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Context I have a multi-tiered architecture that contains 2 presentation layers, one business layer and one data layer. See image below for a visualisation. Here you can see that there are two ...
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I'm maintaining a library written in C++, which offers modern-C++ bindings for another API that's C-ish (it's this one, although I'm trying to make this question somewhat more general). Now, when I ...
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I manage a library that is made of multiple components, there is some dependencies between some of these components, for example I have a core library for common code base that is referenced by other ...
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I'm looking for some sort of standardisation, in a similar vein as POSIX for compatibility and familiarity between different commandline-interfaces, but for error reporting. Notably, I'm looking for: ...
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I have a bunch of PHP 5.6 code that I would like to get up to 7.2. My biggest concern was the change that causes an error when you call a function without enough parameters. Previously, this was a ...
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I've been reading up on API versioning for REST APIs. Most of the articles I've come across (here's an example) seem to focus on two options: URI based versioning, e.g. v1/my_resource/ Media Type ...
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We do have several Components in our product which are Component A Component B Component C Dependencies are (if unmet the system fails): A <-> B B <-> C We are currently creating a build ...
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I am working on an implementation for an existing public API. Now I needed to change the implementation to throw an exception for a failure condition about which previously the API consumer was not ...
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So, I’ve written some fairly big code for CentOS 7.1. The code essentially makes use of different command line tools by parsing the text output and shoving it in a database… pretty straight forward. ...
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I've seen some programmers doing the following : File file = new File("folder\\subfolder\\subsubfolder"); And I find it totally wrong because of compatibility issues with a different OS than Windows....
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I know that programs that are built on one OS won't work on another, like a Windows program on a Linux distribution, and that there are programs that translate those system calls into system calls ...
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I'm working in a software development team as software developer. I've been working on the same project for three years now. The software is a 32-bit desktop based C# application in .NET 4. Our target ...
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I am currently doing some research for a project. The setup is simple, I have a computer running a service in my home network and any device connected to that same network should be able to discover ...
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I found an apparent contradiction in the c++ text having to do with the result of the c_str() function operating on std:strings (in my copy, the definition and contradiction are on p1040). First it ...
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I was recently told that using Enum: public enum TaskEndState { Error, Completed, Running } may have compatibility/serialization issues, and thus sometimes it's better to use const string: public ...
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