web-applications

ASP.NET Membership - A design for tracking additional information

I'm working on an ASP.NET4.0/C# application for a public site that needs to authenticate only the employees that work at the associated business. The idea is for the site to have a CMS such that employees can go in and make changes to certain content without having to work with any html. My question relates to the design and use of a AS...

How to create a setup experience much like LogMeIn?

I would like to find out if someone (and maybe someone on StackOverflow works for LogMeIn, and can fill me in on the details) knows how to create a similar experience much like what you get with LogMeIn when you install their remote components on a computer, when logged into their site? Typically, when you download and keep their remote...

Getting Rid of DBO? SQL 2008

Just wondered if there was a secret to do something like Database.Security.Users like AdventureWorks DB is setup. Seems no matter what I do to try to setup "Security.Users", I always get the dbo in front of it and have a hell of a time in C# accessing the info. Am I doing something wrong? ...

Interaction between Webapp and Applet

I know that there is a 99% chance of the answer to this question being "no" due to the nature of Applets, but I'm going to ask anyways. I have a SmartCard containing X.509 certificates and applets. I'd like to be able to interact between the webapp and one of the applets in a read-only manner to pull data via that applet that is unavail...

Silverlight HTML-JS-DOM Bridge : Real world use cases?

I've seen a lot of stuff online that shows proof of concept tutorials of how Silverlight can be used to enhance web pages by handing tasks off to it to make use of threading, manipulate the DOM, achieve Comet-like functionality etc. It all seems very interesting, however, has any one got any real world use cases to share as I can't seem...

Design, storage and retrieval of dynamic forms

What is the design behind custom dynamically generated forms? Would like to implement something like drupal's CCK. In the control panel, the owner of the form designs what fields should be in the form and in what order the form fields should be in, as well as the field's attributes such as "required: yes/no" Once the form has been de...

Applying javascript to website with appcelerator titanium

I'm try to use accelerator Titanium to add native commands to a webapp. http://appcelerator.com/ I'm changing the window location to an external website like this: window.location = http://site.com; I want to bind events on that website. $('a').click(function () { alert('clicked'); }); The site has jquery loaded, the index.html...

How do you manage multiple programs that all do similar things?

I have a program that I have chosen to duplicate because it is being modified to meet the requirements of a completely different market. However, many aspects of the program, especially much of the content, will remain unchanged (for now). The particular market we are targeting is subject to regulation by the government, and having dealt...

Real-world ZK vs GWT experience

A fellow developer and I are putting together a proposal for a new application, and we've presented both ZK and GWT to be possible choices. After messing around with both, I'd prefer to move ahead with a ZK proof-of-concept, but one of the "senior architects" of the company (who isn't even on our team) seems to be trying to take over th...

iPhone WebApp - Running completely offline

I have my iPhone WebApp actually running offline and caching all assets. When I save it to the desktop and run the app, the webapp will continue to call main.manifest (this was specified in my HTML tag as per the documentation). Also I have setup my .htaccess file as below, and restarted apache AddType text/cache-manifest .manifest ...

How can I use the Twitter API to get tweets for a specific user and timeframe?

I've been doing some research into using the Twitter API, and I'm not sure if I'm understanding it correctly. I want to get tweets from a specific user for a specific time-frame. From what I can tell, using the search function to specify a date range doesn't work because only the last 7 days are kept. I could just get the tweets and work...

ASP.NET/IIS7 - Securing access to SQL Server for multiple user roles

I'm working on an web application using ASP.NET 4.0, C#, and IIS7. The web application is a content management system that defines multiple user roles, such as editor and administrator. These users and roles are managed by the asp.net membership framework, and the associated database tables are integrated into the web app's database usin...

Hand over variables to a website without a querystring

I have a web-application (ASP.NET) and want to open another external webpage on another machine. I have to forward some information (variables) to that webpage, but they should not be part of the URL. So my question is, how can I achieve this without querystrings? ...

How to set CSS property when developing for the Vodafone MWP ?

I'm working on a widget for the Vodafone Mobile Widget Platform and was trying to change some properties of a DIV using JS. I used document.getElementById('mydiv').style="width: 10px; height: 10px""; I should work, but it doesn't seem to set the right values. Is the widget run-time treating these statements differently than normal? ...

How to write a complete web application?

These questions were asked me in a technical interview: If we deploy an application on multiple server (like database server, web server) then, each request should be redirected to proper server, then how you will handle it in your code? How security pinholes will be handled in an application? What things should be considered while wri...

Web Applications: The death of long URL's?

If you use a full, SEO Friendly URL like http://example.com/talks/about/star-wars then you can expect your URL to get eaten up by the users that submit it to bit.ly and others. So my question is, would it be better to create your own internal shortener for links and just ignore any SEO benefit of the URL keywords in exchange for the SEO...

Problem getting apache to default to a particular JKMount using mod_jk

Hi, I have an apache instance fronting 4 tomcat webapps, lets call them app1, app2, app3, app4. I'm using mod_jk to act as the connector and I've set up apache with JKMount entries for each and I can happily hit: server:8080/app1 server:8080/app2 server:8080/app3 server:8080/app4 But what i actually want is to have all the traffic ...

Alternative to java/flash for low-latency bidirectional communications in webapps?

I would like to design webapps (eg. games) that have low latency. I presume that the header of ajax would add latency. What I really would like is a protocol where the connection is never broken, and both client and server can push data to each other immediately. (and thus comet isn't really a choice, since there is communication only on...

How to improve web App

I would love my client's web app to take off, but I feel that there is much improvement to be had before it can be completely usable. What are some resources that will allow me to get feedback and advice/suggestions for improvement/addition of features that will make it more usable?! If you'd like to take a look yourself see it here. R...

Silverlight Browser App to Desktop App

I saw this Silverlight application that works inside the browser but if you clicked Install it will be downloaded on your machine and runs as Desktop Application how this can be done !! http://os75.com/apps/Translator.html ...