web-development

Getting the executed output of an aspx page after a short delay

Hi all, I have an aspx page which has some javascript code like <script> setTimeout("document.write('" + place.address + "');",1); </script> As it is clear from the code it will going to write something on the page after a very short delay of 1 ms. I have created an another page to get the page executed by some query string and g...

cakePHP tutorial pdf for beginners and expert levels?

Hi all, i need to download the cakephp documentaion pdf for both beginners and expert level. Does any one know good pdf link, please help ... Thanks in Advance!! ...

Unable to connect to Visual Studio's Localhost Web Server

Until yesterday everything was normal but today i try to lauch my application using Ctrl+F5 and i get the following error: Unable to connect to Visual Studio's Localhost Web Server I have tried aspnet_regiis -i and iisreset but nothing works. Any ideas?? Environment: Windows XP Visual Studio 2005 ...

What are common java web development practices?

I'd like to learn more about/better understand common java web development practices of development groups that have at least two teams - web designers and web component developers. Particularly, I'm interested in understanding things like: Assuming there is a code repository, do all teams checkout a local copy of all code? If yes, why...

Interfacing with the end-user's scanner from a webapp (web/scanner integration)

Consider the following scanning procedure in a typical document handling webapp: The user scans a document using a scanner connected to his/her computer The scanned image is saved locally on the user's computer as a BMP/JPG/TIF/PNG file The user hits a file upload "Browse.." button in the web application The user is presented with a fi...

Which modern web frameworks are popular in a corporate setting?

My company is looking to move their software to an open source framework. Their first thought was J2EE. I know that Django and Rails are popular for recreational development, but not sure about them in a corporate setting. I was looking to compile a list of possible web frameworks to consider. Unfortunately I am not able to release ou...

How to convert UTF-8 text into JSON format

I was working on project that had problem when encoding UFT-8 text into JSON Format <?php $result = array('wine'=>"测试", 'عربي'=>4, 'lemon'=>22); echo json_encode($result); and i also tried Zend_JSON Library , <?php require_once 'Zend/Json.php'; $result = array('wine'=>"测试", 'عربي'=>4, 'lemon'=>22); echo Zend_Json::encode($r...

starting my own threads within python paste

I'm writing a web application using pylons and paste. I have some work I want to do after an HTTP request is finished (send some emails, write some stuff to the db, etc) that I don't want to block the HTTP request on. If I start a thread to do this work, is that OK? I always see this stuff about paste killing off hung threads, etc. Will...

Stateful experience

What are three ways in which web applications can provide a stateful experience for the user?(using http) I know Sessions and Cookies are two of them, but don't know a third (database??) Yes a question from a lecture. ...

Refreshing a page without postback in least time irrespective of DB Size.

Which method is very effective and simple to code to attain this functionality ? Refreshing a page without postback in least time irrespective of DB Size. Consider i have 10 million records in table i have to retrive the 1000 records of the particular user and display it in the page. He/she might get few more records in next 2 seconds...

A beginner's question on web technologies.

I am just dipping my hands into web technologies. I started with HTML and now JavaScript and PHP. I have a variety of questions in my mind. I am a hardcore .NET Windows developer and earn my living with it. But now I want to go deep into Web and so here are my queries: (1) I started using PHP. I also want to learn Ruby with Rails. Can I...

Seeking suggestion for my graduation project in Web development

Hello . I have to confirm the detail of my gradutaion project recently. My setup a goal for myself, that is it should have values( maybe as a opensource project or tools that can be use by others). Can you suggest some ideas or projects pertaining to one of : Web architect, Social Media, Ruby, ROR, Testing. Thanks!:D ...

PHP Replace Colour in truecolorimage

Hi all, I need to find a colour within an image and replace it - if it is present. All I can find is information about replacing within an indexed image. Is there an easy way to do it with a true color image? Is it more efficient to convert a true color image to an indexed one and then replace the colour? Thanks, Mark ...

What features can improve the usability of a WebApp

i am looking for new features and ideas to improve the overall usability of our internal webapp (straight LOB-App with some CRM features) i bet there is ton of those waiting the get found. as an example: recently i tried out rememberthemilk.com a task tracking application which has the feature to enter dates in natural language, so ins...

Recommendations for handling list selection of data in a web application?

I am struggling with what the better practices or recommended ui design patterns are for making selections from a list of data, more specifically, key/value data. My questions are: When should I use a drop down? When should you employ a list of radio buttons verses a drop down? When should I use a list box? If you do allow for m...

Creating proper layouts (table-like) with CSS

How do I properly create layouts with CSS? I.e. how do I do presentation if I were to replace the html tables I had used earlier? With <tables> I had all the sections and different regions aligned and properly shown (at least to my perspective). If one of the cell values is a column was to increase it would dynamically increase th...

wordwrap problems on a webpage

how do i make sure that on my forum when people submit posts, i do not have this problem of a HUGE unwrapped string as seen on this posting: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1607047/best-practice-for-developing-webpage-for-mobile-phone ...

Is there an offline version of Smush.it available?

Sometimes I use Smush.it via the YSlow Firefox plugin to non-destructively reduce the file size of JPG images. Is there an offline version available that runs on Windows? And if not is there an alternative? The reason I'd like an offline version is that I'd like to optimize images before I deploy them. Currently Smush.it accepts only pu...

Automated Web Application Testing Framework

What is a good web application testing framework that I can use for a fairly large JavaEE based app? I am currently using Canoo Webtest, but we are running into issues with jQuery. I have tried upgrading the htmlunit to the current version, but that causes even more strange errors to occur. I am looking to see what other automated web ...

CherryPy variables in html

I have a cherryPy program that returns a page that has an image (plot) in a table. I would also like to have variables in the table that describe the plot. I am not using any templating just trying to keep it really simple. In the example below I have the variable numberofapplicants where I want it but it does not output the value of the...