web-development

Whats the best visual page designer for .NET web applications?

Im currently working on the GUI for an ASP.NET MVC application using Visual Studio 2005. The visual webpage designer (for the views) is awful. Any input on what other people use would be most appreciated! ...

Semantically correct tag to enclose a forum post

In HTML 5 what's the tag that is supposed to enclose a forum post, being as semantically correct as possible? <div> <article> <section> Other? ...

Spring 3 Controllers - Maintaining Model Through Flow

I'm sure there is some way to accomplish what I'd like here, but I haven't been able to find it in the documentation import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; import org.springframework.ui.Model; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; @Controller @RequestMapping(value = "/test") public class TestControll...

Forwarding Mouse Events through layers/divs

Hi Does anybody know of either a Jquery or native JS way to enable mouse events through layers? e.g. enable a link underneath a div. Other solutions but cannot use in my case: The simple way, although using not really supported 'pointer-events' http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/12/pointer-events-for-html-in-firefox-3-6/ A ExtJS solution: ...

Silverlight or MVC for Web Development

I was just wondering about the opinions out there. What do you think promotes faster development times for a web application? Silverlight or .Net MVC? And could Silverlight be a replacement for a true http web application? Feel free to rant or give as much details as necessary. ...

How to calculate page visit times for a website

I am building some custom logging code to track how people use our web application. I am doing this is in the Site.master page under ASP.NET MVC, but my question is actually more generic. What I would like to do is determine how long someone spends on a particular page. I can track when people hit a certain page, but obviously I can't...

Should I consider Erlang for web mvc?

Can I do that? I'm afraid that this can be an overkill and eventually I'll end up with much less productivity than with traditional stack like Ruby/Python/you name it. I understand that you will start with much lower productivity if you start to work with new technology but .. is it potentially worth trying and finally switch to Erlang ...

Help with interesting VS2010 and SQL2008 bug

Hey, I'm using Visual Studio 2010 to create a webpage. I'm calling some tables from SQL Server 2008. Here is where I'm confused... The code runs fine with no errors. The pages work except I'm missing my rows in my 3rd column from the table. Everything else shows up. Ive checked to make sure the names are matching everywhere and that ...

Is there a way to add an MP3 player to my website so that iPhone & iPad users can use it.

I have a website www.askvioletnow.com. I added a flash mp3 player that plays a sound clip when you go to the page. I know Flash doesn't work on the iPhone OS, but is there a way to get this type of mp3 player to work on an iPhone? I'm thinking maybe a javascript mp3 player. What I would ultimately want is to replace my flash mp3 pla...

Form values in a list item

Here is the site mock-up I'm working on for my job: http://dev.arm.gov/~noensie/dqhands/cgi-bin/explorer. I'm still a novice in web developing and I need help with placing form values in a list item to pass on to another page. I'd rather not go in great detail the purpose of this website, but in terms of its basic use, select the parame...

Type of object returned by an input from a web page

I'm attempting to upload a file into a jsp and then use the file in some other code. My problem is that it comes into the servlet as an Object via the request.getAttribute() call so I don't know what to cast it to. I have this code so far to try and test what it is but I'm getting a NullPointerException. test.jsp <%@ page language="j...

Is it necessary to look, website same in all browser?

Is it necessary to look, website same in all browser? Is it a legal requirement in some country? isn't it need of pixel perfection ( to inch to inch match with Design) a madness? isn't it asking IE6 Pixel perfection, as of now, is a madness? Is it sin to to use JavaScript for visual enhancement, like to enable border radius in IE using ...

Database web application

How would i go about creating a php application for my web page that can extract data from my database (i currently get the data in a CSV file). id also like the user to be able to filter the data by certain parameters. can u help ...

jquery noob problem with variables (scope?)

I'm trying to retrieve data from a php file named return that just contains <?php echo 'here is a string'; ?> I'm doing this through an html file containing <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; <script> var x; $.get("return.php", function(data){ x = ...

Silverlight - server side initialization

I am new to SilverLight and also web development. When the webserver application for the Silverlight app starts up I want to kick off some processes (server side) .. how do I do this .. there is no Main() or any other way I can see of doing this. I have a feeling it is to do with the html tag on the startup page which currently point to...

Getting php tips and tutorials as daily emails to improve the knowledge in php programming

Hi Thanks for your time. This question is related to php programming but not a programming question.I have a young team of php (LAMP + javascript) programmers.I want them to learn better coding and keep themselves updated with the latest advancements in web domain. I was thinking if there was any web site which send daily emails abou...

Kohana multi language website

.I'm trying to set up a multi language website with kohana v3, following this tutorial: http://kerkness.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=example_of_a_multi-language_website Routing to a controller or action within i.e. website/controller/action seems to work as the url is properly redirected to website/lang/controller/action. However this is not w...

Raudus vs ExtPascal: Delphi web developement alternatives that use ExtJS

Delphi developers has several tools (several alternatives to ASP.NET) for building web applications. While No.1 framework is Intraweb, there is a lot of interest around ExtJS, that has 2 incarnations: 1) the opensource ExtPascal 2) the closedsource Raudus Now the products are different, Raudus never supports the latest ExtJS version (w...

webservice run automatically

Is there any trick to run a Webservice automatically to check some date specific and performs some operations on particular date. Like sending birthday emails and so on? ...

IE6 secure and nonsecure error - nothing in Fiddler/no iframes

Hi, I've got the issue of IE6 showing the "secure and nonsecure items" error on an SSL page. Looking into it though none of the usual causes seem to apply. There are no calls to http://, there are no iframes in the page, fiddler and httpfox both show only requests to https:// - what else can i check? In Firefox and IE there is nothing ...