System that splits passwords across two servers

I stumbled upon this news article on BBC,

Taking a Projects Development to the Next Level [closed]

Closed 9 years ago.

PHP – Data Access Layer

I am currently reviewing a code base and noticed that a majority of the calls (along with DB connections) are just buried inside the PHP scripts. I would have assumed that like other languages they would have developed some sort of data access layer (Like I would do in .Net or Java) for all of the communication to the DB (or implemented MVC, etc). Is this still a common pattern in PHP or is there alternative methodologies/patterns for this technology? I am just trying to understand why the subs would have developed it this way.

Designing a Database Application with OOP

I often develop SQL database applications using Linq, and my methodology is to build model classes to represent each table, and each table that needs inserting or updating gets a Save() method (which either does an InsertOnSubmit() or SubmitChanges(), depending on the state of the object). Often, when I need to represent a collection of records, I’ll create a class that inherits from a List-like object of the atomic class.

How should I architect my Model and Data Access layer objects in my website?

I’ve been tasked with designing Data layer for a website at work, and I am very interested in architecture of code for the best flexibility, maintainability and readability.

Persisting natural language processing parsed data

I’ve recently started experimenting with natural language processing (NLP) using Stanford’s CoreNLP, and I’m wondering what are some of the standard ways to store NLP parsed data for something like a text mining application?

Why to use web services instead of direct access to a relational database for an android app?

I searched on the web how to access in an efficient manner to a central database at a remote location and I met suggestions to use web services instead direct access (i.e. JDBC etc ) to a database.I wonder the reason of that and any other suggestions.

Creating a layer of abstraction over the ORM layer

I believe that if you have your repositories use an ORM that it’s already enough abstracted from the database.

Best approach for saving highlighted areas on geographical map

I am designing an application that allow users to highlight areas of a geographical map using a tool that is like brush or a pen. The tool basically draw a circle with a single click and continue drawing those circles with mouse move.

Silverlight, one database per user

I have a Silverlight application with WCF and entity framework.