web-applications

Make Desktop Application Web Interfaceable

Is there a way to make a desktop application easily interfaceable via Web ? Meaning, can you have a way to interface with a single desktop application as if you were remote desktop'd into the machine but not? I am looking at doing this in ASP.NET or Silverlight. ...

Should I use dialog boxes in my web application?

I'm developing a typical web application with functions like add, remove, view, search and other yada yada. However, I'm uncertain how much I should rely on dialog boxes. Should I have a dialog box for adding information to the system or perhaps only as a confirmation when deleting something? I could also, for example, use a login dialo...

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    Deploying a Web Application from the command line

    Hi. Im looking to deploy a web application on a build server. It is a very small web app and so far i have written a nice little console app that checks out from SVN and then calls msbuild on the .sln file. This of course is not the same as publishing a web app and so far have not found a programatic way of publishing. So my question ...

    One application instance for two domain name

    Hello, I have two web applications in ASP.NET which are quite the same (same business logic, same DAL, same DB scheme but different instance). The only thing that I need to change is the design (logo, color,...) and the text (global and local resource) to adress two separate business sector. We cannot "subdomain" the application becau...

    debate: Is adding third party libraries to a war a good idea?

    We have a debate going on . a. The "standard" way of assembling a web app. Create a WAR with all our app artifacts and all other components like hibernate and memcached etc are deployed in the tomcat/shared/lib area. b. Create a humongous war with everything included and nothing in tomcat/shared/lib. Pros for a - It keeps thi...

    what program language to choose on simple web application?

    I need to create a web-application, that will read content from txt files, read user input information to pdf (i will use itext for pdf purposes). I know java a bit, so I thought about GWT, but i read that there problems with input/output. If not GWT, what program language is good for my web application and easy to learn. Thanks in adva...

    Any benefit/disadvantages to open beta vs. closed beta for webapp

    This isn't a question about code, but it's programming related. We have a web app that's ready for beta testing. Has anyone noticed any difference between open beta vs. closed beta in terms of the quality or quantity of feedback the testers give or any other factors? ...

    advance/basic and smartphone views in Rails

    In a new Rail app I have to consider 2 differents user's type: basic and Advanced and I have to create smartphone views( unique view for both user's type). Then I have 3 view/layout: web advance web basic smartphone I already have the adv/basic flag for the user, and I followed the RBates tutorial http://asciicasts.com/episodes/19...

    Webapp: safetly update a shared List/Map in the AppContext

    I've Lists and Maps in my WebAppContext. Most of the time these are only read by multiple Threads but sometimes there's the need to update or add some data. I'm wondering what's the best way to do this without incurring in a ConcurrentModificationException. I think that using CopyOnWriteArrayList I can achieve what I want in terms of -...

    Can iphone web apps, be put on appstore for sale, just like native apps?

    Can iphone web apps be sold on appstore, without requiring user to do manual bookmark, etc? ...

    How to override equals() in google app engine data model type?

    I'm using the Python libraries for Google App Engine. How can I override the equals() method on a class so that it judges equality on the user_id field of the following class: class UserAccount(db.Model): # compare all equality tests on user_id user = db.UserProperty(required=True) user_id = db.StringProperty(required=True)...

    Google App Engine Python Authentication from API

    I'm currently building a Python webapp on the Google App Engine and I want to expose various parts of my application via a JSON API. This API may be used in the form of a mobile client, or (for the purposes of testing) a headless Python script. I need to be able to authenticate users before they perform operations on the API. I notice t...

    Couple PHP with AJAX States

    Hey everyone, I have a puzzling problem with trying to make an ajax/static state program. What I am trying to do is allow a static linked app have ajax dynamic urls and everything is kinda fine until a page refresh. The problem: PHP Does not see the hash so it only sees the original URI request. So PHP loads the original page but then...

    Jersey JAX-RS on Glassfish 3.0.1: Can I have an empty webapp element in my web.xml?

    My understanding is that glassfish 3 is JEE6 compliant and jax-rs-aware, and that consequently I do not have to include the jersey servlet container and mapping in my web.xml file. Here's what I was hoping my web.xml could look like <webapp> </webapp> That doesn't work though, as I get 404's when I try to hit my jax-rs path-anotated ...

    What is a good tool for unit testing javascript in a maven webapp / liftweb project?

    I want to unit test the javascript I have embedded in the webapp portion of my liftweb project. Liftweb is a subset of the maven webapp archetype, so my question applies to that framework as well. By 'good', I mean that the tests can be integrated into the maven automated testing. I understand that different browsers support different...

    My Site Video upload speed is slower than other site?

    I have uploaded a same file to two different sites it had 30% time difference what are all the major factors affecting this? and what should i do to increase my sites upload speed? ...

    Why do you not use C for your web apps?

    Hello all, I was having a look at a few different web servers this morning when I came across G-WAN. As I understand, its a web server written in C and you have to make use of it by writing your websites/webapps in C. One clear benefit is speed as the G-WAN site suggests. However, on the forums, the creator of G-WAN asked why not use C...

    How to fetch file contents via AJAX without visible refresh spinner on iphone

    I am developing a web app for iphone which requires the application to check for changes in a text file, and as soon as a change is detected, to complete certain actions. The text file changes around once every 3 but the change has to be detected almost instantly and so I'm currently doing an ajax refresh every second. This works perfe...

    Spring: Okay to have two contexts - web & backend?

    Hi, I have a spring-base web app with a spring-based backend. Currently, the integration is done in a stupid way of manual copying the backend .xml's to the web app resources and merging. I was wondering whether Spring is ready to have a bean which would be another ApplicationContext, and whether it can get beans from it; also if it ha...