GUI advice for a responsive touchscreen

I am tasked with building a piece of software that interfaces with a MySQL database, in order to allow the user to pick songs to play and que using a touch screen, and then they are shown simultaneously on a second monitor as videos.

Auto update for application hosted on multiple servers on cloud

I’m working on an application which will run on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. I wish to incorporate auto update feature for my application. The updater should update all the Ec2 instances. Also, there is a central server which governs the creation/termination of EC2 instances as per load. The central server creates a EC2 new instance from a pre-configured custom AMI (custom image which has our application pre-installed).

How to handle frequent ajax requests in shopping cart

Is it common and/or acceptable to have Ajax requests every time a button is clicked on a shopping cart page? This is not a high traffic site. It will only have a few users at a time, like 5 max. I’m calling it a shopping cart for lack of a better term. The site is intended to let customers create highly customized orders, which benefits from logic being on the server instead of on the client.

What is “toolkit design”?

What does “toolkit design” mean and what are the basic steps to design a toolkit for a specific task/project?

Pros and Cons of holding all the business logic in stored procedures in web application [duplicate]

This question already has an answer here: Database Application Design Best Practices [duplicate] (1 answer) Closed 11 years ago. In some organization I worked for web applications are developed basing all the business logic in Database stored procedures. For example, use html for view and servlet as controllers to divert the client request to appropriate […]

Software design by pseudocoding?

Do you know a good way to design (i.e. write down) software with a method based on pseudocode?

best practices for NoSQL database design

I have just started using a NoSQL document based database (MongoDB) and i’m curious about the best practices for designing databases.

How should common interfaces be shared across source control repositories?

I have code that represents the interface for a library that is used by a variety of internal clients. How should that interface code be exposed to these internal clients that live in different source control repositories?

What are the practical ways to implement the SRP?

Simply what are the practical techniques people use to check if a class violates the single responsibility principle?

Class design for internationalized object

I’m looking for some pointers on class design for a global application.