web-applications

writing an extension for Safari 5

As of Monday 7th June 2010 Safari (v5) supports Extensions. Some already exist such as the Gmail Checker & the upcoming Coda Notes by Panic. So my question... Where would one begin if one intends to develop an application for Safari 5? Thanks in advance for any feedback! ...

Wireframe, UI Mockups, Sitemap, Webflow, Website navigation

Hi, Can anybody recommends a good design tool for designing Sitemaps, Website Layouts, Web Flows, Link Maps and Website Navigation diagrams? First of all I need a good wireframe and UI mockup designer software. l. ...

Web app - Biometric system connection

Hi, I will be developing an application for a club where they will have visitors use biometric systems(finger print) or magnetic cards to mark their attendance. This application is planned as a web app, made using PHP/MySQL/Javascript. It does a lot of other things as well. What I wanted to find out is how is the interface between Bi...

Specify remote qualifier for "use custom web server"

Does anyone know how you set the remote debug monitor qualifier used by Visual Studio when attempting to connect to MSVSMON automatically? To give the context of this question: On our development web server, we have IIS running and an MSVSMON session as 'Stephen.Edmonds@UK06695'. On my development machine, I have Visual Studio 2008 se...

Can CultureInfo.CurrentCulture differ per application pool?

I'm having trouble with CultureInfo in our ASP.NET web application. Our web application returns a different culture, depending on which application pool it is in. In application pool A, it is en-US, but in application pool B, it's nl-BE. I'd like it to be nl-BE, but can't find where to change this (IIS6 by the way). I'm not even sure ...

Is it against the ToS to add a custom commercial feature on top of a Google service?

Now let me explain real quick what I mean by "commercial". By that, I simply mean my feature would come with ads to produce revenue. The end user still gets free access. You see, I came up with some ideas for features that would be really nice if they supported, but I would doubt they would support any time soon. The terms of service...

Create a web project from an ant buildfile in Eclipse

A guy at work needs to import an existing Java webapp into Eclipse. When he imports it from the Ant buildfile it creates a normal Java project instead of a web project. I think he also said it doesn't import the struts and faces? Something like that. Is there a way to create a web project in Eclipse EE from an Ant buildfile? If so, ...

Silverlight - server side initialization

I am new to SilverLight and also web development. When the webserver application for the Silverlight app starts up I want to kick off some processes (server side) .. how do I do this .. there is no Main() or any other way I can see of doing this. I have a feeling it is to do with the html tag on the startup page which currently point to...

Team build of Web Projects generates App_web_xxxx.dll files and TFSBuild.Proj Script

Hi all, I have a web application that has some non-web projects as well. When using Web Deployment, a single assembly is generated for all the aspx.vb files. When using Team Build (TS 2008), a lot number App_Web_xxx.dll file(s) are generated instead of a single assembly. How can i solve this problem and change the TFSBuild.proj file ...

CMIS explorer webapp

CMIS is a recently approved standard for accessing ECM repositories. My idea is to create a repository explorer using CMIS, under the form of an open source Java/JEE Web Application. The main interest would probably be for integrators, using it as a framework on which to quickly build repository access intranet/extranet applications. ...

Which comes first: database or application logic ?

What is the best way or recommended best practice in the flow of database driven asp.net web application? I mean the database first or coding first or side by side? ...

What is a good approach to preloading data?

Are there best practices out there for loading data into a database, to be used with a new installation of an application? For example, for application foo to run, it needs some basic data before it can even be started. I've used a couple options in the past: TSQL for every row that needs to be preloaded: IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM M...

iPad WebApp Full Screen in Safari

Apple says, the code <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> is supposed to make the the web app full screen from iPhone OS 2.1 and later. (Source: http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008193-SW3 ) But it does...

How do I use jQuery for click event in iPhone web application

When I use jQuery for a simple click event it only works for links. Is there a way to make it work for spans etc: $("span.clicked").live("click", function(e){alert("span clicked!")}); $("a.clicked").live("click", function(e){alert("link clicked!")}); Example is here: http://ip1n.j-www.com/test/index2.html The SPAN works in Safari bu...

How do I access my web application from a non-local machine?

hi, I have a Ruby on Rails application that I'm developing on my computer, which runs Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I'd like to be able to access it from a remote computer for testing purposes. I've no idea how to proceed. Do I need to set up port forwarding? Virtual hosts? Can anyone point me to an article/tutorial/whatever that has information ab...

Recommendation for web-based database visualization tool

Tableau is extremely flexible when it comes to visualizing and playing around with datasets, but it is extremely slow when you go into "production mode" and publish a particular view that you've created onto your server. Does anyone know of any tools that can be used to connect to a database, present interactive (or somewhat interactive)...

How to get rid of library references problem? Java

Hello, I created a web application and it used several libraries once upon a time. So i added them but later on i found alternative and actually better ways to do the same things. So i removed references from my project for those jars and libraries. Everything works fine but when i move the same project to my friend's laptop Netbeans 6....

calling a java servlet from javascript

I am trying to create a web application using the MVC design pattern. For the GUI part I would like to use JavaScript. And for the controller Java Servlets. Now I have never really worked with JavaScript, so I'm having a hard time figuring out how to call a Java Servlet from JavaScript and how to get the response from the Servlet. Can...

Application lifetime in ASP.NET

This should be a simple question but I haven't managed to find the answer on google. I would like to know, in terms an idiot can understand, exactly what application lifetime means in ASP.NET (and therefore when you can expect application start and end events to run). I assumed it would be when you run and stop the app in IIS, but I've...

building a web application in eclipse

As a concluding assignment for the technologies taught in a data management course, we have to write a web application using the technologies taught throughout the course, this mostly includes xhtml, css, JSP, servelets, JDBC, AJAX, webservices. the project will eventually be deployed using tomcat. we are given the option of choosing the...