web-applications

How to do a back-reference on Google AppEngine?

I'm trying to access an object that is linked to by a db.ReferenceProperty in Google app engine. Here's the model's code: class InquiryQuestion(db.Model): inquiry_ref = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class=GiftInquiry, required=True, collection_name="inquiry_ref") And I am trying to access it in the following way: linkedObject =...

Learning web development as I go

Hey everybody, I've been seriously preparing to take the entrepreneurship leap. I've got a great partner, and we're going to take on some minor funding, and do the thing. Our product is web-based- I'll deem it YAWA (Yet Another Web Application). Both my partner and I have database and web development experience, and I've had a front-...

Web apps which book for the common stuff? (security, scaliability,etc not basics like PHP/MySql)

I guess that the title says it all. I know PHP and am just beginning with MySql (but plan to use ODBC). I don't need any books explaining that. I am probably qualified to develop a simple web site, but aim at taking on quite ambitious apps. I imagine that almost all web apps have some commonality like security, scalability, etc (I have...

Web-apps : to framework or not to framework?

I know PHP and am just beginning with MySql (but plan to use ODBC). I don't need any books explaining that. I am probably qualified to develop a simple web site, but aim at taking on quite ambitious apps. I imagine that almost all web apps have some commonality like security, scalability, etc (I have absolutely no idea how to distribute...

question on GWT, Cookies and webpage directing

Hello guys, i am using gwt to create a website. this question is regarding a login page and cookies to save login details. GWT allows you to create a website within a single webpage. my application runs on one webpage. i have the application set up as , there is a login box with a login button, and if the details are correct it will l...

WPF Web application: How to embed in ASP.NET page ?

I am trying to bulid a WPF web application.I have 2 projects in the solution .One is of type WPF web application and another is of type ASP.NET web application where i need to embed the WPF stuff.The XAML file runs file when i set startup project as the WPF web app project.How can i add/embed this into the Default.aspx of my ASP.NET Web ...

Is php capable of doing what I want?

Hey stack overflow, I'm working on a biology web based application and trying to figure out what language to use. The features I need to include are: Image viewing frame - This area will display the current image that the biologists wish to see. The application needs to take in a number of coordinates from a file and draw those point...

Do you prefer Python/DJango, or Ruby on Rails in creating a web app?

I was recently in a Software Engineering class that involved a semester-long group project. We were given requirements and were asked to build a piece of software to assist in a task. In our case, a Psychology professor wanted something to help her students track their sleep patterns. My group pretty successfully used DJango to create a...

When designing a web project, how should use statistics be incorporated?

Suppose you are taking notes on the requirements of an app enhancement for software that sells products X1 - X100 on the internet. The marketing people have a laundry list of features that the software should be able to do, but aren't mentioning things like reporting, feature interoperability, or version testing. In the same way that y...

how to make the username and email is Unique .. using WTFroms

wtforms is a forms validation and rendering library for python web development but i can't find how to handle the username and email Unique , thanks ...

Asset tracking in "real-time" - how best to display in browser?

I am developing an asset tracking system, standard LAMP, and now am wondering how best to present the data to the user in the browser. I expect to track and most a few thousand items, and to refresh them every second or so. I want to draw a floorplan or map of the area and represent the assets the assets symbolically on that (with diff...

[Django] How to limit requests per minute per user?

I Have several forms in my website and I have several pages with intense database activity. I want to set a cap on requests per user. For example, I don't want people to make over 10 requests in less than 10 seconds. Is there way to do this in Django? ...

Creating avatar from uploaded image

We are using asp.net with .net 4.0 We want to allow users to upload any image and we want to create tiny avatar for uploaded image? What is the best way to convert uploaded images for avatar? We want to keep the same height width ratio if we can convert gif, bmp, jpg, png to one standard format it would be greate. Which could be the...

Componentizing complex functionality in an MVC web app

Hi Everyone, This is question about MVC web-app architecture, and how it can be extended to handle componentizing moderately complex units of functionality. I have an MVC style web-app with a customer facing credit card charge page. I've been asked to allow the admins to enter credit card payments as well, for times when credit cards ...

Printing to different printers using mozilla.

I am currently creating a web application that will be deployed in an intranet environment. I chose firefox to be the browser that will run it. However, in the application I am building, I need to be able to print to different printers quickly since they use different paper size depending on what client is coming. To avoid many time-was...

HTML5 Webapp as regular icon or app on iPhone and Andorid.

Hi all, Sorry if this is a noob question, I searched quite a bit and couldn't find an answer. I'm developing a html5 app that relies on sqlite for local storage. I'd like for it to appear as an app icon on the iPhone/Android screen, what's the best way to do this? Ie can I write some sort of "wrapper" app to achieve it? Thanks! ...

integrate version control with java/j2ee web based application

Hi All, we have a requirement to provide versioning(like version control) to the files uploaded to our application which is java/j2ee web based. We support files to upload/download to the application. Users frequently do the changes to the file by downloading from my appln and modify them, then upload back to the application. as of now ...

What database design for an enterprise cloud service

I'm planning a database for an enterprise cloud service. The service will be two web applications, one Warehouse management system and one for Invoices. Companies can signup and become a "user" of the service, then they can have their Inventory and Invoice system online. Should I keep all users/companies in the same table or should I h...

Date or String declaration in a javabean

Should I declare an attribute in a javabean that holds a date value a user types in on an HTML form as a String or Date? I feel I should declare as a Date, however, since I do server validation on all form data, if the date doesn't validate, when I pass the form bean back to the jsp view for correcting, I lose the date value that the ...

question on redirecting in gwt

Hello guys, i am using gwt to create a web application. when a user presses the logout button, i want to be able to refresh the page(or basically redirect to the homepage)as my GWT application runs only on one html page. what is the programmatic code to do this? ...