Django view points to a function, which can be a problem if you want to change only a bit of functionality. Yes, I could have million keyword arguments and even more if statements in the function, but I was thinking more of an object oriented approach. For example, I have a page that displays a user. This page is very similar to page th...
Are there any favorite online references or good introductory and intermediate/advanced books on this topic that you'd recommend? The backstory is that I'm working on a web development project that is "re-skinning" our existing web site to make it more usable and visually appealing given current technologies that either weren't availabl...
Checkboxes in html forms don't have implicit labels with them. Adding an explicit label (some text) next to it doesn't toggle the checkbox....
I'd like to get some statistics on how many people coming to my site have set their browser to block ads. Any tips on the best way to do this?...
A quick glance at the present-day internet would seem to indicate that Adobe Flash is the obvious choice for embedding video in a web page. Is this accurate, or are they other effective choices? Does the choice of ASP.NET as a platform influence this decision?...
Should be available to non-U.S. companies, easy to setup, reliable, cheap, customizable, etc. What are your experiences?...
Any good recommendations for a platform agnostic (i.e. Javascript) grid control/plugin that will accept pasted Excel data and can emit Excel-compliant clipboard data during a Copy? I believe Excel data is formatted as CSV during "normal" clipboard operations....
I've used a WordPress blog and a Screwturn Wiki (at two separate jobs) to store private, company-specific KB info, but I'm looking for something that was created to be a knowledge base. Specifically, I'd like to see: Free/low cost Simple method for users to subscribe to KB (or just sections) to get updates Ability to do page versionin...
I have been using django a great deal lately and would like to find a home to host my apps. What is the best django web host? (Official django support preferred) Which service has the lowest price (without a long contract)?...
I would like to make a nightly cron job that fetches my stackoverflow page and diffs it from the previous day's page, so I can see a change summary of my questions, answers, ranking, etc. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the right set of cookies, etc, to make this work. Any ideas? Also, when the beta is finished, will my status page be a...
Occasionally, I've come across a webpage that tries to pop open a new window (for user input, or something important), but the popup blocker prevents this from happening. What methods can the calling window use to make sure the new window launched properly?...
What is the best unobtrusive CAPTCHA for web forms? One that does not involve a UI, rather a non-UI Turing test. I have seen a simple example of a non UI CAPTCHA like the Nobot control from Microsoft. I am looking for a CAPTCHA that does not ask the user any question in any form. No riddles, no what's in this image. ...
We recently discovered that the Google Maps API does not play nicely with SSL. Fair enough, but what are some options for overcoming this that others have used effectively? Will the Maps API work over SSL (HTTPS)? At this time, the Maps API is not available over a secure (SSL) connection. If you are running the Maps API o...
I've been doing ASP.NET development for a little while now, and I've used both the GridView and the DataGrid controls before for various things, but I never could find a really good reason to use one or the other. I'd like to know: What is the difference between these 2 ASP.NET controls? What are the advantages or disadvantages of both?...
A researcher has created a small simulation in MATLAB, and we want to make it accessible to others. My plan is to take the simulation, clean up a few things, and turn it into a set of functions. Then, I plan to compile it into a C library and use SWIG to create a Python wrapper. At that point, I should be able to call the simulation from...
The title says it all. All I really want is the equivalent of PHP's $_POST[], and after searching the web for an hour, I'm still nowhere closer....
It seems like drag and drop upload widgets disappeared from the face of Web 2.0. The last one of these I remember using was an activex widget, and inability of using it in anything other than IE doomed it. Have you used or seen one of these recently?...
I'm looking for good suggestions on how to implement version and source control for web projects. I've looked into subversion, but it seems to only take care of code. I'm really looking for something that can do good version-ing, branching, archival, etc. with not only source code, but other web assets like art files, movie clips, and ...
I've got a website that I've just uploaded onto the interwebs, and it's displaying differently using Firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu and WinXP. Two things I've noticed on Ubuntu: The favicon is missing The background color isn't displaying (it's set in the stylesheet) What have I done wrong? The CSS file is being fetched under Ubuntu, so ...
As most Web developers know, IE6 is a pain to support when it comes to making a website look and feel just as in the other major browsers (Firefox and IE7). I'd like to know what are the feelings of other developers toward supporting IE6 on their websites. Of course if your main user base uses IE6 or if you're working for a client that ...