I have a customer who runs an event ticket sales site. The site uses several APIs that interface with ticket sales companies. Users view ticket/seat availability for a specific event in the form of a Google Map that plots seat availaiblity on the venue image for the event.
The site was written using ASP.NET 3.5 and deployed to the customer's server without source code. Some changes were made by a previous developer by de-compiliing the existing DLL and making subsequent changes. Thus, the original source code is not usable and not available.
My customer is interested in URL routing as an enhancment and use of "friendly" URLs instead of the long query string for each event.
What are some good benefits of using ASP.NET MVC2 for the redevelopment of the site? Besides URL Routing, what other improvements can we site in a non-technical way?
Thanks much for your help!!
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx
Key Point In My Opinion:
It will enable you to easily maintain separation of concerns in your applications, as well as facilitate clean testing and TDD.
Hi you can read all in this article http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/archive/2008/07/09/asp-net-mvc-vs-asp-net-web-form.aspx
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I'm trying to build an API which can be used to update some master data in my app. It contains various drop-downs for city, country etc. Whenever I add new data in these drop-downs, I need the apps to hit this API once a day and get the latest data. Also, if the API is requested older data (from older apps), it should be able to return such data based on some date query parameter.
What's the best way to create such an API?
Also, the API needs to be RESTful and will be exposed to Android/iOS environments.
API should be able to return so based on some date query parameter.
You can use two columns created_at and updated_at in you tables schema. So how can this will useful for your situation:
Whenever some one hitting api without date parameter, you are return all data which are created before current time.
Whenever some one hitting api with date parameter then you can return data which are created before value of date parameter.
Obviously you have to write complete logic for this at server side
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Please explore one of the Mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS) products for your long term needs.
Here are some players:
BaasBox: Open source backend
Backendless: Allows
developers to have an instant backend without writing server-side
code.
Apigee App Services: provides a lot of free storage, push notification, analytics etc.
Appcelerator: An BaaS targeted at the Enterprise audience.
For the short run you may want to try https://www.webscript.io/ to embed some quick javascript code to return the JSON response for you.
I would put a spin on #Santanu's suggestion of using BaaS. I would recommend using a BaaS during the development phase of your project.
When the iPhone and Android Apps have been developed and tested, replace the Baas-based server components with a in-house built RESTful server.
This approach has a couple of benefits. It lets you divide the effort into two distinct parts: the client changes to your product, and the building of your server component.
I assume your company's current expertise lies in App development, so it should be easier for you all to upgrade your applications to use the BaaS-based APIs.
It will also be much easier to reiterate and refine your data components and models using a mature BaaS server.
With Apps using data requests to populate the drop-downs from a BaaS-based RESTful API, and stable working data models and data sets hosted in the BaaS servers, it will be much faster to start building your own RESTful service.
When you run into issues, you will be confident they are in the server side code. You can run A/B tests with the same Apps against two versions of the server and ensure the client experience is the same.
You could continue to use the BaaS Server for rapid prototyping and developing API extensions.
I have a magento ecommerce web application want to sync my data from magento to salesforce and vice versa
I thought this would be as simple as collecting their salesforce.com credentials to open a connection to salesforce.com and pull down their customer,product and contact.
But it does not look that easy! For one, I cannot find a global API. Apparently, each salesforce.com company has to "generate" their own WSDLs .Don’t have much idea on rest api, where I don’t have to generate wsdl for each different company.
I have done lots of research on this could not find any proper solution Most of the vendors are using soap api where I need to follow same process that is every time I need to generate WSDLs for each company…
Each company is different that's why you need to generate a different structure.
I would recommend this solution: https://products.crunchyconsulting.com/crunchy-products/crunchy-magforce.html with some customizations available if you ask for it.
There are a ton of online CMS services out there. And a ton of (new) backend-as-a-service products too. But I can't seem to find what I am looking for.
I am building an app for a client. The app contains data about shops, products, and more. The client must be able to update this data (and not just one person: each shop manager needs to be able to log in and edit the data for their own shop). And of course the app must be able to access this data.
Client edits data online
This has to be extremely user-friendly and completely online. I don't want to sell my client something where they need to install stuff on their server. I don't want to sell them something that's accessible online but looks like phpMyAdmin.
I want a shop owner to be able to go to a webpage, log in, and then see a pretty UI where they can edit the data for their shop. The back-end needs to have a pretty front-end that's auto-generated for whatever data this particular shop owner is allowed to edit.
So there are two bits: storing data in the cloud in such a way that it can be accessed by the app (which I am building with Titanium), and allowing the client to log into the backend and edit the data in a non-tech, user-friendly way.
Here's a list of things I tried...
Backend-as-a-service
Services with a great back-end, but without easy auto-generated data editing website:
Appcelerator (Titanium) Cloud Service
Amazon EC2
Stackmob
BackBeam
WebVanta
Parse
API o Mat
ShepHertz Cloud42
Kii
Online CMS
Services that provide a nice way for clients to edit data, but no easy way for apps to connect:
CloudCMS
(and many others I'm sure)
It's insane that no-one seems to be providing the cross-breed of BaaS and online CMS. So many people are building apps for clients, and so many clients are not tech-savvy and are reluctant to get a special server and host database software they don't understand. Why does this not exist? What am I missing?
With apiOmat it's easy to create your own data-editing app for e.g. with JavaScript SDK and HTML. Or you send a feature request so that they build a module for your preferred CMS.
As you mentioned, Cloud CMS is a really good option (disclaimer: I'm one of the founders). The product provides an enterprise content management backend and an API that lets you plug in some really powerful features right into your mobile apps.
This month, we released a brand new user interface which provides much of what you're asking about. Instant forms, document libraries, search and workflow all in one place.
You can check out Cloud CMS here: http://www.cloudcms.com
I completely agree with your assessment particularly with respect to the last mile (getting the final app built). It's kind of the wild west out there and the strong technologies are still proving out.
You mentioned Titanium - that's a good choice. I also quite like the Ionic Framework (http://www.drifty.com/). It's a step in the right direction.
My team has a rather large web application that was built with the Zend Framework, which has become mission-critical to our organization in the past year. It was built as part of an existing ZF corporate web site that no longer meets our needs.
The ZF app has its own users table in a database. It also uses Zend_Acl, and some database tables, to control access to modules, and to individual records. The records largely pertain to people in the system.
Thanks to new business needs, we're now faced with building a new public web site in Joomla. So, we need: (1) to keep running the old system, in some capacity, and (2) a shiny new Joomla site, (3) integration between the two.
-We can't move custody of the users away from our legacy system, because the people those users represent are elemental to the legacy system's purpose.
-We need the usernames and passwords to be the same, and work the same (we have a 60 day reset policy, our usernames aren't fixed values / are a bit convoluted)
-I looked at Zend_Ldap hoping I could expose our users to Joomla that way, but it seems to be just an LDAP client, and I'm not sure implementing an Ldap server in Zend that uses our existing tables is a good use of time. An extension that replaces Joomla's authentication would probably be wiser.
-Can our ACL control Joomla or should we have two ACLs exist in parallel.
-Do we write SOAP services in the Zend app to expose the data to the extension, or do we just give database credentials to the Joomla extensions directly.
A pretty broad question, I know, but I am only looking for broad answers: how would you tackle this?
Thanks!
The first step sounds like integrating the Auth system across Joomla! and your ZF app from there you can direct link to the ZF App's pages for logged in users. I would recommend the use of JFusion to integrate the Joomla! authorisation process and match the ACL groups across the two systems. You will have to write your own plugin for JFusion but that will be very simple compared to porting your entire app to a Joomla! extension. JFusion's GitHub repo is here.
Given the data provided you will need to run the ZF App as the master for authentication and sync user data to Joomla! via your custom plugin.
Once you have your plugin doing the authentication you can use JFusion's direct link mode to link to the ZF App as user that login to Joomla! will be automatically logged into the ZF app (and vice versa).
I want to build a website that displays data from an external databases. The data must be displayed in the form of charts, because charts are more expressive. I've never developed any websites yet, can anyone give me some advice about existing web frameworks and what are the advantages and disadvantages of them?
Which framework should I choose? The data are stored in an SQL Server. Because new data report types might be required in the future, the framework must be easy to modify and expand.
This is purely subjective and there are many answers to this. With that said I'll tell you what I'd use:
You mentioned that your database is using SQL Server. I'll assume that you'll want to host your website on a windows server for sake of argument. Given that, I'd choose either ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC given that they are natural picks for a windows server hosting websites on IIS. Then I'd find myself a nice jQuery charting plugin see this SO question.