managed in real time configurators?
We see a lot of 3D configurator web applications on the web and even other type of configurators in embedded systems, such as LED Totem displays. From real time car configurators which every major car ...
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Microservice & Clients interaction : Best way to persist previous API state information in successive API calls
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We have multiple microservices, like Home, Menu & Cart, exposed via Gateway. Each one has API exposed to the app. Now, each API has certain information that is needed by the successive API....
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Within the same computer, what is the difference between API and IPC?
So, an Application Programming Interface is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other.
An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more
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When Is it worth writing your own CRUD generator for project?
I need to make an app for employees & employers.
When is it worth writing your own CRUD generator for a project with the aim of process automation?
With such a generator I wouldn’t need to create ...
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Dynamic loading of objects defined during development for a running system
So I have a design/architectural question. I want to develop a pattern in a programming language that is able to allow a app command-line shell to send commands to a running application to create ...
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Deploying appconfigs to different environments
I have a project on Azure DevOps that uses an appconfig.
The appconfig holds sensetive data like usernames and passwords and is committed empty to the repo.
I have to deploy the project on two ...
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Excel/VBA to Application
In an engineering company, there are many engineers that edit in Excel/VBA Spreadsheets to perform some engineering calculations.They all do more or less similar things: calculate, manage engineering ...
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Interconnected technique for web, mobile and desktop
I am planning to do the university project with the Desktop application + web application + mobile application, I have planned to use languages for these 3 as below:
Desktop application: Java SE
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One Super App or Many Single-Purpose Apps
While Players like Rappi/Alibaba / Wechat have gone the super app way, i.e on single app to host many unrelated services, Ecosystems like Google, Amazon etc still have multiple single purpose ...
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Versioning an Application VS Versioning an Executable/Library
I'm trying to pass a point to my team whereas there are two different kind of "programs" we can serve : applications and executables/librairies.
An application in this sense is dependent on other ...
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Android application to RTL (Arabic)
I have an Android application (E-commerce) in English, Now I want to change language to Arabic and RTL(Right to Left)
I am new in that, where and how much efforts it take?
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Difference between MVC and ECS
Following reading Thomas Owens response (many thanks to him) on Is it reasonable to build applications (not games) using a component-entity-system architecture? and his explanation on what is ECS ...
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What defines a business rule, as opposed to application or presentation logic?
The way I explain it to myself is that a business rule is a requirement for a domain concept of an application.
One of the core tasks of my current app is to send notifications. Therefore I have a ...
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Why terminals only allow character-cell displays
In wondering about math fonts in the terminal, I started to realize that you can't really have pixel-perfect graphics in the terminal:
How to draw a single pixel in a terminal?
Terminal with image ...
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Is it ethical for an android application to check if its rival application is also installed by the user?
I was just going through a food delivery application's preferences file where I found that it had a boolean to check if the user has one of its rival's app installed or not. Is it ethical to do so on ...
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