Hi All, Our project is a medium size web application developed using RAD 7.0 on WAS 6.1/hibernate/struts which moved to production. Currently we have hardcoded the ip address of the production system in the property file and database schema details in the hibernate config file. Our client wants us to come up with the solution for keep...
What are the disadvantages (if any) of using a virtual private server instead of a dedicated server to host my web application? I launching my first web application in a couple of months and I'm trying to wonder what's the best way to host it at an affordable price. It's built in ASP.Net and uses SQL Server Express. My point is, since...
Do you know a good book on this topic? I'm aiming for best practices, common pit falls. ...
I am building an intranet application, the requirement is to log in user without asking for credentials with the windows credentials he has logged on to computer, user if wants can logout from application and log in using the windows credentials pop up. ...
What's an easy way for our small workgroup to write status notes (length: a sentence to couple paragraphs) that can then be filtered by date range, sorted by project, and grouped by category to prepare monthly and annual group reports as editable documents? Would like to find (or slightly modify) an existing web or non-web app, but Saa...
I have a Perl app that runs some perforce operations, in the end I would like it to upload the results to SharePoint website. What is the simplest Perl script that can accomplish a task of adding a document to SharePoint? The script would need to run on Solaris and use as few as possible external libraries as possible (definetely pur...
I am deploying my Java application with Ant. Unfortunately my test deployment on the local machine doesn't work because of Vista. The Program Files directionaries are protected and i don't want to start Ant or Eclipse as an Admin. So i had the idea to move my webapps folder to a workspace subfolder, so i can use relative paths in Ant as ...
We are finishing up our web application and planning for deployment. Very important aspect of deployment to production is monitoring the health of the system. Having a small team of developers/support makes it very critical for us to get the early notifications of potential problems and resolve them before they have impact on users. Usi...
I dislike it when I lose the session state of my ASP.NET web app when changing code. Losing the session state means I have to log in over and over again. It's annoying. Is there anyway I can reconfigure my app so that I can make changes to code and not have to re-authenticate to view those changes? (I know that changing .ASPX files do...
And what would you recommend for an ASP Net web application, with a not so large SQL server database (around 10Gb)? I was just wondering, is that a good idea to have an Amazon EC2 instance configured ready to host your app in an emergency? In this scenario, what would be the best approach to keep the database updated (log shipping? man...
On the intranet at my part time job (not IT related) there are various web applications that we use that do not require logging in explicitly. We are required to login to Windows obviously, and that then authenticates us some how. I'm wondering how this is done? Without worrying about security TOO much, how would I go about authenticati...
From my experience, one of the bigger problems we come across during our webdevelopment process is keeping different setups updated and secure across different servers. My company has it's own CMS which is currently installed across 100+ servers. At the moment, we use a hack-ish FTP-based approach, combined with upgrade scripts at spec...
Hello. I've inherited a Ruby on Rails application that has a problem. I'm half way through some books on Rails, but haven't seen the answer to some questions yet. What is the best way to backup the application? Can I just tar -cvzf app.tgz app? I don't know yet if the app has a sqlite3 database or connects to a db server. What's the b...
We are releasing a paid web application. We have Google Analytics and want to set up conversion goals to see who signs up on the various accounts. I.e. what demographic is buying the highest plan, etc. The problem is that Google Analytics assumes that it is tracking a single domain, and our application operates on several sub-domains (si...
We have a web application that uses AJAX to talk to an ASP.NET web service. We would like to write another version that can be used offline. We need to be able to re-use our existing code as much as possible. What approaches should we consider? ...
I'm looking forward to hear some suggestions for choosing the "right" language (and modules?) to realize a 1-man web project (LAMP only, complexity somewhere between a guestbook and a fully fledged blog, developed for high traffic sites with 50,000+ impressions per day) based on these requirements: Output cache (think: Wordpress Super-...
What is your must have defence methods to common web attacks like XSS, Sql Injection, Denial of Service, etc. ? Edit : I collected your responses under descriptions from Wikipedia. And I add some extra questions to have a complete reference. Sql Injection SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a security ...
My hosting service does not currently run/allow svn, git, cvs on their server. I would really like to be able to 'sync' my current source on my development machine with my production server. I am looking for a pure php/python/ruby version control system (not just a client for a version control system) that does not require any services...
How do I benchmark the performance of my web applications? Is there a way to find out the bottlenecks in a web application? EDIT: I am not asking about any front end tweaks like images, css etc. What I want to know is how to profile the back end of the application so that I will know which methods/queries to modify to increase the perf...