web-development

Using ASP.NET Automatically login to an external website and redirect

We have a series of products with built in web servers each of which has a login page, a customer wants to create a web portal in which they log into once, from there they can simply click on any of the devices (external websites) and it will automatically login to that site and redirect them to the page after the logi...

How to automate svn and building process?

After we tested the code in repository is OK, how to automate the building process, say, updating the production code with those in svn? If it matters, I'm talking about PHP source code. ...

HTML5 javascript libraries

I'm looking for javascript libraries that helps with HTML5 development. Please only post one library per answer, and don't forget to describe it. ...

Problems and solution for Developing a connected web and desktop application?

hi, I am trying to develop a web application(Using ASP.NET and c#) that uses a specific database hosted on web server. I will have another desktop application that will use a local database. Both databases have same structure and data at start up. Then databases will change when users add data to web application and an employee adds dat...

How to plan my web based project before starting code ?

Me and my friend started working together as partners , we have decided to make Kick-as* website after website. We have the ideas written down like 100's of them (yes we are choosing best and easy among them first). My friend does the layout design and arranging things , and my part is coding and server management. The little problem ...

python+gae compatible web ui toolkit with ajax but degrades gracefully when there is no js?

I am searching for a web toolkit that is Python compatible social/db/wiki like google-appengine compatible has built in pagination handles 'relationships' between entities uses ajax modal dialogs but degrades very gracefully on browsers that dont have js good ui decisions that make it gracefully degrade even on mobile, text and...

Where to put robots.txt file?

Where to put robots.txt? domainname.com/robots.txt ot domainname/public_html/robots.txt I placed here domainname.com/robots.txt but it's not opening when i type this in browser ...

Creating avatar from uploaded image

We are using asp.net with .net 4.0 We want to allow users to upload any image and we want to create tiny avatar for uploaded image? What is the best way to convert uploaded images for avatar? We want to keep the same height width ratio if we can convert gif, bmp, jpg, png to one standard format it would be greate. Which could be the...

Automatically select option from select menu with link

Hello there, I am trying to use php (and if not php, javascript) to link to a page and include a "?type=foo" or "#foo" at the end of the link so that when the linked page loads it will automatically select a specific option, depending on the end of the link, from a dropdown menu in a form. I have tried to search for this but do not know ...

Help me choose a web development framework/platform that will make me learn something

I'm having a bit of an overload of information these past two days. I'm planning to start my own website that will allow local businesses to list their items on sale, and then users can come in and search for "Abercrombie t-shirt" and the stores that sell them will be listed. It's a neat little project I'm really excited for and I'm su...

UK Postcode search

I want to build a website where you can search by entering the postcode (UK). I know that RoyalMail owns the Database to do this (it's only very expensive, $100K). What are my options? ...

cross-domain cookie in Opera

Hi, is it possible to set/read cross-domain cookies in Opera browser? I'm using solution http://bit.ly/c1Tk1i (sorry - in Russian, plz use google translate) and it works fine in any browser except Opera. ...

Column colapses on itself in IE

I have a column here: http://www.animactions.ca/contact.php It has contact information. Click contact a few times and you'll notice the text collapses itself. It happens randomly and I don't understand why? (only with Internet Explorer) Thanks ...

emacs frustration with web development any working dot-files?

I really liked flexibility of emacs but it is really annoying to make it work. I want to use it for web development html, css, javascript, php. I first tried emacs-starter-kit . It didn't included nXhtml. Also C-g key binding does not work (they call it starter kit but basic key command does not work). I think it is mapped for git contro...

Printing to different printers using mozilla.

I am currently creating a web application that will be deployed in an intranet environment. I chose firefox to be the browser that will run it. However, in the application I am building, I need to be able to print to different printers quickly since they use different paper size depending on what client is coming. To avoid many time-was...

Double Click and Resize on an Ipad

Thanks to the great post at OranLooney.com I was able to get a java/icefaces web-app to resize nicely on the ipad, however the code provided for double click doesn't seem to work without further customization. Has anybody had any experience with getting this to work? there seems to be little documentation on google. the donnothing(); i...

Fetching only the first record in the table (via the view) without changing controller?

I am trying to only fetch the first record in my table for display. I am creating a site where a user can upload multiple images and attach to a post but I only want to display the first image view for each post. For further clarification posts belong_to projects. So when you are on the projects show page you see multiple posts. In thi...

How do I query table data only for the current user's ID (VWD asp.net 3.5) ?

I'm using the Details View control of VWD asp.net 2008 I have a users database table. One of the columns contain the "uniqueidentifier" user's profile ID, created by VWD (from the automatic profiles table). From my table, I would like to select only the data pertaining to the logged in user. How do I get the current unique user ...

How to automate testing of a browser-based app?

If it were a windows program, I would use Auto it to automate testing. Is there something similar for browser-based apps? Nothing too complex, it should just allow scripting (preferable for me to macro-recording) to simulate human interaction with the browser, which means being able to identify fields of a form by name, inject text into...

asp.net web deployment

i have successful created asp.net web deployment project under visual studio 2008 and everything works fine. However there is a new requirement from my user where they want to browse the location to install the web application instead of using the default install location. Is there anyway to achieve this ? or do i need to use some thir...