In a web application architecture with 1 app server (IIS) and 1 database server (MSSQL), if you had to pick one server to virtualize in a VM, which would it be: web or db? Generally speaking of course. ...
I am perceiving a trend that says you should pursue software appliances whenever you are extensively using open source as it provides a method to avoiding your customers ask how it was developed. If a customer sees that you are charging them a lot of money yet used lots of free open source then they will want to negotiate more deeply t...
Need to testcase a complex webapp which does some interacting with a remote 3rd party cgi based webservices. Iam planing to implement some of the 3rd party services in a dummy webserver, so that i have full controll about the testcases. Looking for a simple python http webserver or framework to emulate the 3rd party interface. ...
I'm currently working on a web application and the powers above have decided that overriding the browser's right-click menu with our own application-specific one is the way to go. I totally disagree. I feel that when someone is using a web browser they have certain expectations about what should happen when they use the right-click func...
I would like to read how to use caching effectively, optimize my database schema and queries, apply partitioning and load balancing. There are pretty much resources on optimizing code and low-level stuff but not the other. I've read Building Scalable Web Sites by Cal Henderson and besides a single chapter actually on scaling, which bar...
I'm so tired of having to learn yet another Java web framework every other day. JSP, Struts, Wicket, JSF, JBoss Seam, Spring MVC to name just a few - all this countless frameworks out there try to address the same issues. However, none of them really solves the fundamental problems - that's why there are still coming up more and more new...
I've been wondering if there are any best practices on structuring your Webforms web application ASP.Net architecture? I'm providing a mock structure of a web application I've been working on to allow the community to give me some feedback. c:\DEV\Code\TheCompany\Core\ (Contains data and business layer dlls) C:\DEV\Code\TheCompany\Cor...
To cut a long story short: As part of an online database access system I'm writing I want to use the new BLOB access features in SQL 2008 - this means I have to use Windows Authentication when logging into the SQL Server; however due to it's very nature the website front end to all this uses Forms authentication with the membership data ...
Recently I just got assigned a project to develop a web application/site that uses the full capacity of Silverlight 3.0. I am a beginner in web development and so far I am more of a software engineer guy rather than messing stuff with web development. However, I am really excited for this new experience as I feel that I can explore mor...
I have a program and it works well with debug="true" in web.config. When i want to get the good version i put debug="false". When i open 2 (or 3 or 4, it's aleatory) selection window (pop windows) i have a timeout error. I have read if debug is true property is not taken into account. But i have set this value to "900" and the error pe...
I have been asked to give a metric as to the size of a corporate application. The application in question is a web based application and I am not sure how to quantify its size. Obvious but not useful metrics would be lines of code, number of files etc. What are some suggested means of determining the size of an application that will prov...
I have a peculiar problem with Log4j. We are deploying on Weblogic 10 using log4j.xml. That works fine. We figured a way to run Tomcat 6 in such a way that we can develop on this platform and deploy on Weblogic 10. I have figured out how to make log4j.properies work with Tomcat 6 with additional JArs that use the JULI logging mechanism ...
Are there any better web languages for a web app that is designed to handle user-submitted images? Essentially a web app that will accept user submitted pictures and be able to create albums, etc. All the features of a Flickr or Facebook Pics. Aside from languages, is there anything else that might be different for a web app designed t...
I have the following simulation in C for cars in a traffic circle For example, 7 <space> <enter> gives more cars to the simulation, while s1 <enter> puts a top sign to the incoming road #1. I want to put the simulation to an internet page such that users can try it. However, I do not know where I should start. I know Joomla a...
I have a Django application that I would like to deploy to the desktop. I have read a little on this and see that one way is to use freeze. I have used this with varying success in the past for Python applications, but am not convinced it is the best approach for a Django application. My questions are: what are some successful methods ...
Hi all, We have a problem in accessing content on a mapped network drive. We have a web application running on weblogic 8.1 on (Windows 2000 NT). The application retreives images from a mapped network drive and displays. Now we are moving our application onto a virtual machine (Windows 2003 SP1) hosted on Weblogic 10.3. But on this ...
Hello. I want to implement test feedback in my web application in the following manner - when a user with testing privileges logs in, every page in the web app will open small feedback window and dock it to the corner. Testers can use this window to describe the issue, and eventually add attachments. On confirmation, the module saves th...
What is a reasonable, efficient, and fair method to calculate page views? For example, how does Stack Overflow compute question views? I thought that Stack Overflow computes views per registered user. However, this question has 198,000 views and there are 56,000 registered users in Stack Overflow (go to users page, 1604 pages, 35 users...
I am looking for solution where users of register websites with us can access our application without explicit login into our application. Websites owner will register with us to access our application User will login into their website and see link of our website to access it. Once user click on the link user will able to access it....
I have a client with a .Net 1.0 web app that uses IIS and a SQL 2000 database. It is hosted with a shared hosting service and does get not much traffic (a few visitors a day tops). The hosting has occasional downtime, of course, and the client has asked me if I can setup a redundant system to reduce downtime to negligible. What is the s...