I'm wondering how those popular media rich websites implement their media library. Do they store all the media files in the database? What kind of database do they use? Do they employ other mechanism to boost the performance? Thanks for any response. ...
I am really confused with this error and need some help. When accessing my link the first time in IE I type in : https://something/other/test.jsp and I'm presented with the FORBIDDEN-403 GlassFish Enterprise Server is now Presenting The Forbidden Page error page in GlassFish. However, if I refresh this same page then I see the resul...
The tool I used to use for load testing is Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool. However, it seems this is no longer available for download by Microsoft, and I haven't saved a copy. Question: Does anyone know where I can download it? Please let this be an exercise of answering the question. I understand there are alternatives, etc. ...
I'd like to better understand the reasons for .NET's application server model compared to that used by most Java application servers. In most cases I've seen with ASP.NET web applications, business logic is hosted in the web server's asp.net hosts processes. Another common approach is to have a physically or logically different tier wh...
I'm working on a new web app where a large amount of content (text, images, meta-data) is requested via an Ajax request. No auth or login required for a user to access this. My concern is that you could easily lookup the data source URL and hit it directly outside the app to get large data. In some ways, if you can do this you could p...
I am really confused about web application development. I read w3 and apple choose and recommend javascript for developing web apps but i heard that for developing web apps i need to create back-ends with Java. Can I learn html5/css3/javascript and develop a complete webapps by only using those technologies? Thanks ...
Hi, I am developing quite large web app and it is probably good idea to use hotkeys for some common tasks. However I discovered that finding safe key combinations is a problem, regarding all different browsers and OSes. For example Chrome has such a long list of hotkeys that trying to use some kind of logical hotkeys scheme for my webap...
As a matter of curiosity, what web technologies and frameworks are powering kayak.com ? ...
Rather than create a new app, I would like to hire a programmer to bridge multiple existing apps into one overall app. For example, a Fishing app that incorporated 3 already published apps from 3 different developers: Map, Compass, and Tide apps. Of course the venture and profits would be shared amongst all developers...but I would lik...
Hi, Consider that you have "System_A" which is a web application. And System_A has simply 3 layers: UI, BusinessLayer and Data-Layer. And now you want to make a widespread refactoring of System_A (the UI and BusinessLayer only) meanwhile that is working as a live product. What should be the safest strategy of refactoring System_A and ...
Hi! I have a Borland C++ application and I am new to desktop applications. I would like in one of the pages to embed a web page of another application of mine that the URL is something like: www.mysite.com/thepage In HTML I can use <IFrame>. How can I do it in Borland C++? ...
Hi, For our eLearning project in our university, we are using Java applets to show some interactive stuff (like some interactive function plotting or some simple question/answer system or other interactive elements and any combination on those) inside of Ilias learning units. We decided for Java because we wanted an open solution (and ...
I am creating a service that allows my website visitors to create content (text) and save it so they can access it at a later time. However, users don't need a user account before they can use this feature. They just click "Try now" and use it. If they want to save their work, then that's the time they need to sign up. I am planning to ...
I've been converting some .net "Web Sites" to "Web Applications". This has been going along smoothly. One of the steps that I perform each time I do a conversion is I go to the web section of the project properties and set the virtual directory. So far, I've set up -http://localhost/site1 -http://localhost/site2 -http://localhost/site...
I have a class library (lets call it a) which i've created a custom profile provider in. I reference this library in another class library (lets call this b) which is part of a solution along with a web application. Now how do i reference the custom profile provider in class library b. I've been following this article http://leedumond.c...
I have a form in a web page dynamically generated and I would like to display it using a the jQuery UI modal dialog. How can I display the modal dialog form with the remote existing form (myform.html) as content when I click on a link "Open Form"? Clicking on submit button should close the dialog form. ...
Hi, I have a web app where users can follow one another. When one user publishes some action, I'd like that action to appear in the feeds of followers. A simple approach might be keeping a feed.xml file for each user, which is updated like: UserA is followed by UserB, UserC. UserA publishes some content. Update UserB, User...
I'm using Telerik RadControls, in my codebehind I have the following function, a portion of which adds buttons to the footer. Protected Sub RadGrid1_ItemCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridItemEventArgs) If TypeOf e.Item Is GridDataItem Then Dim editLink As HyperLink = DirectCast(e.Item.FindControl("EditLi...
I have basic knowledge of PHP and had done a few small personal projects before. Since my programs were small and usually consisted of less than five classes, I jumped into coding right away -- thinking of my database tables and user interface design as I went along. The problem was that I often found myself lost in my own ideas at the m...
Hello! I'm planning on developing a website that uses two languages, instead of making separate htmls one in language "a" and one in language "b", I wanted to know what do you recommend? What should I be looking at if I want to change the value of the variables like buttonNames instead of designing a separate thing? Or should I be desi...