web-applications

Web based script to determine system information

I know web based scripts can be used to identify the charactertics of vistors (display resolution, Java version, OS, architecture, render engine, etc) But is there anything that could give me amount of system memory resident on the vistors PC? ...

AJAX or a server side framework?

I am working with a friend on building a web site, in general this web site will be a custom web app along with a very custom social network type of thing.. Currently I have a mock-up site that uses simple PHP with AJAX and JSON and JQUERY and I love how it works, I love the way it all fits together. But for a mock-up I did not implemen...

SmartGWT TreeGrid Selection

I have a SmartGWT webapp that uses a TreeGrid with a dataSource. I would like this treeGrid to preselect values saved in a cookie. I have gotten the value to be saved in the cookie correctly, however I have tried several different methods of getting the treeGrid to select these values and I can not get it to work. I am attempting to do t...

Problem Converting Web To Web Project In VS2008

I have converted my old VS2008 Website to Web Application, now everything was working before I tried to convert it. But now I don't seem to be able to reference my Classes? For example I have a BasePage class that every .aspx page inherits like so public partial class SomePageName : BasePage { } But now I get this message? And the s...

In what scenario is stateful better than stateless for the web?

I have always advocated the stateless web, but would like to know what the advocates of the stateful web are saying. Do you have any situation where stateful is more appropriate than stateless? ...

Small World Theory implementation - like in XING

Some probably wont know what XING is: it is a online network community like linkedIn etc. You can add new contacts, manage these contacts, search for new etc. The whole application is done in Ruby and somewhat inspired by the small world theory, at least it is said so. There is one specific feature that I really cant imagine how it is...

Session ID not the same in my java ee application

Hi Ive written a application with a custom login system. And then written my own security filter for it which sets the area that can be accessed. Yet i always get redirected to the login page and then to the index page with is the logged in home page. I have discovered that the session ID is different from when i login to when i try to ...

Type of path best to use in web apps?

Following are the two ways of calling an image in your webb application. <img src="/myapp/img/world.gif" /> OR <img src="http://www.example.com/myapp/img/world.gif" /> Which will be best to use or both have the same meaning. If both do not have the same meaning then why? and is there any performance constraints if I use the second ...

Open source examples of well written SCM web interface in Perl

Can anyone point me to some good Open Source web interface for VCS (version control system) written in Perl? Something well written, so I can examine the code and steal the best parts (or organization) for gitweb. Preferably something without tons of external dependences not available in (extended) Perl core. ...

Is there an Appfuse equivalent for .net mvc apps? (An open source C# .net mvc project that eliminates the ramp up time when developing applications for new customers?)

I use Appfuse in Java to crank out a quick web app pre-configured with the front-end and backend frameworks of my choice. Appfuse used ANT or Maven to build a web application. Seeing as .net has equivalent frameworks & tools to Java, i.e. ANT and NANT, Hibernate and NHibernate, log4j and log4net, Spring and Spring.Net; Is there an eq...

Storing files for testbin/pastebin in Python

I'm basically trying to setup my own private pastebin where I can save html files on my private server to test and fool around - have some sort of textarea for the initial input, save the file, and after saving I'd like to be able to view all the files I saved. I'm trying to write this in python, just wondering what the most practical w...

how text-heavy websites store text internally?

Hi all, I wondering, how those "text-heavy" websites, like stackoverflow.com, news.yahoo.com, bbc.co.uk store their text internally? Are those texts stored as text files? or stored in database? How do they cope with the ever-increasing content? ...

when/where we need an API feature on our website?

When and where we use an API feature in our website? what are the advantages of APIs? How to write API's programs? Is there any reference for how to create API's? Or structure of API Applications? These are the general questions, please do let me know your thoughts about APIs. I think my question is clear for all :) thanks in adv...

Generating a 3D GUI through CGI

Hello, I'm implementing a web application that is written in C++ using CGI. Is it possible to use a 3D drawn GUI that also has animations? Should I just include some kind of mechanism that generates animated gifs and uses an image map? Is there another, more elegant way of doing this? EDIT: So it sums up to Java or Silverlight or Flash ...

How to modify attributes of forms generated by webapp (Google App Engine)?

Here are model and form classes from example: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/djangoforms.html class Item(db.Model): name = db.StringProperty() quantity = db.IntegerProperty(default=1) target_price = db.FloatProperty() priority = db.StringProperty(default='Medium',choices=[ 'High', 'Medium', 'Low']) entry_time =...

create pageContext from HttpServletRequest

I know this might sound crazy...but i am integrating with some third party api's and unfortunately they have a utility class which only takes a pageContext object..I did some peeking around and found that they are doing a lot of stuff with pageContext... Is there a way to get to or create a pageContext from HttpServeletRequest. ...

passing session to another web application

let say in tomcat application server we deployed 2 web applications , web application A, web application B. How to pro-grammatically sync session from web application A to web application B . In other words, as long as user login to web application A, he is already login to web application B. As well when he log out. ...

project manangement software chosing war - developers vs PM

Hello, We are constantly trying to find tools that helps us better manage our projects. But all the time we have a dilemma, we find some tools that are better as far as the developers are concerned, but suck as far as project managers. The best example is: as a developer the best choice would be TRAC as a Project manager i would go fo...

Including an embedded web server - possible issues with deployment.

While analyzing some approaches to making our web app easier to deploy on our customers' sites, one of the suggestions was to include an embeddable web server to save the customer from needing to configure/install Apache/IIS. What are some drawbacks to this approach? Specifically, what are the possible issues that we could come across ...

Running an ASP.NET Web Application on Apache with Mono

Hello: I have developed an ASP.NET web application that has the following files (after being published): Default.aspx, Web.config, .dll (in bin folder), .pdb (in bin folder), and an App_Data folder that currently has nothing in it. This application runs well in Visual Studio. My company uses Apache so the IT department decided to tr...