web-applications

SVN Website Development and Deployment Solution

Here is the situation: we have multiple developers with varying degrees of commandline experience and we are putting together a deployment solution for our websites. The production environment is 2 SUSE Linux boxes. The development environment is a SUSE Linux box as well. Each developer has/will have a copy of the SVN tree in their h...

Multiple Virtual Directories pointed to the same folder on web server

I have a presentation web farm with four load-balanced servers. I have one web application with two website domains that represent that application. Rather than constantly push to two different folder locations, I figured I can push to one location and have a virtual directory on each website point to the single folder on the webserver. ...

Web.Config file and Linq to Sql changing its place

I'm having a strange issue with my project. It was a Web Site that is now converted to a Web Application that is in a solution. Initially classes were setup using Linq to Sql .dbml file, which stored its connection string in /MyProject/web.config. Now the project ('Web Application') is in a solution and when I modify the Linq to Sql d...

Is Pylons enterprise-ready?

I am a developer who is looking for an Enterprise-ready web application framework for Python. My main concern is long-term support, extensive feature set and reliability. I have been experimenting with Pylons and after my horrendous experience with Ruby on Rails on Windows where I even had to compile my own Postgres driver, Pylons and P...

BanBuilder Banned-Word List Generator - Would You Use It?

From http://banbuilder.com/: Why BanBuilder? BanBuilder is designed to allow you to customize your banned-words list, and is constantly evolving. As people find new ways around the banned words (using symbols instead of letters, for example), they get added to the database. And its all free! The idea sounds great, ...

Is it possible to build a web-based chat client without a socket-based framework?

I have heard that web-based chat clients tend to use networking frameworks such as the twisted framework. But would it be possible to build a web-based chat client without a networking framework - using only ajax connections? I would like to build a session-based one-to-one web chat client that uses sessions to indicate when a chat h...

Cross Domain Authentication

I am Curious about how cross domain authentication work? for example. To sign into Orkut.com you need to to sign in via Google.com. So the authentication happens at Google.com and it sets the cookie. So my question now is how does Orkut.com able to read this cookie or authenticate the user with no other information ? What can possibly g...

project steps in web application design/programming

Hi guys! I'm looking to start working on a web application and I'm almost done with the functional specification: Where do I go now? Do I begin work on creating the html and css? Do I begin creating the backend body of code? (setting up serverside email validation and database data-entry functions) Do I begin working on the client si...

Optional Entries: How do you Design for completion and reduced abandonment?

This is my first post on here though I read and browsed several questions. I am not sure if this has been asked before...Related Questions didn't seem to have anything with the GUI but optional parameters in language. Anyway, here are the question: Q) How do you design/develop a form with a few optional entries in the form? One option...

Integrating authentication between a web app and desktop app

Hi, I want to upload a file to a website via a desktop app and then take the user to the website. The website has a web service, but requires authentication as does the web site. Is there a way to do this without forcing the user to authenticate twice (once in the desktop app and once in the web browser)? Unfortunately, you can't prefi...

Writing a web application in excel? Why not?

Before you start flaming, I'm going to tell you that I am trying to convince myself that this is a bad idea. Basically, I'm trying to create a website with some basic accounting functions. My friend, a consultant who only knows excel, asked if this could be an excel spreadsheet instead of a web interface. I found myself thinking, why i...

Getting to know a new web-system that you have to work on/extend

Hey! I am going to start working on a website that has already been built by someone else. The main script was bought and then adjusted by the lead programmer. The lead has left and I am the only programmer. Never met the lead and there are no papers, documentation or comments in the code to help me out, also there are many functions ...

Sign in form and register form

Nowadays we see websites with login form/register form in the home page itself (to reduce number of clicks). do ya like it ( if yes why) / do ya feel its a good design specially if the application is integrated with third party components using single sign on ...

What software / tools / services do you use to manage users on your site? Registration, payment, mailing list. Is there a good package for everything?

Hi all, I am scoping out what we need from a user management solution and wondering if anyone knows of a good provider of a service that would be able to : securely manage user registration and logins to our site receive payments and handle billing, reminders for recurring payments etc handle forgotten passwords, handle support ticket...

How can I write a Perl web app that supports CGI, FastCGI and mod_perl?

How can I write a web application in Perl so that it can work as plain CGI script, as FastCGI / FCGI script, and from mod_perl / mod_perl2 (preferably using only core Perl modules and those from libwww-Perl, and minimizing number of Perl CPAN modules one has to install)? I'd like to minimize changes one has to do to change script from u...

WebApps: Avoid Timeout when processing large amt of data

in web applications, how do i handle processing of large amounts of data that usually cause timeouts? eg. processing a db to output a large report? i usually use PHP/Zend Framework/MySQL. ...

XMLHttpRequest vs Socket vs some other approach

I read that XMLHttpRequests are best suited for content that has an update frequency of 30 seconds or more. The same article mentioned that web apps that needed a faster frequency should use a socket. I can't find the article/book that mentions this (If anybody can post links to articles that discuss this, I would appreciate it). Does...

Using Google Web Toolkit for desktop like web app?

Does gwt have (good) support for effects, moving around elements, and resizing them? Are there any possible limitations GWT might bring to the table? ...

Browse to a file directory and display its files in a listview

Hello fellow coders. Would anyone offer tips, links, code snippets on how to browse to a file folder from within an ASP.NET 3.5 web application and list the folder contents within a ListView? Regards, Rey R. [neophyte web application developer] ...

how can i run code when an application ends with asp.net mvc

how can i run code when an application ends with asp.net mvc ? ...