web-applications

I want to create a form in SharePoint that allows the booking of time on a timetable

Hello, I am currently working on the student association's website. The student's association owns a couple of rooms and we want to build an online form which allows a student to book the room for a specific time, and we want to have a timetable to show which times are currently booked. Thanks a lot! ...

Does the choice of language affect who will use the application, especially in terms of web applications?

I think this mostly applies to web applications, since you often see things like language and database vendor in regards to web applications, but not so much on desktop applications. If a web application is created using language X, would that have any noticeable impact on who deploys the application? For example, would a company that u...

Can you use couchDB for web apps like ebay?

I mean, can you use couchDB for: CRUD of items, users bids and auctions resolutions bidirectional califications forum items comparison ...

Is there a tool to generate web pages based on Java beans?

Is there a tool that will take you java beans (pojos) and automatically make them a form for a webpage? To be more clear I have a bunch of Jaxb objects that I want to be able to display in a form without having to code a bunch of html. Is there a tool that will read the jaxb objects and generate the editable form for me? Also, this ne...

Thoughts on making a webapp fullscreen in a pop-up

At my company most inventory tracking is done via an ASP.NET web application. The application is poorly conceived, poorly designed, poorly implemented, and somewhat of a hassle for a user to work with. These are things that are my opinion though and management has its own thoughts on the matter. Such luxuries as the browser's back but...

Test automation with postgresql connected application

Hello there, I want to automate tests on my web application, and it uses postgresql. Does anyone know how define a restore point on a postgresql database and restore to an earlier state? I heard something about point in time recovery, but i dont if this is what i need. Thanks in advance ...

Why would someone use Button instead of LinkButton control in navigation.

I am reworking some ui in an application written by freelance .Net developers from another country. I am not going to go into how bad the code is and entangled the code with structure content and presentation are... But one of the things I notice is that menu for accessing the parts of the app is made with Button controls that post ...

Why are web applications more popular than local applications?

I ask this because at work I am supposed to develop a web-application that is used in an intranet, by two people. It's an application that should keep some states in a workflow. So I have to keep data in a session and have to care about concurrency. It would be so much easier to develop a normal desktop-application. But the client was...

Detect from browser if specific application is installed

We have an advanced webpage (ASP.NET, C#), and a application which needs to be installed on the client computer in order to utilize the webpage to its fullest. The application is a tray app, and has primarily two tasks. Detect when certain events happen on the webserver (for instance invited to a meeting, or notify of an upcoming meeting...

Best Practices for Building a SSO System

I am looking to build a Single-signon system for a couple web apps that used form based authentication. They way that I envision it is that my sso system would handle authentication against active directory pass the verification through to the desired web app when ever the used clicked a link through my sso portal. What might be the b...

How to call remote EJB from standalone client

I have my EJB deployed on weblogic server. I want to access those EJB from standalone applications (a thin client). ...

Latest web application features

What kind of features web users are expecting or excited about? I am aware of Ajax. Any thing else? I dont understand how tags are important even on this stackoverflow site. I dont understand how wiki is an important feature? I see that questions get "kicked" in terms of improtance or relevance but still dont understand full impact of it...

Locking SQL Server to a specific application on a web server

I'm curious, is there a way to tell the SQL Server that a specific group has access to the database only from a single location/application. I have an SQL Server and a Web Server. Our applications use stored procedures and access for each stored procedure is based on the role that is allowed to access it. Then user groups are assigned...

What, in your opinion, is the best-looking webapp?

Going purely on aesthetics, what would you say is the best-looking webapp? Edit: Changed to community wiki ...

Employee Scheduling Software? Web/Browser Based

Just wondering if any of you guys know of any web-based/browser-based employee scheduling software/tools? Currently doing it all in Excel, but it just isnt intelligent enough... any product suggestions? Needs to handle multiple employees time over weeks and months... to schedule in work short-term and long-term, allow me to see possib...

Sending email in Java

I have read that to send email in Java I need to obtain my ISP's SMTP address, but if I am intending to host my web app online, will this be my hosts ISP SMTP address? EDIT: So I need to find out my clients ISP's SMTP address and send via this? ...

Filemaker & lasso: viable web application ?

Hi everyone. We have a huge web application running on lasso, mainly because it first was a huge internal filemaker database, that was to be opened to the public as a web app. The web application doesn't use filemaker though, it runs on a MySQL database, recreated every day. The only reason I know of for using lasso is it's easy integ...

3d Graphics for a Web Based Application

Hi, I've to create a Web Based Application, that amongst other things, includes the following tasks Loading a 3D model from a database. Display the 3D Model. Doing Inverse Kinematics computations to generate the series of steps for the model to move from an initial to final position. Display the animation in real time. The applicati...

How do you determine if something should go below your web path or inside your web path?

I'm wondering if there's some kind of criteria that can be used to determine where a script or file should go. ...

How to detect that a feed reader accesses my page?

I would like to serve a different content from a single URL depending on whether the user is a browser or a RSS reader (hence avoiding an example.com/feed URL). Thus www.example.com/posts will return an (X)HTML page to a browser and an RSS feed to a feed reader. What the architecturally most appropriate way of accomplishing this? PS Ho...