web-applications

Managing important runtime business logic with regard to a codebase

I'm working on a project which will end up have a lot of application information stored in the form of records in a database. In this case, it's the configuration of data views: which grid columns to show/hide default filters to apply to each grid view column titles sorting subtotaling ... This information is a big part of the value...

ASP.NET Deployment under IIS7/VS2010 as Web Application

I transformed my VS2008 ASP.NET Website to a "Web Application" today using VS2010. So now it's possible to build a Deployment Package. A Zip Package which can be direclty imported into IIS7. Usually I added a website in IIS7 called mydomain.com and put everything in its root dir. That worked. However, since I converted to an Web Applic...

Problems with retrieving the correct cookie in Java

When I retrieve the cookies in my java servlet, all of the values from getPath() are null. So if a cookie with the same name is set in directory /foo, and at the root directory, I retrieve two cookies with the same exact name, but I can't differentiate them because getPath() returns null for both. I looked in firebug and saw that firef...

JQTOUCH - Anytime loading occurs, add a loading class?

Hi, I'm using JQTOUCH and in JQTOUCH several of the links are being loading via AJAX and then sliding in. The problem is that there is no loading indication provided to users. I'd like a way to add a Loading class with an AJAX spinner, when ever the an ajax call is loading, and have the class removed when the loading is done, and the pa...

How should 4 decimals places behave, being simple yet powerful

I have a UI question that troubled me on the best method to handle 4 decimal places for prices. In an table already cramped full of data, I would want to simplified the interface to make it not so cluttered. The actual current UI is shown below. http://i41.tinypic.com/bg5tub.jpg The problem is, for a unit price/units/D.Price and Dis.(...

Web based delivery pricing system - where to start?

I've been asked to quote on how long it would take to deliver a system such as can be found here: http://cgi.tnt.co.uk/ratechecker/enter_details.asp The client basically wants to give quotes for shipping based on a number of variables such as weight, distance etc, and for it to be accessible through their website. I've thought of the ...

GWT layout panels vs. CSS layout

I read an article entitled "Tags First GWT", in which the writer suggests using GWT for event-handling, and CSS for layout. I just don't know whether the benefit of GWT's cross-browser compatibility goodness outweighs the flexibility offered by pure CSS layout. GWT GWT 2.0 has some snazzy layout panels, but to get them to resize proper...

How does one port c++ functions to the internet?

I have a few years experience programming c++ and a little less then that using Qt. I built a data mining software using Qt and I want to make it available online. Unfortunately, I know close to nothing about web programming. Firstly, how easy or hard is this to do and what is the best way to go about it? Supposing I am looking to hire ...

Customer Google Analytics in Web App

I have a web app where people can create custom content on the web which is hosted by my service. I want to provide users with the ability to track activity on their specific page via Google Analytic. I've seen some other companies providing this option (MailChimp). I was wondering if anyone had experience in implementing this kind of s...

Any hosts support asp.net 4.0 yet - Ideally want green hosting

I realise it's vry soon after launching, but I'm keen to develop website in 4.0, but obviously need a host. If there are none hosting 4.0 yet, any one aware of timescales. UK hosts needed. edit: I would like to use GREEN HOSTING, so anyone aware of UK host supporting .net 4.0 using green energy! Thanks ...

what libraries or platforms should I use to build web apps that provide real-time, asynchronous data synchronization between clients?

This is a less a question with a simple, practical answer and more a question to foster discussion on the real-time data exchange topic. I'll begin with an example: Google Wave is, at its core, a real-time asynchronous data synchronization engine. Wave supports (or plans to support) concurrent (real-time) document collaboration, discon...

Eclipse Maven web application - can not run on server anymore

I have an maven eclipse webapp project that I was able to right click and 'Run on server' and it would deploy on tomcat. I recently did a 'maven -> Update project conifgurations' and I now can NOT deploy and run the project as a webapp. Has anyone seen this before? The only output from tomcat is as follows - it doesnt even look like it...

Are barcodes the best way to uniquely identify physical documents that need to be digitized for a web app?

I have to digitize a few thousand physical documents and assign them to a variety of categories for a web app where they will be displayed. Should I generate bar codes for each of the documents to uniquely identify them? If so, how can I avoid the barcode being present in the scanned image? Any other recommendations for approaching th...

How has RIA technology evolved and what technology stack currently rules this domain?

I am new to RIA and have not been actively involved with this technology in my projects as we using server-side Java, but I want to gain some experience with RIA. My questions are: How has RIA technology evolved and in your opinion - What technology stack currently rules this domain? What are the recommended resources for learning R...

Is there a production ready web application framework in Python?

I heard lots of good opinions about Python language. They say it's mature, expressive etc... I'm looking for production-ready enterprise application frameworks in Python. By "production ready" I mean : supports objective-relational mapping with caching and declarative desciption (like JPA, Hibernate etc..) controls oriented user interf...

ASP.NET Navgiate to section on page (help files)

I am writing a help page with sections - What I want to do is allow navigation to a particular section (depending on what page they clicked help from) rather always landing at the top of the page. My web app is written in ASP.NET, Can anyone point me in the direction of how to set this up? Thanks! ...

Mono webbrowser

Hi to all, I'm a new to mono enviroment and I have some question to ask... I'm trying to make a "browser" that display me a web page, well in windows NET is easy I can use Form.Window.WebBrowser. So I test with Moma this app, and it notice me that I can't use Form.Window.Webbroser " mac osx not compatible", Well I search around th...

how to achieve xxx.blogspot.com URL pattern ??

Consider the case of blogspot.com the domain is the one blogspot.com only but suppose i register in it with xxx then i will have xxx.blogspot.com like wise here it won't be the subdomain (i can smell) , but its some thing different ... how to achieve this ?? in j2ee web application.. ...

Can an iPhone Web App use the Camera?

I have a web app and I want to take photos and then upload them to a server. Can this be done with a webapp? ...

I would like to build an app that alerts me when road traffic is high or low. Where can I get the raw data?

I'm sitting at work, waiting for traffic to die down. The thought occurred to me. I know when I want to go home, why don't I have an app that watches traffic for me? I also know that there are a lot of smart people on stackoverflow. Where can I get live traffic data for the san francisco bay area region? The data source should be ti...