web-development

Options for maintaining MySQL databases for a django development team

What are some options to avoid the latency of pointing local django development servers to a remote MySQL database? If developers use local MySQL databases to avoid the latency, what are some useful tools to sync schema updates of the remote db with the local db and avoid manually creating, downloading, and loading dumps? Thanks! ...

Using PHP, how do I FTP a file to a directory on the FTP server if I don't know if that directory already exists?

I have a web-application that allow users to upload images to my web site. What I want to do is instead of hosting those images myself, I want to push those images off to my CDN (Cachefly). Using PHP, I want to FTP an image from my server to another whenever a user uploads an image to my server. However, I want to maintain the file st...

which editor is used in wordpress?

Hi guys, Which editor is used in wordpress? I need one editor something like wordpress used. Please give me some good editors. ...

Re-learning CSS the right way

I am a programmer doing web development for over two years now. Even though I’ve been doing front end engineering for the past two years I don’t think I have done it the right way For instance: I still do layout with tables and not with just CSS. I haven’t still found out a way to correctly present data aligned and tabular. I don’t k...

What are your experiences with Content Delivery Networks (CDN) ?

What are your experiences with CDNs regarding ease of development, support, performance, pricing, etc? I am planning to use it to host a big number of images. ...

C# ASP.NET Collapsible Gridview

Is there a way to create a collapsible ASP.NET gridview displaying a parent child relationship based on a check box click? ...

Radio buttons being reset in FF on cache-refresh

(This is technically an addendum to an earlier StackOverflow question I had posted, but my original post asked a different question which doesn't really cover this topic -- I don't want to edit my older question as I feel this is different enough to merit its own page) While browsing my website in Firefox 3.5 (and only FF3.5), I come ac...

How can you open a popup window after you close another one?

I need to open a popup window, which when closed, opens a new pop up window. Then when you close that one another opens. I'm aware that this functionality can have uses for spam and nag-ware, but I need it for a user experience survey. Don't ask me, it wasn't my idea. How do you do this? ...

Working with disconnected data

What solution/s are recommended for working disconnected? I have a web application (asp.net) 3.5. Part of the application consists of visiting clients at home and completing a questionaire. My question is, how should I collect this data if no connection to the internet. I presume store as xml document, what do I use for the UI applic...

What's the simplest way to get a user's latitude and longitude from an ip address

I always end up needing the user's location on most web projects that I work on. I've used Maxmind's GeoIp, but it involves you importing their dataset and it needs constant updating. There are also other free and paid services, but I just wanted something simple that I could add to any site in a matter of seconds. So this is sort of...

How to Maintain a persistent state of the drop down?

Hi All, I am making a simple web app that has drop down list in the first page in a form tags. Now wen I change the value in the dropdown the form is submitted. On the onchange I have made call to create a query string custom JS function of the selected Index. Now I want the drop down list to maintain its state; keep the last selected va...

Access a website by a bot but only after setting a variable by a browser/human

We are working on a website of a brewery using Drupal. As minors under 18 are not allowed to view the website, any page accessed is passed through a module (legalage) and if the user clicks "continue" so as to confirm his/her age being more than 18 the site is shown to the user saving the legal age as true. The problem is when search e...

Windows App or Local Web App

Hi All, newbie on site. I have a new project, requirement are: Organised groups of users at multiple geo locations answer test questions using this software. We cannot rely on consistent internet connection, in case it goes down during test. My question's are: Q1. Based on assuming no internet connection, I guess I have 2 options?:...

Do you plan for javascript being off?

I'm coding a fairly large and complex site by myself, so do you think I need to support javascript being turned off? Its a lot of extra work supporting full page postbacks for stuff I could quickly do with JSON and ajax. ...

Incremental Publishing in Eclipse for Static Web Project

I have a static Web project added to an Apache server. Whenever I make a change to the project, regardless of how small the change is, the entire project republishes instead of the individual file. I was under the impression that the publishing process was supposed to keep a delta and only republish the files that have been marked as cha...

Basic excel like charting component for Ruby on Rails?

I've been using amcharts (a flash component) to produce charts from within my rails application. I'm curious.. is there a GEM or plugin that allows me to include a charting component in my web app that lets users mix from any data sets they want, and produce basic charts on their own? It would take me ages to script such a tool... Id...

Does anyone know of a cheap CDN that allows rsynch

I'm developing a web application and am looking for a great inexpensive CDN to host my images/css/js. Does anyone know of a great INEXPENSIVE CDN which offers either rsynch or origin/push services? ...

WPF in a browser and printing

Can WPF be hosted in a web browser? If so how? (I think it can as I have seen some examples of it.) While hosted in the web browser what printing support does it have? What are the drawbacks to using WPF in a browser? My company is looking for a rich web app platform. They will not choose Silverlight because it ignores any printing...

show "webpage has expired" on back button

What is the requirement for the browser to show the ubiquitous "this page has expired" message when the user hits the back button? What are some user-friendly ways to prevent the user from using the back button in a webapp? ...

Challenges when Designing Large Websites?

Possible Duplicate: What should a developer know before building a public web site? What are the challenges that are commonly encountered when designing and implementing a large site like Stack Overflow? ...