web-applications

Jave Applet: how to simulate an url has been clicked ?

Hi all: Basically I want my Java Applet to simulate an url has been clicked, once a certain event listener has been executed. Say, before I have a link in html: <a href='destinationpage.php?pid=1001' target='rightFrame' /> I'd like to keep the same link to php intact, and when Applet actually invoke the click simulation method, the ...

Silverlight application for iPad

Hi All, I want to write silverlight application for iPad device. Is that possible? i have searched on google but not getting exactly. Need proper guidance on it. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks ...

Package Manager Web UI Workflow: Does something for this exist?

NOTE: Unsure if this belongs on Server Fault at this stage... please move as necessary! I'm working on a project that has its own package management software and have come to a stage where I need a centralised and simple mechanism for creating new packages in a master repository. The following are my requirements: Front-facing web UI...

How do I get an web application deveopment intern?

I was wondering if anyone knew the easiest way for a start up company to get interns. With limited resources it is the start up companies that need these internships the most. I read several articles on internships and most advise to choose smaller start up companies to intern at. I was wondering how to attract and obtain such interns. ...

Security in Mobile Web Application on Low end mobile browsers

There are a couple of related questions, but I want to ask specifically for low end browsers. We have an existing .NET MVC 2 web application and would like a scaled back, simple web interface to some of its functionality. As we are based in Africa we are targeting a wide range of very basic mobile browsers (ie not just Iphones, Android ...

How to WEB 2.0 sites get first few members ?

How to WEB 2.0 sites get first few members, like a new site comes up for "discussing books" or "renting apartments" or any thing for that matter. So if some marketing is able to pull in some visitors, all first few visitors will see blank data bases no existing info offered. wont they carry a bad name and never come back again ... ?? ...

HTML table with fixed headers and a fixed first column for the iPhone

All, I'm working on a web app that's optimized for an iPhone. On one of the pages, I'll have a table with hundreds of rows, and dozens of columns. I'd like to have it work so that the first column is fixed (remains visible) as the user scrolls to the right, and the headers are fixed as the user scrolls down (i.e., like "freeze panes" ...

Running a PIL based Python program as a web application

I have created a Python Program that converts strings into images at run time , using PIL's Image Draw module. I want to run this program interfaced with a simple web form that should display a text field to input the string and on pressing a button , it should display the string converted as an image. Would be a great deal of help if...

Mitigating the 'firesheep' attack in the application layer?

What methodologies do people recommend for mitigating the 'Firesheep' method for website applications? We have thought about this and from a usability perspective, other than encrypting all traffic to a site, mitigating the attack can be somewhat of a problem for web developers. One suggestion we came up with was to use path based cook...

Encode/obfuscate HTTP parameters.

We are currently working on a very simple Webapp, and we would like to "obfuscate" ( what would be the right term? ) or encode somehow the request parameter, so we can reduce the chance an idle user from sending arbitrarily data. For instance, the url looks like /webapp?user=Oscar&count=3 We would like to have somthing like: /webapp...

Implement a Web based Client that interacts with a TCP Server.

EDIT:Question Updated. Thanks Slott. I have a TCP Server in Python. It is a server with asynchronous behaviour. . The message format is Binary Data. Currently I have a python client that interacts with the code. What I want to be able to do eventually implement a Web based Front End to this client. I just wanted to know , what ...

What would make you try (or not try) a new programming language?

I've been designing a pragmatic programming language for 5 or so years, and it probably won't be released for several more years (probably until after my current and next startups succeed or fail). In the mean time, I have two questions that may prove interesting: 1) What attributes of a new programming language could entice you try it...

Speech Recognition can be done through web Browser...?

How to implement Online Speech Recognition through a Web Browser Interface. Is it possible to implement this without using any Streaming Server (completely browser-based application)? Without building any own plug-ins, is it possible to implement Speech Recognition using Flash ... ...

Loading web application content through AJAX

I'm about to build a web application(not web presentation) which will load its content through AJAX (jQuery) into a specific div. There will be a menu above the div and when a user clicks on an item from the menu, the appropriate page will be loaded into the main div. I'd like to know if there are any cons and pros of choosing this patt...

Using NServiceBus in a Web Application

Hello, Another question on "Using NServiceBus with Asp.Net MVC 2" (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3668648/using-nservicebus-with-asp-net-mvc-2) thread. Udi has replied saying following method can be used if we really want to do it. var sync = Bus.Send<SomeMessage>(/*data*/) .Register((AsyncCallback)delegate(IAsyncResult...

How can I cache my dynamic iPhone webapp for working offline?

Hello, I am having an iPhone web app written in PHP and using the WebApp.Net framework. I would like to make this application work offline as well. As I understood I can not use the manifest tag of HTML5 because my files are PHP and not html. Or at least it didn't work with it and I don't know if I am in the right direction. Does anyon...

Application call authentication

Hello, my knowledge of flash and other web technologies isn't that good, but I was wondering, how do sites with their own API for applications (e.g. Facebook) authenticate calls from an application? I'm not really familiar with Facebook API, but Vkontakte (similar site) uses a secret key, session id and method parameters to generate a qu...

jQtouch + Phonegap: Document head setup

Hi there, I've recently built a webapp using jQTouch & packaged in PhoneGap (both latest versions). I'm now attempting to optimise the app, and was hoping to get some information on how to correctly setup the of the document. Currently I simply have the jQTouch javascript (no phonegap.js), and it seems to package and run ok on the ip...

compiler for my web site

Hi, I am planning to build an algorithm web site that compiles the c and other language programs. I want to know is there any readymade tools/libraries for that?. ...

Build an application

I want to build a application in codeignitor. Anybody, have any good ideas for something for me to build? ...