We are beginning to go down the path of mobile browser support for an enterprise e-commerce webapp (Java/Servlet based). Of course there are many decisions to be made, but it seems to me the cornerstone is to be able to reliably detect mobile browsers, and make decisions on the content to be returned accordingly. Is there a standard wa...
I'm setting up a server to offer JIRA and SVN. I figure, I'll use LDAP to keep the identity management simple. So, before I write one.... is there a good app out there to let users change their ldap password? I want something that lets a user authenticate with ldap and update their password. A form with username, old password, new...
There are lots of web application frameworks available these days, for pretty much every language out there. In your experience, what are their strengths, weaknesses, and unique features? Assuming the luxury of choice, what factors would lead you to consider one over another other? I'm most interested in people's direct experience wit...
I often have nothing more than an FTP access to a server on which the application is placed. What I usually use now is "Keeping remote directory up to date" feature of WinSCP. Files of the local copy (in theory at least) keep being uploaded to a remote server as soon as they get saved and then all I need is to refresh a page in a browse...
The heart of any good web app is it's offline capability and JavaScript functionality. Currently what tools and wrappers are availability for the desktop web app maker to cross over to the mobile market? What would be the necessary read ups for such a team? Clarifications: I am searching for information on how much offline capabilities ...
It seems that most of the installers for Perl are centered around installing Perl modules, not applications. Things like ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build are very well suited for modules, but require some additional work for Web Apps. Ideally it would be nice to be able to do the following after checking out the source from the re...
I tried GNUBOX which use bluetooth to connect to my computer then to the internet. It's very painful to set up (under windows more than under linux, but it's still painful, it works 1 time on 3). I own a Nokia 6630 so there is no WLAN support. Is there any emulator? I'd need to know something like max width, max height ect... usability...
At the moment I use PHP for almost everything I develop for the Web but its linguistic limitations are starting to annoy me. However, as I developed some practices and maintain some PHP libraries that help me a lot, I don't feel I'd be ready to just switch to LISP throwing away all my PHP output. It could even be impossible on the server...
Q.: How to get a cellular phone SMS "Long code" for use by U.S. carrier subscribers within U.S.? Background: I'm building a web app that receives queries from/sends answers to cell phones. The app design (and business model) expects to communicate with cell devices via SMS, addressing the web app via an SMS "Long code" (VMN or MSISDN). ...
Q.: What web app architecture works well receiving/sending SMS text messages? By "architecture, I mean specific architecture, not generally, such as MVC. Background: I'm building a web app that receives queries from/sends answers to cell phones. The app design (and business model) expects to communicate with cell devices via SMS text me...
Several frameworks for writing web-based desktop-like applications have recently appeared. E.g. SproutCore and Cappuccino. Do you have any experience using them? What's your impression? Did I miss some other framework? I've seen related questions on StackOverflow, but they generate mostly standard answers like "use jQuery or MochiKit or...
I'm doing a webapp and need a backup plan. Here's what I've got so far: nightly encrypted backup of the SQL database to Amazon S3 and my external drive (incremental if possible, not overly familiar with PostgreSQL yet, but that's another thread) nightly backup of my Mercurial repo (which includes Apache configs, deploy scripts, etc) t...
I fill a collection one single time when my J2EE webapp starts. Then, several thread may access it at same time but only to read it. I know using a synchronized collection is mandatory for parallels write but do I still need it for parallels read ? ...
This posting here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156044/how-do-you-manage-database-revisions-on-a-medium-sized-project-with-branches) got me wondering how best to work on a web project using branching and deploying to dev, staging, and production (along with local copies). We don't have "releases" per se: if a feature is big enough...
I have a need to remove temp files on tomcat startup, the pass to a folder which contains temp files is in applicationContext.xml Is there a way to run a method/class only on tomcat startup? ...
I would love find out which is the best image manipulation library for which platforms and languages. Likely you could use a library under multiple platforms with the right API or Plugin capabilities. I'm specifically looking for web based applications, but please answer for desktop apps as well if you like. Libraries (and the common di...
Hello, I have a simple web form that has a several fields and a gridview on it. I also have a save and cancel button. I would like a way to undo what was done to the data on the form when the user presses cancel. This is simple enough with the fields however since changes to the gridview happen in real time against the database I do n...
Should I use the GWT for a struts web application? ...
In the process of updating a web app from ASP to ASP.NET, I want to insert one of the new files into the old app to test something - is this an offence against reason? ...
Is it just a buzzword that means nothing or is there a definition of what makes an application (desktop or web) an enterprise application? ...