web-applications

Listening for TCP connections through a browser

Is there some sort of method I could use to launch something from a browser which would listen for tcp connections? I explored Silverlight but it looks like I can only connect to 3rd parties with a Silverlight app. What I'm looking for is have the user run something in browser which could receive third party connections. I'm starting ...

Stand-alone Web-application

Hi, Is it possible to write a web application with C which acts both as the application and web server. I mean, typically, web applications are written in PHP which is invoked by Apache. If you want to write an extremely fast and efficient small application can you write an executable to work independent of Apache and PHP interpreter? ...

What do I need to set up my web app to accept input via email and sms?

I'm trying to enable some basic commands via email. Currently I have shared hosting accounts with shell access at dreamhost and site5. I usually use php/drupal, but am open to other options. I found this question, but I'm looking for something more basic: what do I need to configure where to create a hello world app that responds to emai...

Multilingual web application problem

Hi all, I am working on Spring web application and my application is multilingual. I have created the ResourceBundle property files as messages.properties and messages_ar.properties. In my start page, I have set by default the locale to English. through: <fmt:setLocale value="en" scope="session"/> On the same page, I have provided u...

What's the difference between Django, Ruby on Rails, Google App Engine, etc.?

I have a newbie question about developing interactive, dynamic web sites. Can someone explain concisely the differences between: Django Ruby on Rails Google App Engine CGI scripts/apps whatever else is or seems similar (PHP?, Java Servlets?, TurboGears?, etc.) When would I prefer, say, the Google App Engine over Django, etc.? If I wa...

Use Django (or Ruby on Rails) on server without root access?

Is it possible to develop multi-client web-based CRUD applications (with Django, Ruby on Rails, etc.) on a server on which you don't have root access? Our machines at school, on which I have a regular account, run a web server, and I can publish regular HTML pages and CGI scripts. How easy/difficult/impossible would it be to install Dja...

How to stop Visual to put web.config when I compile web site project

Hi, In my web application (Dotnetnuke 5) site, for development purposes I made a virtual directory under the main website. As a result, in my solution I have the main Web site as well as the virtual directory website which is actually a folder inside this main web site. Now I want to have this as a virtual directory because I want to ...

Can I legally incorporate GPL software in a proprietary, closed-source Web app?

I am developing a close source Web-based C IDE which uses gcc compiler for compiling the code on the server. You can think of it as something like Google Doc where you write C source and can see the console output in a separate window. I want to use a monthly subscription model for my website, where users pay a monthly fee to use the sof...

Web interface pattern for associating two entities from data-sets without javascript

Hi All I am writing an ASP.Net MVC application. I have two entities - patients and treatments - which belong to large datasets with more than a thousand of each. The user needs to be able to easily create an association between the two - say add a treatment to a patient. I cannot use ajax or javascript. The list of treatments would ...

Sharing Data between Web Applications

We have a large WebForms application here that we would like to port over to mvc piece by piece. I'd rather not have a co-mvc/webforms solution but would rather create a brand new mvc application which can be called from our webform application and which can call our webform application. the problem lies in sharing information between ...

Storing users of a public web site in Active Directory

I am working on a system architecture for a fund/pension manager. We are providing two ASP.NET MVC web applications; one to allow members of the pension fund to login and check their balances, manage their investment, etc and another to allow employers to make contributions to the fund on the employees (members) behalf. There are also in...

The Model-Repository-Service-Validator-View-ViewModel-Controller design pattern (?)

When I first heard about ASP.NET MVC, I was thinking that would mean applications with three parts: model, view, and controller. Then I read NerdDinner and learned the ways of repositories and view-models. Next, I read this tutorial and soon became sold on the virtues of a service layer. Finally, I read the Fluent Validation documentati...

How to load a sub-application from a main application in Flex

Hi all I've created a client with login acces in Flex. After the succesful login i have to show a table based on a mySQL server. The database is composed by some tables, and I have created 6 flex mxml components with each own scripts for each of those tables. How can i load sub-applications, for example with a PopUpButton or a TabBar in ...

Error handling in the RequestHandler without embedding in URI

When a user sends a filled form, I want to print an error message in case there is an input error. One of the GAE sample codes does this by embedding the error message in the URI. Inside the form handler (get): self.redirect('/compose?error_message=%s' % message) and in the handler (get) of redirected URI, gets the message from reque...

Changing Property Types in Designer

Hello, I have a property in a control that exposes an interface. IElementTemplate. What I was hoping to do was to use the designer control to override the reference to change it to a class that inherits from this interface, but this isn't working: protected override void PreFilterProperties(System.Collections.IDictionary properties) ...

Web Services, Temp Files, and Program Memory

My team is currently developing a resume-parser for a website. Our parser will translate and format the resume into the industry-standard HR-XML. The website will then take the HR-XML-formatted information and pre-populate editable fields so the user can finalize his/her profile on the website. What would be the best way to port the H...

Why are web apps prevalent for internal corporate apps?

OK, I realize that people don't like to install stuff on their PCs if they don't have to and that is the primary advantage of web apps over "desktop" that run locally. But for corporate internal applications where security is not an issue, if an application is such that its user base has the app up 100% of the time, using it exclusively...

RememberMe option in an asp.net web application

Hai guys, what are the possible ways of implementing remember me option in an asp.net web application? ...

what is the difference between Managed Application & Web Based Application?

I want to know the difference between managed application & web based application. I am developing smart device application in .NET. Can we differentiate ASP.NET, C#.NET, VB.NET application based on difference between Managed Application & Web based application? ...

Global Filter for all Web Applications

In a J2EE application, how do I create a global Filter that can access other webapps installed on that app server? ...