I'm considering using postgreSQL 8.4x db on windows/Mac for development and linux for production. wondering what front-end tools are out there that are comparable to Toad (for Oracle) ? PostgreSQL comes with PgAdminIII. It's OK but I feel there might be something better than that. I prefer free or open source but if something is NOT too...
I'm dying to know how I can make a GUI for ffmpeg and jhead in OSX. I've been looking for a solution for a while and thought you, stackoverflow's users, could help me. Maybe you know some document I haven't come across of or, better, a tutorial to make a GUI. I love those two tools but I like the simplicity of drag/drop operations. Not...
Hi guys, I'm working on a Flash frontend for a Magento powered store. This frontend will be an alternative to the HTML shop so it will sit in a subdirectory and use the same Magento installation as the main HTML site. The Flash application will get the data from dynamic XML files. It needs to get almost everything as the HTML site (cat...
Hello. for my own education I am curious what compilers use which C++ front-end and backend. Can you enlighten me where the following technologies are used and what hallmarks/advantages they have if any? Open64 - is it backend, front-end, or both? Which compilers use it? I encounter it in cuda compiler. EDG - as far as I can tell thi...
Hey Stackoverflow, Yeah it's spring and a lot of things happens to me... Also changing some software things at my computer, because suddenly everything seems to be boring after starting my laptop. I even changed my wallpaper!!! Besides I'm looking for a new database frontend and after using google with several queries I didn't find t...
I am going to write a "file manager" which can be platform specific (windows) and i can choose between getting the data from COM object API or via REST API. The advise i need, is about which technology is the fastest learning and implementing for this kind of task? I hear a lot of buzzwords like GWT, Flex, Silverlight and others. Pers...
Does adding width and height to inline images increase the page load performance? <img id="moon" height="200" width="450" src="http://www.domain.com/moon.png" alt="moon image" /> Compare to this <img id="moon" src="http://www.domain.com/moon.png" alt="moon image" /> ...
I'm designing a web application. I was wondering if it was feasible to design a php front end (using some php framework e.g. CakePHP), which stores and retrieves data to display to the user. Then develop a java backend which listens to the database for changes, and depending on what was changed, performs some actions and updates the da...
I am doing everything on my own: front-end and back-end. I am proficient with HTML and CSS, but a noob in Ruby on Rails. Now that I want to develop the site, I wonder if I should start from front-end first, or back-end. Cos what I am doing for front-end now are all static. I am afraid that I have to change a lot of my front-end coding wh...
There are a lot of good interview questions (even "puzzles") for software developers here on SO, but I was wondering if anyone had some good questions for a front-end developer position. We're looking for someone who knows HTML+CSS+JS. Some of the obvious questions: Have you worked with javascript libraries? - follow-up: which, and wh...
I want to determine the default styles for various tag names. For example, I want to know what would be the default font-size of an h2. Is there a way to do that in Javascript ? The context : I am trying to build a live CSS editor that would let users play with the styling of the various elements on their page. For the initial configu...
I have four images, one of which has background repeat property in horizontal direction and three of which have background repeat in vertical direction. I have different CSS classes which currently uses this images as under: .sb_header_dropdown { background: url(images/shopping_dropdown_bg.gif) repeat-y top left; padding: 8...
I'm about to develop a small system to display dynamic information in public spaces across an entire building (similar to Flight Information Displays on an Airport). The system will have two main components: a back-office for managing the information displayed a front-end which acctually displays the information. The back-office com...
I have an button just as have Ask Question on SO and here is the CSS for it: .rfs .grey_btn{ float: right; margin: 15px 5px; } Now I have to add border shadow to it and I have tried border-radius and box-shadow but it does not give me proper result. Also other question is that I have a label or box say and now I want to increa...
I'm a front-end developer and really enjoy jQuery and JavaScript. I've built a lot a websites, done some good jQuery work and built a few JavaScript based applications and would really like to get in UI development. Or so I thought. I guessed it would be pretty similar to what I already do except maybe a little more JavaScript heavy bu...
Is there a blogpost or example on how to combine the ext-js grid with an odata datasource? I suspect it would require a custom datareader. ...
More of a general question here. At the moment a lot of the projects I work on utilize server-side views to render the user interface, and spruce it up with some JavaScript here and there. That is all fine and dandy for smaller projects, but lately it seems like the .js files are growing rather large in size, and the stacks upon stacks ...
I searched for a while but I couldn't find a question that exactly covered this topic. I'm looking for a web design book that covers both the design part and the front-end development part. What I mean by that is a book that teaches me about UI, color theory, typography, use of illustrations, etc (the design part) and also how best to wo...
I'm trying to understand GDB's MI interface in order to write a basic frontend for it, but there's one thing that's confusing me. According to the documentation, any output from the running target is prepended with "@", but when I run a program on my own, the output from the program being debugged is not prepended with anything. Is GNU s...
Hi, For most of you web developing guru's my question will sound stupid, but as newbie I would like to ask if it is ok that I will have a frontend developed and only after Backend? Also, if I will need database should I have the design of it first? I also would like to know about the analysis part of the project. A friend in short i...