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Current physical -> current logical -> new logical -> new physical.

Sounds like you're at the "new logical" phase.

You can now do a proper "logical" design at this point (DFD's; ERD's; data dictionary; EPC's; UML; pseudo-code; etc.); or go "agile" and just start programming.

"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal

Brady Kelly wrote:
I have a business spec in terms of user stories together with additional validation rules etc. per story.

So you have a description of what the system, the entire system, will do.

Brady Kelly wrote:
I think my spec, which should be divided into front and back-end, for two teams of developers, will be quite large on the basic makeup of the app

You have a description of what it will do. You do not have a description of how it will do it.

Those are two different things.

And a "large" system should start with one or more architecture documents so there is some framework for understanding how the pieces will fit together. That plus some more specific designs will also provide direction on how front and back end work is divided. If there are pieces that cannot be quickly white boarded or where there are arguments about the 'best' way to do it, then it needs to be designed.

what is difference between test case and test scenario?Have any Real time Testing Documents please send my email id
anandroy1995@gmail.com

Test Case: Too lazy to use Google
Scenario: Case in point

"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal

Folks, Could you please help to get resource to learn Design Pattern using C#?

Try doing some research Google search

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Yes google search is the best option.

design patterns videos - Google Search[^]

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Hello,

I'm an architecture student and our master asked me to make a concept sign that shows Stephen hawking thoughts !
I'm very confused, couldn't reach a concept so far

Like we have Statue of Liberty as a sign of freedom right ?
So I want something like that which shows Stephen hawking thoughts !
Can you guys help me and give me a simple and creative concept so I can make an architectural model

Thank you very much I'll look forward to your replies

Black holes. Worm holes.

"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal

Architecture of his thoughts? Well, the four major urges will still be determining his being. Untill a professor steals his browser-history we will not know wheter he thinks as often about sex as the average man.

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Foxxx F wrote:
our master asked me

And how is someone else giving you the conceptual idea going to help you going to fit that criteria.

I do think you are safe asking this question on a geek site, an architecture professor is unlikely to be browsing the forums Laugh | :laugh:

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Hi, I'm looking for a classic and simple N-Tier design using earlier .NET architecture rather than MVC. I haven't done this for years.

I was thinking of having a class with my table structure in terms of the properties/fields. Then maybe having a separate DAL class for the methods such as Read, Save, Update and Delete. In terms of the class design, if I have several tables using the same methods, is there a particular design I should follow.

I realise there are many ways of achieving this but I'm looking for something simple that junior developers can follow easily. Can somebody please recommend or maybe offer a link to a good article for this? Thanks

I need to design a system where I need to check if a key exists or not.
Currently I am already using aerospike for the cause but my use case is slightly different.

I will have a key like this ( A group of 3 integers)
<clientid>-<campaignid>-<userid>

For eg.
1-105-1133441
222-1000-1891893

I just need to know if this key exists or not in the set.
If exists return 1 else set the key and return 0. So that next time the query will return 1

This has to be a tcp service because the checks/set will happen from multiple servers

The point is if a campaign is live the queries will be very dense ( upto 20k/s ). So the key lookup has to be in memory. But after that I still have to retain the set but it has to be on disk , so that memory can be freed up for other campaigns. I do not expect more that 20-30 campaigns to be live.

Whenever the next time an old campaign gets a query again , the server should bring it back to memory and serve the requests from memory. The first query will be slow because it has to kickoff a read from disk but next query onwards will be very fast.

I am using aerospike for now , but there is a problem that aeorspike stores all keys in memory. When it is practically useless to have old campaigns in memory unless they get triggered again

The total number of keys is practially unlimited. But let us consider 50 million keys per campaign and I may need to store 100k campaign data. Of which only < 50 will be live at any given point of time.

Any ideas how I can implement this

So what should I use for this

A 16GB machine can keep 50 campaigns completely in memory. Transfering compressed keys from files to memory is not an issue. Paging will handle any extras.

"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal

i apologize if this is not the right forum.

We are looking to have 2 programs developed that will auto generate the following 2 puzzle types:
1. Word Search Puzzle -
* auto-generate a word-search puzzle (without curse words embedded),
* based on a list of words (up to 30 words)
* 15 letters across x 15 letters down
* words at least 3-letters in length
* answer key

2. Crossword Puzzle -
* auto-generate a crossword puzzle (without curse words embedded),
* based on a list of clues(approx 60-70 clues up + 60-70 clues down)
* words at least 3-letters in length
* answer key

Not only is this not the right forum, it's not the right site. If you are looking for someone to write code for you, try rentacoder.

This space for rent

When you get stuck on a specific part of the code then come back and ask and we'll gladly help you through it; but no, no one is going to write all this code for you.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Hello all,
I have just moved from Windows environment to Linux, and have been asked to update a project - still learning but tips would be helpful!
I have a directory structure:

RootMakefile.mk
.
.--\GUI1 (Folder)
. |
--dataprep(Folder)
. ---makefile1.mk
--config(Folder)
.--\GUI2 (Folder)
. |
--dataprep(Folder)
....makefile2.mk
--config(Folder)
.
.---\GUI(n) (Folder)
|
--dataprep(Folder)
....makefile(n).mk
--config(Folder)

makefile1.mk...makefile(n).mk are similar with just the variables within changing the paths, and the task is to move all makefiles to the root so they don't need to updated each time a new GUI is added to the project.

I changed the root makefile as following:

GUI_PATH := $(wildcard GUI*/)
TARGET_FILE := GuiDetails.rb
ACTIVE_GUIS := $(filter %, $(wildcard SMA*/$(TARGET_FILE)))
GUIS_OF_INTEREST := $(filter %, $(dir $(ACTIVE_GUIS)))
DATAPREP_FOLDER := dataprep
CONFIG_FOLDER := config
DATAPREP_PATHS := $(foreach GUIS_OF_INTEREST,$(GUIS_OF_INTEREST), $(GUIS_OF_INTEREST)$(DATAPREP_FOLDER))
CONFIG_PATHS := $(foreach GUIS_OF_INTEREST,$(GUIS_OF_INTEREST), $(GUIS_OF_INTEREST)$(CONFIG_FOLDER))

Now I seem to have all the folders that containing the Target file and so the makefile(1)...makefile(n), tried this to make sure:
test:

$(warning The following paths have guis $(GUIS_OF_INTEREST))
$(warning The following gui paths have dataprep $(foreach GUIS_OF_INTEREST, $(GUIS_OF_INTEREST), $(GUIS_OF_INTEREST)$(DATAPREP_FOLDER)))
$(warning The following gui paths have config $(foreach GUIS_OF_INTEREST, $(GUIS_OF_INTEREST), $(GUIS_OF_INTEREST)$(CONFIG_FOLDER)))

Is there a way now to move the makefiles within the folders to the root, and change the path variables dynamically so the guis can be generated for all different folders from a single makefile?

examples are:

(Within .\GUI1):
$(call DEF_RULES,GUI1,nodll)
$(call INCL,dataprep)

(Within .\GUI1\dataprep\):

GUI1_ALL:=$(call CANONICAL_PATH,$(GUI1_CONFIG)/GUI1_generated.txt)
GUI1_GWM:=$(call CANONICAL_PATH,$(GUI1_CONFIG)/gwm.xml)
GUI1_SSH:=$(call CANONICAL_PATH,$(GUI1_CONFIG)/ssh.xml)
GUI1_SSH_SUB:=$(call CANONICAL_PATH,$(GUI1_CONFIG)/ssh_sub.xml)
GUI1_SSH_APPROACH:=$(call CANONICAL_PATH,$(GUI1_CONFIG)/ssh_approach.xml)

This would be helpful as new GUIs are added and all the variables in the nested makefile don't have to updated with the new GUI path. The number of GUIs will increase as the project progresses.

Thanks in advance! I know this might sound really novice, but this is the first time I have had to use makefile and really would appreciate the help!

Please don't cross post. You have already posted a question in QA - Search similiar makefiles and update makefile variables based on path[^]
Pick a forum and stick to it.

Thanks! It was not my intention, the original post was sent to the spam folder:

Your message 'Make a general makefile at root to search subdirectories and pick the path variables' has been marked as potentially being spam and is currently in the moderation queue pending approval.

That's why I reposted it.

It hadn't "gone to the spam folder" - it was in a queue to be reviewed. I think it was me that actually cleared it to be posted. Just be patient ... we're all volunteers here. Don't take it personally by the way ... we have been hit very hard with spam in the past and the filters are still learning... which is why there is always a human asked to check Smile | :)

Thanks CHill60! Appreciate the effort! Smile | :)

Will keep in mind to wait before reposting!

We used TFS 2015 in our company. There were many branches in our project and we made separate build definition for every branch. So, we had quite a large number of build definitions. It was not good and we made one build definition for several branches. We could specify which branch to work with when starting a build.
For downloading source files we used "DownloadFiles" activity from:
clr-namespace:Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.Activities;assembly=Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow

It worked fine. Until we moved to TFS 2017.
Downloading files began taking twice as much time from that moment. If it had taken 10 minutes before it began to take 20 minutes then.

Build definitions which continue to use "TfsBuild" activity work fine and quickly. Although "DownloadFiles" and "TfsBuild" have the same internal logic for downloading files. Only "DownloadFiles" activity works slowly. Nothing changed in build definitions. Only TFS version.

Any ideas what can be the reason of downloading files running slowly?
Thanks.

Hi! Sorry for a simple question but I know nothing and have to create a table that I will put on my site in wordpress. I don't want a simple table like from excel. is there any good tool? I read somewhere that coding is needed but I know nothing about coding. thank you for your help.