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The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication

Form Based Authentication For Websites Please help us create the definitive resource for this topic. We believe that stackoverflow should not just be a resource for very specific technical questions, but also for general guidelines on how to solve variations on common problems. "Form Based Authentication For Websites" should be a fine t...

How does database indexing work?

Given that indexing is so important as your dataset increases in size, can someone explain how indexing works at a database agnostic level? For information on queries to index a field, check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156/how-do-i-index-a-database-field...

What is the single best article on the web for programmers?

In the spirit of Best of RSS , podcasts , books I ask you : What is the single best online article every programmer must read. The older the better (timeless factor) . I will kick off the discussion with some of my favorites in the answers so you can vote for them independently of the question. As Joel suggested in the last podcast ple...

How do I make a component in Joomla display as an article?

More specifically I am trying to make the mailto component show within my template; the same way as an article does. By default the mailto component opens in a new window. So far I changed the code so it opens on the same window, but that way the whole template is gone. Any suggestions? ...

What books or articles would you recommend about SMS and PHP?

Are there any good comprehensive PHP programming books or articles/tutorials out there that I can learn about how to integrate SMS communications with my PHP application? I've done a Google search and found some information scattered about the web but I need a comprehensive resource. I want to learn everything I can about how a PHP appl...

Customizing a TListBox to resemble an Outlook list

Hey all, Please down vote me if this is not appropriate, but I'm desperate to the point of pulling my hair out looking for this link. This is really a last resort. Recently I browsed to a blog (at least I think it was) that had a very detailed description on how to modify a TListBox to have a multi-line look resembling some of the entr...

Where to find Paint.NET multithreading white paper?

Like I wrote elsewhere, I seem to be sure that a white paper by Rick Brewster about multithreading used in Paint.NET once existed. I am not able to find any reference to this white paper again however. Does it (still) exist? And if so, where? EDIT: Found out in comments to an unrelated question that Paint.NET is still free, but code is...

Unable to put Joomla articles open at a right URL

Problem: My articles have the right urls: for example, newsite.com/article. However, by clicking an article I get an empty article. I can see my sidebar. I moved my Joomla installation to a different folder in my server. I want to change my domain from OldSite.com to NewSite.com. I am not sure whether I need to change the database or n...

Article Versioning / History

Hello there, Every now and then I find web applications that have some sort of article history/versioning where you can select a previous version of the article/content and basically do a "restore" process. I'm planning on having one like that, but I have a few things in my mind and I would like to get your opinions. 1) Should an autos...

Basic concept in the following WCF article

Hello everyone, I am a bit confused with this paticular blog post here... http://bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2006/09/13/4417.aspx What is his concept of tunelling? I mean how is he able to access port 110 on WCF client through HTTP from the WCF server? I don't get that part. Thanks. Edit : I understand the fact that he's creati...

How to write articles about software applications. Where to find free examples?

A lot of you have starting to write programs since college or even earlier. When you were on university the level of professionalism increased. If you have to write an article about your software application how do you do it? I'm not talking about a documentation or help manual. I'm talking about an article/paper for academia world. ...

Accessing the Address Book in iPhone OS

Hi Everyone: I'm wondering if someone could direct me to an article that explains how to access the address book contacts in the form that Address Book on the desktop can read. Thanks for any help! ...

Roster Mangment Syatem

What is Roster Managment System? ...

How can I keep one specific article always on top on the front page?

On my joomla website, I'd like to have a "about our company" article always be the first article on the front page. I want the other articles to shift down in position as new articles are added, but to keep the "about our company" one constantly on top. I tried setting the order of that article on the front page manager to -1, but it sti...

<section> or <article>, which is contained in which

Trying to get my head around the new semantic elements in HTML5. Does a <section> belong inside an <article> or is it the other way around? Does it even matter? I'm looking at structuring a wordpress blog something like this: Is this reasonable, or am I missing something? ...

How to make article spinner regex?

Let's say I have teh following: {{Hello|Hi|Hey} {world|earth} | {Goodbye|farewell} {noobs|n3wbz|n00blets}} And I want that to turn into any of the following: Hello world Goodbye noobs Hi earth farewell n3wbz // etc. Paying attention to the way the "spinning" syntax is nested. It could be nested a billion layers deep for al...

news posts: put them in a .tag file or database

I'm thinking about making a simple web application to practice custom tags, EL, ... Now I'm thinking about how to make a simple front page. I want to have a front page where I'll show a short description of a post and then the user can click it to see the full article. Further down the line I'd like to attach a poster to it, and even fu...

How do you put a period after the section number using the article class?

I am using the article class with the code: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} \section{Foo} This is an example of foo. \section{Bar} This is an example of bar. \end{document} This produces: 1 Foo 2 Bar What I want is a period after the section number: Foo Bar I cannot change away from the article class. How w...

Article not following site's layout (Joomla)

Hello, please go to www.espacioasir.com first and notice how the second article has been 'crushed' to the left - half of the article's normal width. Anyway, I don't think I can explain much more, my question is very clear: Why is this happening? I do want mention that the content of the article itself has nothing to do (or maybe just a ...

Custom template in joomla. Install Joomla to an existing site.

I need some help with integrating Joomla to an existing site. The existing site is made of several .php files which shows static text. I have copied all css and js files to a new template in Joomla and the design seems to work pretty well. I want to make an article in Joomla for each .php file in the old site containing their 'news'. ...