I would like to make a list of remarkable robot simulation environments including advantages and disadvantages of them. Some examples I know of are Webots and Player/Stage.
I currently have a web service built on WCF. It's still in its infancy, so, major changes are still possible. I've been thinking on porting it from WCF to a Java-based solution since I'd like to have a Linux-based backend. What would be the best way to accomplish this "conversion"? Any advantages WCF may have that Java lacks?
In my office we use exploded EAR's (and inside them exploded WAR directories) for our test environments, and then a packaged one for production. I've yet to find a good explanation of the reason behind this though. I understand it's easier from a deployment perspective to push out a single file during builds, but it prevents us from doing things like property file changes without doing complete rebuilds (we could skip the compiles, but our environment currently binds the compile and jar processes together).
What are the major advantages / disadvantages between these two configurations?
In my organization they are thinking about rolling out Eclipse company wide but I prefer using another editor (UltraEdit).
I do not have any good arguments against this except subjective opinions that a developer should get to use whatever he/she wants as long as he's productive enough. This to make the developer a happy employee :-)
Do you guys think its a good policy to force all developers in the same company to use the same IDE? Would there be any technical (dis)advantages of this decision?
I'm using Linq to SQL on an SQL Compact database. I have a function where I insert multiple records into the database. I only call SubmitChanges at the end of the function. Would using a transaction (using the TransactionScope class) bring me any more performance or advantages?
I would like to learn working with IMS, can somebody suggest me a good source? I'm not sure if it matters to say that I have quite good exposure and experience with INSYNC DB2 and QMF. So anything that can depict and explain the advantages and disadvantages over IMS would be really helpful. Thanks for your help beforehand..
Question anyone know of any success stories of Cassandra running on windows in a production environment? I'm doing some work on Cassandra and trying to find the correct platform for it currently the platform is windows running MS-SQLas the data store. what are the dis-advantages if any when running Cassandra on a windows environment.
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I am trying to break away from using tables in my formatting, and am trying out using userlist html tags <ul>
Say I have a panel with 10 controls, and I want a 3 columns display, therefore 3 controls in each row, and a total of 4 rows for 10 controls.
Should I use 4 different <ul> or should I just stack them inside one <ul>
Please tell me the advantages and disadvantages
Thanks
I plan to add a better search feature to my site, so I thought that I would write it in C and use the CGI as a means to access it. But it seems that Perl is the most popular language when it comes to CGI-based stuff. Why is that? Wouldn't it be faster programmed in C or machine code?
What advantages, if any, are there to writing it in a scripting language?
Thanks.
I'm not necessarily for Apple, but I am sort of against the need for 3rd party vendors, if a browser can accomplish the same task, efficiently.
What are the advantages of HTML5 over HTML4, will there be a new XHTML, and will HTML5 have any interactive features that may replace Flash?
I have seen source codes always having a typedef for a structure and using the same everywhere instead of using the structure name as "struct sname" etc directly?
What is the reason behind this? Are there any advantages in doing this?
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I want to konw whether the browser caching of css and javascript is automatic with php or v hv to do it manually with code..
and wt are the advantages if i manually cache the css and js files to client browser.. using code..
??
If not cache wt will happened ??
I have read alot about Software Transactional Memory, especially in relaiton to Haskell but I am trying to figure how it is different from database transactions? Are there some advantages I do not understand with STM?
When I look at ASP.NET MVC projects I everytime see loose coupled architecture.
For what do I need a loose coupling in a web architecture (if I do not make unit tests)?
What are advantages and disadvantages of this?
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Can anyone please provide specific links which cite the advantages of RPC over other inter process communication models.
Also whether RPC is best suited for TCP/IP or HTML or similar other transfer mediums.
Thanks and in advance.
I would like to learn working with IMS, can somebody suggest me a good source? I'm not sure if it matters to say that I have quite good exposure and experience with INSYNC DB2 and QMF. So anything that can depict and explain the advantages and disadvantages over IMS would be really helpful. Thanks for your help beforehand..
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Could anyone specify what is the need and use of the Document Type Definition in HTML pages. What is the advantages of it? I searched through the Net and found the results to be little bit confusing. Please someone highlight
Suppose a service written with RoR starts to use AWS S3 to store some data. What is the best library to use for working with AWS S3? Currently the main two alternatives for me are:
RightScale AWS Ruby gems
http://github.com/rightscale/right_aws
AWS::s3 http://amazon.rubyforge.org/
What are their main advantages and disadvantages? What if later service will need to use other AWS (like EC2)? What other gems do you use and why?
Thanks!
There are basically those two approaches to designing a system. What are the advantages and disadvantages? When should I use which? Should I combine those approaches? How?
I know that I've seen this site before, but cannot remember it for the life of me. Basically, it is a listing of commonly used gems, like XML parsing or ORM libraries. For the ORM case, it lists ActiveRecord, DataMapper, and the like, stating the advantages and disadvantages of each. Does anyone know what this site is? I've googled and have not been able to find it.
As I am familiar with some synthesizers, I often user real life circular sliders (e.g. to control the master volume), also called knobs. Like this one:
Sometimes I also find these controls in virtual applications (yes I like extreme minimalism =P):
But most of them are irritating, confusing or just wrong, and simple sliders could be used instead, making the UI much better. What are the advantages of circular sliders like the one in the screenshot above? And when do you use them? Thanks
I am building an application which has multiple user entry screens. I would like to know if there are advantages/disadvantages of using wpf popups rather than modal windows?
I am using mvvm-light.
I have noticed that popups are being used extensively in touch applications (eg iPad).
There was an article here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Ee817667%28pandp.10%29.aspx
The first part of tut implemented this pattern with abstract classes. The second part shows an example with Interface class. But nothing in this article discusses why this pattern would rather use abstract or interface.
So what explanation (advantages of one over the other) would you give ? Not in general but for this precise pattern.
I'm wondering whether anyone here has ever used a skip list. It looks to have roughly the same advantages as a balanced binary tree, but is simpler to implement. If you have, did you write your own, or use a pre-written library (and if so, what was its name)?