Questions tagged [dynamic-data]

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Are there advantages to hard-coding data values into a program?

I'm a self-taught, novice-ish coder, so I apologize if I don't nail the programmer lingo. I'm working on a project in which I am providing data, which will be continually updated, to developers who will essentially create a tool to generate reports…
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How to : Nextag and such other dynamic data pulling website

Yesterday, I came across Nextag which is a website for comparing prices of various products from different retailers. Is this site automated? Can the process of data pulling from various sites can be automated for comparison with each other. I…
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What is the best way to create dynamically a DOM?

I know that there are plenty answers to this question on stackoverflow, but I can´t find one that give me an answer that can help me to solve a question that came out after read a lot of Javascript, JQuery articles and using those languages for…
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Creating objects with user-defined variable names

Context: I am making a learning project in XNA. What I would like to be able to do is allow the game to be moddable by allowing the users to place arbitrary values into a JSON data file which is read into the game. The thing is that I want to avoid…
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Display dynamic content from embedded web server

I have an embedded device running a slimmed down version of a HTTP server. Currently, it can display static HTML pages. Here is an example of how it displays a static HTML page: char *text="HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Type:…
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Project architecture for application with dynamic database

We've a project that has some tables are defined and some will be generated runtime, means dynamic and no pre-defined structure. We generally use Entity Framework to communicate to the database(in our case MS SQL). But for this kind of requirement,…
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Is a PHP array an example of a dynamic data structure?

I did my homework, and it says that dynamic data structures are "data structures that change in size as a program needs it to by allocating and de-allocating memory from the heap". So I was wondering, are PHP arrays examples of dynamic data…
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Software architecture for a dynamic reporting system

I have to create a reporting system based on hundreds of different tables in a database (which means a huge volume) and I'd like to know the best practices and/or your wild ideas about it. Here are the details: I have to generate many different…