I have an ASP.Net 3.5 application in which I would like to setup some web services for AJAX consumption for ONLY within the application they reside. There is no foreseeable need to expose them to anything beyond the application in which they live. That being said, is there any particular benefit to use WCF over ASMX or viceversa to exp...
What Java web development environment is the best for absolutely minimizing the build-deploy-test cycle time? Web development environment: JBOSS, Tomcat, Jetty? Deploy WAR exploded? Copy WAR or use symbolic links? There are factors here I don't know about. Build-deploy-test cycle? The amount of time it takes to test a change in the bro...
My main development, and workstation, is on an MS stack in .NET. I'm using IIS for my web endeavors, and everything works great. However, I have a need to be able to work on and test on a LAMP stack for various reasons. I have various clients that are running on LAMP stacks and need help with projects. My question is, given that I do...
Does anyone know if there's a Flash (ActionScript) library for providing back button support? The GotMilk site does this. I was hoping there's a Flash library for this so I can provide and train a customer of mine to utilize this technique to build a whole site in flash. http://gotmilk.com/ http://gotmilk.com/#/gotmilkbrand/ ...
I was just told that I might have to work on a project where i will be working with ASP.NET 3.5 and C#. Someone in our team said that we should change all the pages to HTML when we publish the site. So instead of having www.test.com/Page.aspx we will have www.test.com/Page.html So what i would like to know is: A.) How can this be done ...
I have to inherit an ASP.NET 1.1 website of company. The website's still running smoothly. I get a copy of it and then convert it to ASP.NET 2.0, and ... Visual Studio 2008 shows errors: Parser Error Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific par...
I would like to style an UL to display all items in a box with rounded corners (see below): Is it ppossible to use css and only the UL (with no additional divs and tables) as i'm going to use it in a CMS system to style all ul created by the user. ...
We are looking to setup an employee directory with the usual information (name, number, department, job desc etc) and would like to give the users the functionality to update their own record as and when their details change. I'm struggling to find a suitable system, can anybody recommend? We are running IIS and the cms in use is Immedi...
What can be the various performance testing scenarios to be considered for a website with huge traffic? Is there any way to identify the elements of the code which are adversely affecting the site performance? Please provide something similar to checklist of generalised scenarios to be tested to ensure proper performance testing. ...
I have a Java based web-application using Java Server Faces and Facelets. I am inputting a date range using the richfaces calendar. Here is the code on the web-page. <h:panelGroup> <fieldset> <legend>Date Submitted</legend> <rich:calendar value="#{SearchBean.start_dateSubmitted}" /> <rich:calendar value="#{...
I'm working on a web application that has a lot to download (javascript, images, videos, etc), and I was wondering how many people still consider dial up while developing large web applications? Is there a rule of thumb that you use to determine the individual page sizes? (i.e. home page must be less than 200k) ...
Hi. I've got the latest version of sifr working fine except that for one letter, it is looking very odd. the font is 'Tiresias LPfont' and for a uppercase 'O' it is creating a weird line through it at the top: http://tinypic.com/r/25qyflt/3 I've tried it every other letter uppercase, characters before and after it. In flash, when I cr...
When I was setting up an account with gmail few years back (probably this is still a case, haven't check) I've noticed that system doesn't allow to register common terms, nouns as username, it seemed that it used a sort of dictionary for screening. I would like to implement similar feature in my app, anyone have idea how to tackle this? ...
I would like to rapidly prototype new features for a website. I'm looking for a way to: Build around an existing, complex website Allow for interactivity Ridiculously fast and easy to try out new things I imagine something that allows me to say "render this website, but on pages with URLs like this, tag on this thing that I'm now dr...
I develop various web apps, use CSS and JavaScript extensively, and need to be able to test them on both FF 3 as well as FF 3.5. Of course, installing 3.5 overwrites 3.0, so I was wondering if its possible (and if so, how) to run both Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 on the same system, or am i stuck having to use 2 different systems? I am using Wi...
I'm starting a project e-commerce site with Magento. I've been using the Microsoft Stack for a while now, but I'm excited about working with PHP. Before I really dig in, I need some resources. I've found the tutorials on Magento's site, but they were pretty sparse. I'd like to hear what Magento developers here are doing, so I have a fe...
I have an existing database containing some pictures in blob fields. For a web application I have to display them. What's the best way to do that, considering stress on the server and maintenance and coding efforts. I can think of the following: "Cache" the blobs to external files and send the files to the browser. Read them from di...
I want to setup a simple site and I don't have any web development experience. For a start, I need to create a basic form where I can post text and store it in a database. Nothing fancy. Questions that I need answers: Good free web hosting sites? Any frameworks that I should use? (I'm familiar with Python and C++). Are there websites ...
Looking at examples and tutorials for some MVC libraries for web development on the Internet, I found that many of them construct HTML directly in the code of Model class and then Controller just sends it to the View which just displays it. While this makes Controller and View very simple and clean, I feel it is a wrong approach. IMHO, M...
This question is meant to serve as a list of databases and their configurations that the major web-sites use and would be a great reference for anyone thinking of scaling their web-site to the size of Twitter, Facebook or even Google. Please keep your answers to a minimum and be sure to cite any sources used. EDIT: Also, please bold b...