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Is it a proper design to have the same webserver to server both mobile clients as well as PCs. The main application will run on mobile which will login using web server and send and receive instructions and status to web server. PC log in is for allowing users to do their account administration purpose.
Will there be any issues in using a native non browser client (Android) talking to a web server?
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Yes, that's fine. In fact, for most sites you don't have to do anything at all to serve mobile clients. The browsers on most smart phones often use the same rendering engines as their desktop counterparts.
If you want to create a specific mobile experience, then that is best accomplished with mobile-specific stylesheets and possibly some mobile-specific javascript to tune some of the user interaction.
With regard to the design aspect, Mobile Web Development is a pretty good read.
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I am new to Heroku and playframework.
trying to create a project where i can update and read DB via android / ios app i am developing.
I would like to create some sort of service using play framework that when requested by android/ios app will update db (security here is important).
how do i create such service ? if answer is to complex is there a tutorial i can be flowered to ?
appreciate the help.
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I realize my question might be general/unfocused (due to my own lack of knowledge).
i will try to elaborate.
my purpose is to build an app for my kids kindergarten where the caretakers can update messages to parents in the website interface and the application will read these messages from the data base. i understand it is not recommended that an application read directly from DB but use a service. as my web site is built with playframework and hosted on heroku i was wondering how do i get this all to connect ?
Actually it's hard to guess what are you asking about...
I'd suggest to build JSON API with Play application which handles JSON requests, from your mobile apps. Quite simple case, however you ned to put some effort for planning.
Although we don't know much about your approach, most probably hmac signature for authentication will be good enough for this kind of job.
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Responsive web design (RWD) is good for admin side (control panel) of web design?
I have more entries and tables in my admin page. so RWD is good for admin development?
Also it is good for develop mobile application for admin forms?
If you know Responsive Web Design as 'Fluid and adaptive layouts with progressively enhancing features', then I think it's probably safe to say that yes, RWD is good for almost any web project. Be aware however, that building responsively is much more difficult and time consuming (read: expensive) and may not offer the necessary ROI that you need.
For example, consider that much backend software like cPanel and such are used by technically skilled people that understand how to resize their browser and work with less-than-polished software.
Also, when you think about cPanel, you must consider whether much of the utilities and functions it provides are efficient and useful in the mobile context - I doubt that sysadmins really want to do module installation or type large amounts of console code with an iPhone keyboard.
So when considering the merits of RWD for backend web software, be sure to weigh up your target audience, their skills and requirements, their equipment and what (and how) they will use the tools available to them to get things done.
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How does a web server and database server work together to provide the necessary services and information to the client's web browser?
Originally, I thought the database and the web server were one and the same (that is, I thought the database was on the web server); but apparently they're separate entities?
Your question is verrrrrry open ended, but I think you will find the following helpful. For this I will be using PHP and MySQL references, but there are many out there.
Your second question first: They are separate services that can, but don't have to be, on the same hardware. If you are on Linux, this is often referred to as the LAMP stack (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)
As far as the actual integration, this is done with SQL queries, that are run using PHP. The result of those queries is then parsed and formatted, also using PHP. That result is then passed to your web browser using HTML.
Like I said, very open ended, but this should give you somewhere to start.
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I have been working on a website with Google App Engine for the past few months and I haven't really had to worry about people adding new data or disrupting users when the site went down because I had very few users but I am now planning on rolling the website out to many people.
The site involves users posting topics and I generally when I am making changed on the site I need to have some database entries to work with. I was wondering what is the most professional and efficient way to develop a website while it is in production and not lose user data or downgrade the user experience all that much.
What would be ideal would be if I could split something like 10% of traffic off onto the new site that I am testing but I haven't found anything like this with GAE.
Have you seen traffic splitting? It allows you to send a percentage of your users to an alternative app version, E.g. testing.example.appspot.com
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What is difference between Google appEngine and other web-hostings such as tomcat hosting?
in other words, what is difference between paas and regular web-hosting? is web-hosting a paas or saas?
PaaS : Is Platform as a service : It means they provide what they provide - take it or leave it. GAE is an example of this. You can do whatever rules they set. You just concern yourself with application - not admin concerns like scaling, security ... .
Regular web hosting : essentially give you a *nix box for you to play with. You need to set it up, configure it and do the magic.
Regular web hosting can be virtual machines on the cloud like Rackspace, Amazon, Azure among others, or some guy renting you his machine in a basement, or something in between.