Any personal experience in overcoming web application performance hurdles? Any recommended strategies for improving the performance of a data-driven web application? My development team works on a web application (JSP reports, HTML, JavaScript) that uses an Oracle database (PL/SQL). The key functionality the application delivers is ...
Did you ever have to choose between WISA or LAMP at the beginning of a web project? While pros and cons are littered around the net, it would be helpful to know about your real experience in coming up w/ criteria, evaluating, deciding, and reflecting upon your decision to go w/ either platform. ...
I am thinking about providing the version of say, the database schema, and the dlls for business logic in the footer of my web application. Is this advised? Are there any pitfalls, or pointers of how to do this best? Usability concerns? I already have a version scheme, for both schema and dlls, used in my CI solution. ...
I was wondering if I could access the iPhones Core Location framework over a website? My goal is to build a webapp/website that the iPhone would browse to, then upload its current GPS location. This would be a simple site primary for friends/family so we could locate each other. I can have them manually enter lng/lat but its not the eas...
When desinging UI for mobile apps in general which resolution could be considered safe as a general rule of thumb. My interest lies specifically in web based apps. The iPhone has a pretty high resolution for a hand held, and the Nokia E Series seem to oriented differently. Is 240×320 still considered safe? ...
I am charged with designing a web application that displays very large geographical data. And one of the requirements is that it should be optimized so the PC still on dial-ups common in the suburbs of my country could use it as well. Now I am permitted to use Flash and/or Silverlight if that will help with the limited development time ...
There is a conversion process that is needed when migrating Visual Studio 2005 web site to Visual Studio 2008 web application projects. It looks like VS2008 is creating a .designer. file for every aspx when you right click on a file or the project itself in Solution Explorer and select 'Convert to Web Application.' What is the purpose ...
I have a web application that needs to read (and possibly write) files from a network share. I was wondering what the best way to do this would be? I can't give the network service or aspnet accounts access to the network share. I could possibly use impersonation. The network share and the web application are both hosted on the same do...
I run a game and the running is done by hand, I have a few scripts that help me but essentially it's me doing the work. I am at the moment working on web app that will allow the users to input directly some of their game actions and thus save me a lot of work. The problem is that I'm one man working on a moderately sized (upwards of 20 ...
I'm trying to create web applications that use Javascript. I'd like to be able to use animation in these applications. I've tried to use basic Javascript, but I've decided that the best thing to do is to use a library (such as YUI or JQuery). I'm running into a problem. On Safari, when I run animation scripts, the animation is very c...
I've noticed that some sites (usually banks) suppress the ability to paste text into text fields. How is this done? I know that JavaScript can be used to swallow the keyboard shortcut for paste, but what about the right-click menu item? ...
I am aware of Capistrano but it is a bit too heavyweight for me. Personally I set up two Mercurial repositories, one on the production server and another on my local dev machine. Regularly, when a new feature is ready, I push changes from repository on my local machine to repository on the server, then update on the server. This is prett...
I am in a position where I can choose the client browser for my web app. The app is being used internally, and we are installing each client "manually".I would like to find a better solution for the browser,so : What is a good browser that I can use as a client to a web application? General functionalities I would like to have: openi...
I've worked on several desktop application projects, however whenever I'm faced with a web application project, I don't know where to begin. I have a grasp of the technologies I need to build an app - Rails, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, various SQL databases - but when it comes to actually building the app, it feels like I'm always stuck....
Typically I develop my websites on trunk, then merge changes to a testing branch where they are put on a 'beta' website, and then finally they are merged onto a live branch and put onto the live website. With a Facebook application things are a bit tricky. As you can't view a Facebook application through a normal web browser (it has to ...
A friend of mine is now building a web application with J2EE and Struts, and it's going to be prepared to display pages in several languages. I was told that the best way to support a multi-language site is to use a properties file where you store all the strings of your pages, something like: welcome.english = "Welcome!" welcome.spani...
Some web applications, like Google Docs, store data generated by the users. Data that can only be read by its owner. Or maybe not? As far as I know, this data is stored as is in a remote database. So, if anybody with enough privileges in the remote system (a sysadmin, for instance) can lurk my data, my privacy could get compromised. Wh...
I have a file which is an XML representation of some data that is taken from a Web service and cached locally within a Web Application. The idea being is that this data is very static, but just might change. So I have set it up to cache to a file, and stuck a monitor against it to check if it has been deleted. Once deleted, the file will...
I am about to start testing an intranet web application. Specifically, I have to determine the application's performance. Please could somone suggest formal/informal standards for how I can judge the application's performance. ...
I searched for this subject on Google and got some website about an expert sexchange...so I figured I should just ask here instead. How do you embed a JApplet in html on a webpage? ...