Designing a web application, how do you design the main page? By this I mean the page that is displayed to a user after entering the base url, like http://www.foo.com. It would probably depend on a website, but... stackoverflow welcomes us with list of questions, no silly what is stackoverflow landing page, last.fm prestens a kind of ...
What web technologies, like programming-languages, frameworks, libraries, ..etc, were used to develop a particular famous web-service, especially Web2.0s. For example, Ruby on Rails is used to develop: Odeo, A List Apart, Twitter, 43 Things. (Source1) (Source2) PHP is used to develop: Facebook, Photobucket, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Digg. (Sou...
Being pretty unfamiliar with design patterns and architecture, I'm having trouble explaining to others exactly how my latest application is designed. I've switched between thinking it's a pure n-tier, pure MVC and n-tier with MVC in the presentation layer. Currently I think the latter is correct, but I want thoughts from more experienced...
When using the MVC design pattern I usually try to make my view files as simple as possible. Therefore in my View I try not to have lots of code like this: if page title exists display page title else display 'default page title' end if Instead, in my Controller I might use code like this: if no page title is specified ...
After deployment on IIS 6 methods declared in Global.asax (for Application Start, etc.) are not executed. The same code on IIS 5 works properly. What can be the reason? Is it the problem with permissions/configuration? ...
We are currently having error message when we ping our site in FireFox: Reported Attack Site! This web site at www.xyz.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences. Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to a...
From few months ago when i was using twitter, i was able to send twitter a SMS and when i go home and check my twitter page, i see the SMS i sent is on the website as a tweet. "That was great" Now, i want to make the same in my website, so someone will send my website SMS as a command and my website will save this command in the db for ...
I have setup a nagios monitoring and configured check_http plugin to check for a specific URL in my application. That url returns either 'ok' or an error message. My nagios sends me an email when it detects something not 'ok'. However what I am getting is only "HTTP CRITICAL - string not found". What I would like to get in email is the ...
Possible Duplicate: Visual Studio - Prevent stopping debugging from closing Internet Explorer When I start debugging my web application in Visual Studio 2008, a new Internet Explorer window opens. When I finish debugging, that new window, along with all previously-open IE windows, will be closed. I'm tired of losing all open we...
Hi, We've been working on web application where in we need to implement traditional web-apps functionality of password retrieval. According to the trends there are approaches like.. Sending Password reset link to user's email. Asking Secret Question to the user for Password recovery. Resetting the existing Password and creating a new ...
In my web application I've to keep audit of the user actions. So whenever user takes an action I update the object on which action is taken and keep audit trail of that action. Now If I first modify the object and then update audit trail but the audit trail fails then what? Obviously I need to roll-back changes to modified object. I c...
I am looking for a third party applcation that can be use as a donation tool for website and has to be hosted on its own.... ...
I'm trying to implement something like Rails dynamic-finders in Python (for webapp/GAE). The dynamic finders work like this: Your Person has some fields: name, age and email. Suppose you want to find all the users whose name is "Robot". The Person class has a method called "find_by_name" that receives the name and returns the result...
How does one debug a FastCGI application? I've got an app that's dying but I can't figure out why, even though it's likely throwing a stack trace on stderr. Running it from the commandline results in an error saying: RuntimeError: No FastCGI Environment: 88 - Socket operation on non-socket How do I set up a 'FastCGI Environtment' f...
This is an internal web application where we would like the Web pages to contain links to several utilities that are Win32 EXE. The EXEs are trusted and produced by us. (don't care if it asks if its ok to Run or Save). I tried direct link (e.g. C:\notepad.exe) which works locally only. (This will be a share on the network). Tried File://...
when i use GET to retrieve and show information only, and Create, Update, Delete using POST, will my web app be automatically RESTful? ...
I'm aware of several Javascript frameworks that assist in creating webapps for the iPhone and ipod Touch: Joe Hewitt's iui -- http://code.google.com/p/iui/ Ciui -- A revised take on Joe's work by Vladimir Olexa of CNET -- http://code.google.com/p/ciui-dev/ WebApp -- by Chrilith. http://webapp.net.free.fr/ Unfortunately, he doesn't publ...
Hi, I have a Web application that is accessed via iframe, with user login. It does detect the user login and conforms accordingly. So how could I integrate the look and feel (or theme) of the parent page into the Web app? Thanks. ...
when the visitor goes to a webpage, how do we know the visitor is actually showing the page on top (instead of going to another tab or app already). also how do we know how long the user has read the page or how long the page stayed open? ...
In building a web application (not built on any specific framework) I'd like to build a "complete" set of tools for monitoring it. There are obviously some great tools out there for monitoring the DB or the Web Server, or App Server... but I'd like to build a dashboard that lets admin users monitor the overall health/status of the syste...