I'm writing an ASP.NET MVC application and I have a form where a user can enter one or more part numbers that they used to fix a problem. Most of the time they know the part number and can just type it in. Occasionally, however, they need some extra help. The part number table has over 50,000 items in it which is way too big for a d...
What have you guys found to good approaches to developing web applications? For example, do you start with the user interface and then begin adding function? Do you focus on a single resource and code everything around it before moving on to the next? Or do you go layer by layer, starting with the model/DB layer and building up? I'm wo...
I'm looking for any hints on recommended, or simply tried and tested, ways of associating data with an anonymous user in a web application. I want the data to be available to users across multiple sessions, so therefore store it in the database. Obviously I will need some kind of cookie to identify that user, what I'm particularly inter...
Hi All, I am having a .NET based Web Application. I am tracking total time between request and response using "Fiddler" tool. For the same page on local machine page takes 4sec to load (2 sec on server , 1 sec for some js n css file and 1 sec for rendering) but when same is opened on client machine by doing RDC(Remote Desktop Connection...
Hi all, I have a JSF frontend to a webapp served via tomcat. I want to be able to 'branch' to a page external to the web-app then have that page branch back to the original JSF page. Complications are that (1) occasionally a reasonably large chunk of data needs to be passed back and forth; and (2) the url of the external page is dynamic...
Which is the best Java memcached client, and why? ...
I am trying to understand the technical limits to the usability of web-based productivity applications that use only open, cross-platform technologies such as Javascript, HTML, and CSS on the client. [1] Let's assume for a moment that in the next few years the capabilities of web browsers continue to improve (e.g. with HTML 5 and faster...
I am working on a project and am woundering how I could build an installer for it. Since I wanted it to be very easy to use I need to take a look at other cool installers. What are the coolest you have seen? I took a look at Woltlab burning boards installer. The installer should later run on windows, linux and mac so bascially I was ...
I have an ASP.NET 3.5 Website (visual studio lingo), but the site continues to grow and is looking rather cowboyish among other things. I'd like to see this get converted into a Web Application (namespaces and all). Is this something that can be easily done in Visual Studio? If not, are there any other tools out there that could creat...
Our client wants us to build a web-based, rich internet application for gathering software requirements. Basically it's a web-based case tool that follows a specific process for getting requirements from stakeholders. I'm the project manager and we're still in the early phases of the project. I've been thinking about using formal meth...
Hello all, I have a web application (.NET, if it matters) where when one of the pages is loaded, a file on the users local machine needs to be copied (uploaded) to the webserver. This upload needs to be without user intervention. This web application will be running on a kiosk where I would be setting up the original permissions and t...
I have created an application (a web-based application) which now has a large number of associations. Simply put, an Account: has many Users has Settings has many Projects Similarly a Project: has many Items A User: has many Tasks And so on, with loads more associations. Nothing particularly unusual about that I hope. I chose...
Background: I'm building a poetry site with user submitted content. The relevant user actions for my questions are that users can: a. Go to fancysitename.com/view to see all poems so far b. Go to fancysitename.com/submit to submit your own poem. c. Go to fancysitename.com/apoemid to view a particular poem you've bookmarked befo...
Now that Google allows Java on App Engine, I'm wondering what effect this has on a choice of web framework for App Engine. I realize Google provides the webapp framework which is pretty barebones. And the .96 version of django that's available for App Engine is restrictive. web2py burns up resources, from what I've heard. Rails (now a...
Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to capture details from the web page that a user previously visited, if my page was not linked from it? What I am trying to achieve is to allow users to my site to find a page they like while browsing the web, and then navigate to a page on my site via a bookmark, which will add the URL (and possibly ...
I need to add survey capability to my social website so that each user is able to create and manage their own surveys/polls etc. Can anyone recommend any existing application for this? PHP-MySQL combo preferred. ...
I have an application server, a database server and a file server, with the file server has its own subdomain name (i.e., file.myexample.com) The file server stores all the images that are used in the application, the point is that I don't want the user to view those images without obtaining proper authentication first. So in a sense th...
For the past time I have been working on a Zend Framework based webshop application that we are building from scratch. The application has been successfully been set up for several clients, but we are stumbling upon more and more problems regarding extensibility and modularity of the application. A lot of clients require a lot of differ...
Does anyone know the best lightweight Rails benchmarking tool? I need to get performance statistics of the webserver and simulate authentication + page navigation per session. I've been trying to use httperf, but been encountering TamperingWithCookie exception in the application. Ideally, I'd like to separate the application and databa...
Ok...before you balk at the title, I know it is very cliche but I used the term Web 2.0 because it will help you understand what I am trying to do - i.e. I want to build a company that builds web applications, or desktop applications that interact with 'the cloud', or some derivative thereof. So the question is, where can I learn all th...