web-applications

Do you know a free or open source website spell-checker?

We are looking for a free to use website software for spell checking our sites before they go to production. A basic search online took me to these pages: Net MECHANIC Text Trust Orango I did the trial in NetMechanic and I got a bogus email with no result and encouraging me to buy their paid subscription. Any suggest...

Is releasing a web app that only supports three browsers ill advised?

Some Background information We have developed the application against the two most popular standards compliant browsers - Firefox 3 and Safari 3, then made necessary fixes for IE 7 We have used the HTML 4.01 Strict DOCTYPE Firefox 3, Safari 3 & IE 7 will cover 85% of our target audience -- according to Urchin stats during a brief AdWo...

Is there a way to get the offset of the selected text within an input box in IE?

In Firefox, you can simply call: myInputTextField.selectionStart or myInputTextField.selectionEnd to get the first and last indices of the selected text in the input box. In IE, I know that you can call document.selection.createRange() to fiddle with the selection a little bit. For the life of me, however, I have not found any value ...

How do I configure Struts 2 with Tomcat 6?

Can anyone help me to configure struts 2.0.14 (I'm using tomcat 6.0). I want to know what is the procedure to build my first application in struts. Also tell me how xml is used to build a struts application. I have tried and tired of Google and that's why I'm here. Please suggest me some nice tutorial for struts out of your own experienc...

How should I integrate two PHP applications - via common code, REST, RPC?

I work on two related web applications, developed in PHP, that started independently. Over time, we have started to more tightly integrate their functionality for business reasons. To accomplish this, we setup a directory for common code in a seperate SVN repository so that we can deploy different versions of this code when we deploy e...

How do I accurately determine the location of a visitor to my website?

I need a consistent and reliable way to determine the location (state/province, country, etc) of a computer that visits my website, using any of the following: PHP JavaScript MySQL Any Web Services Something I haven't thought of? I'm am not looking for a locked-out 3rd party stats program such as Google Analytics. It's already in us...

Can I built an Intranet Web Application Without the need for Internet?

I recently approached by a company that does not require internet at all but they wanted a network application to facilitate their production. Is it possible to meet their requirement without the need of internet? ...

How do you handle multiple web.config files for multiple environments?

The way I currently handle this is by having multiple config files such as: web.config web.Prod.config web.QA.config web.Dev.config When the project gets deployed to the different environments I just rename the corresponding file with the correct settings. Anyone have suggestions on how to handle this better? EDIT: Here are some of ...

How to integrate my Web Application with Skype, Gtalk of another IM system?

I want to be able to send reminders to my users, using their IM system of choice, very much like Remember The Milk does when it sends notifications. How can I do that? Additional INFO: I develop in ASP.Net, SQL Server 2008 and Windows 2008 ...

Off-the-shelf Web-based Service Management Software

Does anyone know of any software designed to make it easy to create an in-the-cloud application manager? I figure I want something that I point at a database, define field names, validation and ACLs, then put those fields on widgets and the widgets on tabs and the tabs on pages and it will all just work. Surely there's something out th...

Problems deploying a web application

I am trying to deploy a web application to a remote server over which i have no control. If I use FTP deployment from visual studio, I manage to get the files onto the server, but when I point my browser to the server, it gives me the standand error page: Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application...

Facebook App, Iframe Worries (URL problem)

I'm making an app on facebook and have chosen iframe instead of FBML. The problem i'm facing is linking to various other pages of the app. Suppose that I've hosted my app here http://fbapp.mysite.com and I want to link http://fbapp.mysite.com/page1, how should I do that inside the iframe? Linking directly to fbapp.mysite.com/page1 just r...

Usability issues in filling out/saving a form in a web application

I develop a web application used internally at a mortgage company. We've been having problems with people filling out a form while talking with a customer and then clicking away from the screen before hitting Save, thus losing their data (they could just click Back, of course, but they never think of this). Our users' first "solution" w...

Making forms in Rails

So far I've built a simple form for a user using the form_for method to wrap around my user model. But if I'm going to create a form now which doesn't doesn't map directly to any particular model, should I still be using form_for? ...

Whats the best CMS/Website Starter kit for my project?

I need to build a company profile website, which will contain a gallery of images which this company designed before, and will contain the normal stuff, such as about us, contact us, menus for fast navigation, and also need to give this company a way to edit the site them selves, so which CMS/Website template you recommend for me? -Free ...

Web Application - User Authentication Across Domains

A client of ours has approached us to develop an application, and as usual the scope grows day by day. Initially it started as a dedicated app confined within their corporate network. User Authentication was established by aquiring the user's Windows login and using a SQLServer Database to host the access rights. All quite straight fo...

How do you serve a file without leaving the page?

Aims I'm trying to let users download a file (myfile.zip in this case) by clicking a button on the page, without them leaving the page - ie the browser must stay on the current page, and leave them in a position where they can continue to use the page, including clicking the button again (should they wish to get a new copy of the file)...

Alternatives to Web-Application?

Suppose you've got a customer who wants an application that has its data centralized stored and maintained, users can connect to it (but can also have data locally stored) and work with it and not using a browser to view and modify the data. Furthermore the application itself should also be centralized maintained. So no traditional web-...

Gridview like display for hibernate objects in Java?

Essentially what I am looking for is a good way to build a quick database interface. In my (limited) experience with ASP.net I've used a Gridview control for this task. However for this project I am going to be using Java. Can anyone recommend a good way to set up a Gridview like control (with editable and sortable rows) in a Java web f...

Multiple Apps on one JBoss Instance

I am trying to find out if it is possible to configure One instance of JBOSS to run multiple apps. Each application serve on a different port and I hope JBoss has this capability? ...