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Fb:Comments in FB:Dialog Question

Hello, I am currently experimenting having a FBML comment box within a FBML popup dialogbox. This is done within a FBML Profile Tab application. The code is something like this: <fb:dialog id="video_1" width="800" height="800"> <fb:dialog-title>Video 1</fb:dialog-title> <fb:dialog-content> <div style="overflow:auto;h...

Mobile Internet Development in .NET

Hi, What would be the best way to create at mobile website in .net. What I want is to create a website that switches to wml, xhtml, html etc based on the device that access the site or blocks the component if the device doesn't support it (images, flash etc). I've found the "Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit", which seems to do what ...

How to add site search function to website using XHTML/HTML?

I really want to learn how to make my own search engine for my site. I have the defined buttons and labels, but it doesn't search. I can't figure out the HTML or XHTML code for actually searching the site. This is the code I have so far: <p class="search"> <label>SEARCH</label> <input name="search" type="text" class="txt" /> ...

Updating entity fields in app engine development server

I recently tried updating a field in one of my entities on the app engine local dev server via the sdk console. It appeared to have updated just fine (a simple float). However, when I followed up with a query on the entity, I received an exception: "Items in the mSomeList list must all be Key instances". mSomeList is just another list ...

Libraries for developing NCPDP SCRIPT based systems (a standard for e-prescribing)

What are (based on experiences) best (commercial or open source) libraries for developing NCPDP-based systems? Background: NCPDP (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited, standards development organization. One of it's standards is the SCRIPT Standard for Electronic Prescribing, which allows...

Development Environment for Testing MySQL Replication

Is there an easy way to setup an environment on one machine (or a VM) with MySQL replication? I would like to put together a proof of concept of MySQL replication with one Master write instance and two slave instances for reads. I can see doing it across 2 or 3 VMs running on my computer, but that would really bog down my system. I'd ra...

amazon design doubt

I was looking at the amazon website and was wondering how one of the feature would have been implemented. The feature : what customers buy after viewing a particular item. If i were to develop such a feature i would probably generate a session id for each user session and store the session id-page id combination in a log file. and if a ...

iPhone. Open application during call

Is there any way to do this? In other words, is it possible during a call to allow the user to open a certain application? (for example, to provide information based on the person who is calling). If not, will something like this be available on iOS 4? ...

unit testing of installer

What is the best process where code is checkedin by developers, installer is created by build engineer and release to QA to test the installer. Should the installer be release to QA without unit testing by Dev. If dev do some changes then they should wait until QA to report bugs.Or if installer first given to dev for unit testing and on...

Why does asp.net wrap the page in a form?

I'm a PHP developer who has to work on ASP.net projects and I'm wondering why every page is wrapped in a form. This just doesn't make sense to me. Also What's with all the hidden input fields especially the "View State" one. ...

Does anyone experiencing freezing during iPhone app launching or closing?

App freezes, and the device freezes sometime during launching or closing. This happens especially to the app developed and installed using Xcode. Can anyone explain what's going on, if it's iOS 4 Gold Beta specific issue, or a generic task must be handled by a developer? ...

Mac OSX Programming for long time Linux geek

I've written software on Linux since 1995 but must get up to speed with app development on the Mac. I have no experience on that platform. Obviously I should get my hands on some appropriate hardware. What are good books, tutorial websites, and other resources for experienced devs getting started on Mac? Not just APIs and app inter...

Help to argue why to develop software on a physical computer rather than via a remote desktop

In my case we are required to be physically present at office when developing software. I am looking for help to argue for why software developers shall have a dedicated physical software development computer, to be productive and cost effective. As a business case we have argued that productivity will go down by 25%, however it's my fe...

How to specify the column width and text alignment of an HTML table using CSS?

Is it possible to specify the width of a table column in percentages using css? Also is it possible to specify the text alignment of a specific column? For example I have a table that has 3 columns. I would like to say col1.width = 20% col2.width = 40% col3.width = 40% col1.text-align = left; col2.text-align = right; col3.text-align ...

Which iPhone is best for application development, 2G OR 3G?

Hi Friends, I would like to test iPhone applications to test on device. I am in confusion on the version of iPhone which suits best for iPhone application development. Can anyOne of you suggest me, is 2G OR 3G better? Its Urgent.. Thank You. ...

How to get AppName() BlackBerry

Hi all! Please can anybody help me with my issue - is it possible to getApplicationName() in some way in Blackberry? Thunks in advance!!! ...

setScrollPosition(int position) blackberry

Hi all! Here is the cod: public class MyTextField extends MainScreen{ private RichTextField textField; private VerticalFieldManager manager; public MyTextField(); initUi(); } public void initUi(){ manager = new VerticalFieldManager(VerticalFieldManager.VERTICAL_SCROLL | ...

how can i add image from one scene file to another scene?

Hi. I have used cocos2d and i have 2 scene. in first scene i have one image and one menu button. if user will click on menu button then i am showing second scene with some options. now i want like if any user will click on any option in 2 scene then first scene should be come with new image. Can anyone say me how can i change it? i ha...

Can I use tmpfs in this way?

I have plenty of RAM on my development machine. Can I move my Rails' application sources to the tmpfs partition in order to gain performance boost because of in-memory storage which is order of magnitude faster than HDD? I understand that tmpfs is temporary storage by its nature BUT can I use it for this task if I'll write some script ...

What are the risks in using Rational Team Concert?

What are the risks in the use of the Rational Team Concert in software development? Thank you for your reply. ...