We are a small team of 4 developers working on a web application. We use trac+svn on a shared server for version control and ticketing and we are happy and satisfied with this. The same shared server also hosts our web application. The application itself is a Perl CGI application that uses CGI::Application and a moderate number of standa...
For example I've often wanted to search stackoverflow with SELECT whatever FROM questions WHERE views * N + votes * M > answers AND NOT(answered) ORDER BY views; or something like that. Is there any reasonable way to allow users to use SQL as a search/filter language? I see a few problems with it: Accessing/changing stuff (a c...
I'm looking for a 3D graphics library for a Java web app. Could use some recommendations - only open source, though. Edit: I don't really care how the graphics are output - Javascript/applets/canvas/flash but I want to write the graphics logic in Java. ...
I've got a solution with WinForms and an ASP.NET application. My startup project is WinForms but every time I run the project it starts the ASP.NET Webserver even though I don't want to use it. I looked into everywhere in "Property Pages" and couldn't find an option to stop this. Also it's not possible to unload the project without rem...
We currently facing some stability issues with our develop web application product. This product was built in part by our partner contractor, and we want to have a good standard metric for stability. The issues we have been facing is constant crashing. The web application is unable to identify when there are more request than it can h...
I have a form in which the user selects a few items to display on "the following page". This selection is always unique, and we will store each set of selections made using a model, indexed by the id as is par with Django models. When the user selects her choices and POSTs using the submit button, I would like for our application to stor...
What are the strategies and tools to be used, if an Application that is being developed needs to have Web Client and Smart client. Does Smart Client Software Factory or related applications blocks ease such developmental path? The environment is .Net 3.5 Please suggest me the direction based on these priorities 1. Reuse of code 2. Devel...
What is your favourite tool for impact analysis? Especially in the the context of web-applications where an IDE cannot always help you considering that your code references might be in at least 4 languages (java, jsp, velocity templates, javascript, html and the ominous xml). Thus far I've managed with find and grep are there any bette...
Our company is facing some difficulties with our CMS web application. This application was part-built by a contractor and we have been confronting some stability issues (crashing, having to put them in front of load balancers or caching mechanisms) when we think the application should be able to handle it. We put together a minimal sta...
Assume you have two web applications running in two different tabs/windows in your browser. Is there a predefined interface in IE, Firefox or Google Chrome to pass data between the two windows? If so it should be possible to implement drag'n drop, right? Because I don't think this is possible I wonder if the same could be achieved with F...
We are in the process of using SVN on a project that has a core and modules. We want module development to be separate from the core, but the modules will be inside of the core files. My question is this: How would you set up the repositories to manage something like this? Would you make all of your modules into their own repositories...
Assuming I want to sell a hardware appliance with only my software on it, what do I need to do? Where can I find the hardware? How can I remote into the machine to fix things if I need to? Google used to do this with the search appliance (don't know if they still do). VMWare should have a website like cafepress where you upload a l...
Is it posible to notify user that session has expired? Can browser act as server and receive such notifications? One solution would be to generate JavaScript that does countdown on client side and notifies client in the end, but I am iterested if it is postible to do it the first way? And what are the consequences of first approach? A...
I'm developing software on google app engine. I'm using the webapp framework. is there any way to avoid hard-coding urls in the html templates? django provides a solution, but I couldn't find one for webapp. thanks in advance.. ...
I often come across web applications that expose internal database primary keys through forms like select boxes. And occasionally I see javascript matching against an int or guid magic value that switches the logic. Is is a best practice to avoid leaking all internal identifiers of rows in your web application to prevent outsiders from...
I created a JApplet using Netbeans 6.5.1 that accesses a database. When the program is run by itself, it runs perfectly. The issue is when you try to put it online using a web application in Netbeans, it will not access the database. I was told by somebody that the problem is that Java security will not allow you to do this. Is this ...
We're replacing a static web-site with a Django app. All the uri's will change. The current web-site has a substantial presence on the search engine rankings and we don't want to mess that up too much. Is it simply a case of setting up 301 redirects to the new uri's, or is there something more subtle we need to do to ensure the searc...
I'm trying to build a website that provides a login for users. Once these users login, they will be able to perform functions that will likely query a database. At some point I will need to add/modify/delete contents in the database and I'm wondering how I would be able create a page on the website that I'd only have access to. Ideally I...
Now that Java has allowed multiple additional languages to run on top of Google App Engine, which of the newly available languages would allow an app to be developed the most simply and concisely? Let's assume most people are aware of Ruby on Rails, PHP, Coldfusion and Python/Django and we can take for granted that these are pretty simpl...
I have looked at pipebytes.com and want to replicate how they send files and integrate it into one of my applications. Since I live in Europe where no software patents apply (as far as I know), do I have to worry at all? ...