I was looking at ways to authenticate users in a web app, but in a way where the main web app doesn't need to process the password. Something like OpenId, but the authentication server would definitely need to be hosted on an intranet, internet services can't be accessed by the application server. My environement is pretty much Java web...
Do the major web application frameworks (Rails, Django, etc) have libraries that provide functionality for signing in, signing up, creating usernames, changing passwords, and managing lost passwords? It seems to me that this is common functionality that should be supported by some standard library, but I haven't seen anything in my sear...
I'm building a web application on .Net and it will run on 64 bit server. Is there something special that I should do to take full advantage of 64 bits? Only thing that comes to mind is that RAM is cheap and "unlimited" for 64bit, maybe I should cache as much as possible. Edit: closing as duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions...
I'm considering using PostgreSQL with a .Net web app. Basically 3 reasons: Mature Geo Queries Small footprint + Linux Price I'm wondering a bit about tools though, SQL Server Profiler and query plans and performance monitors have been helpful. How is this world with Postgres? Some other things I should consider? Edit: Will most like...
I am building one of my first web application, and I found some problems in managing a dynamic navigation menu. In particular, I don't know what is the best way (or, almost, a good way) to set a different css class for the current navigation item when a user go to a page. I have a 2 levels menu, as you can see in this screenshot: A s...
Why are the code-behind pages for an ASP.NET web application locked at run time? I have older projects (probably defined as "web sites" instead of "web apps") where I can edit the code behind, refresh the browser, and see my changes. With the web app, I have to continually close and reopen the browser if I want to see my changes live. Is...
To send a message I usually press ctrl + enter. What other shortcuts do you think are important to implement into your webapplications? Edit: What buttons do you think are interessting to catch with js because they aren't used by the browser? I am not thinking of ctrl + z f.e. because the browser uses those maybe shift + [key] makes s...
I have a simple web app, with a few jsp pages, servlets and pojo's. I want to initialise the connection pool before any requests are made. What is the best way to do this? Can it be done when the app is first deployed or do you have to wait till the first request comes in? ...
Are there any good (preferably free) tools out there? Can they give accurate estimates that reflect production results when the app goes live? ...
Ideally something as intuitive as basecamp, with good usability and accessibility. The best I've seen is huddle.net but it's still weak in several areas. Must have: Projects - ability to add people & tasks and schedule tasks to people Calendar - showing when people are busy or available Role based access - Admins and non-admins Histo...
I am looking for a good Environment (GUI based Editor) for blackberry webapps. e.g., is there a Eclipse plugin out there ? ...
Hi all, I am the .Net specialist in a consultancy with many difference flavors of developers using many different languages and frameworks. Because everyone is pretty much trying to push their own agendas with our different clients in terms of what technology to propose, I'm constantly finding myself in the classic arguments with them a...
Hi, I need to use javascript in a form for mobile web application. Please need some information about it, related to browser compatibility as well as way to use javascript in mobile web applications (syntax). Thanks & Regards, Khushi ...
When a web application running and on close the browser window then which event raise? ...
Is there any setting using which the iPhone keyboard won't appear for a particular textbox in web page? May be some css kind of setting? ...
For my web application running on LAMP, I need to be able to deploy database migrations and code changes on multiple servers and be able to test deployment afterwards, all of this automatically done by scripts. Currently I'm torn between using directly my build tool (Phing) with some special deployment/test tasks, or shell scripts, or a...
I'm having some trouble uploading and getting my web app on the net with my chosen host. I built a war file in Net Beans and asked my host to deploy it for me. This worked fine but to access it I had to point my browser to: www.myDomain.co.uk/explodedWar What of course I wanted was to be able to access it just by pointing my browser ...
I have a HTML application, partially HTML, partially VBscript, disguised as a form. What it does is it opens a few local files, runs a DOS box containing GAWK and presents a text file as its result. I wish to expand upon it by letting it create a bitmap image with the results in a stacked bar graph, for instance as a .BMP file. But I'm s...
I have a project built and packaged with a specific version of jsp-apiand servlet-api jar files. Now I want these jars to be loaded when deploying the web project on any application server for example tomcat, WAS, Weblogic etc. The behaviour I have seen on tomcat is that it gives messages that the packaged version of these apis are not ...
I was looking into GWT. It seems nice, but our software have the must work without JS requirement. Is it possible? ...