web-development

Shell Script For The Web

I want to know if there is any way to use Bash(Shell Script) to make web pages, like Perl, C++ and others through CGI. And if there is any way, where I can find a good free hosting for it? ...

How to implement a chatroom?

I am very wondering if there are any popular apis/frameworks currently available to do this? I am familiar with PHP and Javascript. So I am wondering how would one design a chat room? How does the server push the data to the individual connected clients? I would like to build the server and the client side all on my own as a practice....

What is the name of this search term popularity component?

If you look at SharpCrafters, the front page has a cool component that shows how popular certain search terms are, with larger text for more popular terms. I've seen this around the web in different places, especially blogs. What is this called in general, and what specific implementations exist? ...

What next-generation web app frameworks exist? How do they go beyond RoR, Django, etc.?

Currently, the most popular web-app frameworks include Ruby-on-Rails, Django, and various PHP frameworks like Drupal and Joomla. However, I've been reading up on some "next-generation" web app frameworks that claim to approach web development differently. Perhaps the best known example is the Seaside framework, built on the Smalltalk...

iphone mobile web + remove safari interface bars

Hello, anone knows how to remove the bar at the top and bottom on safari iphone. I have this mobile web page am writing and I cannot get rid of the navigation bar. Is that even possible ? Thanks. ...

htaccess for subdomain

I need a .htaccess file: the file will rewrite rule for: xyz.sitename.com will be rewritten as: sitename.com/index.php/a/b/xyz xyz.sitename.com/m/n/o will be rewritten as: sitename.com/index.php/m/n/o/xyz sitename.com/m/n/o will be rewritten as: sitename.com/index.php/m/n/o ...

How can I provide a confirmation for closing an Internet Explorer window?

My company uses a web-based application that has long forms that the user fills out. Some of these forms save as you go (so that you can close the window and come back to it), but others can only be saved when they're completely filled out. We receive daily calls from users who "accidentally" clicked the close button on their IE window...

HttpWebRequest error 403

I am new in C# and have requirement to retrieve a url from C#. Most of case it’s working fine but in one case its throws an error. url is as follows http://whois.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois?searchtext=41.132.178.138 Error is: Exception in the HTTP request for url: http://whois.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois?searchtext=41.132.178.138 The remo...

ASP.NET MVC - How should sending email be handled?

In an ASP.NET MVC application, how should the sending of emails be handled? I've been thinking about this, and I really like the idea of handling it in an MVC-oriented way (it is an MVC application, after all.) What I mean is that the email that gets delivered to the user is really just a view that should have a model passed to it. This...

Custom Textarea Control/Component

I would like to create my own irregular shaped Text area control to be place on a webpage, which would be shaped in a sort of backwards L. Would this be possible to create in something such as adobe flash or silverlight? or is this not possible at all? I have tried searching for a few hours and have found nothing if anyone has any exper...

Find unused code in Java webapp

I have a Tomcat-powered webapp that builds to a war and is deployed. It's been used for a few somewhat different tasks over the years, and it has lots and lots and lots of classes and libraries. I'd like to do some sort of automated census of used and unused classes (and maybe even dependencies) and get a report back for which classes,...

looking for suggestions on how i can highlight areas on an image

i am building a workout website that tracks exercises. Each exercise has a mapping to a certain part of the body (bench press --> Chest) I am trying to figure out a way to visualize this and i thought of the idea of putting an image of a person "highlighting" the affected muscles. Sort of like This: Assuming i have found a good pic...

How do I access my Models in CodeIgnitor?

I'm trying to get familiar with CI and I have run into a problem while trying to implement my Model. I get the following error: A PHP Error was encountered Severity: Notice Message: Undefined property: Home::$OrderModel Filename: controllers/home.php Line Number: 12 My assumption was that I was breaking some convention with the nam...

Circular Carousel (jQuery)

I'm using a lightweight jQuery plugin for carousel, it works great except that it doesn't support circular carousel, i.e it'll auto-slide 1,2,3,4 and then backwards 4,3,2,1 instead of 1,2,3,4 then again jumping back to 1,2,3,4 again, which is what I want. Here's the jsFiddle for it: http://jsfiddle.net/vLZFh/ I'd really appreciate any...

VMWare fusion: connecting to host's web server from guest

Hello, I am a web developer and my development platform is Mac. I have installed a copy of Windows XP in VMWare fusion for testing purposes and using IE for previwing my websites. I have Apache running on my Mac with several subdomains, like test.localhost etc. How can I access the webserver on host OS from the guest OS? Thank you in ...

Nlog logging to database in n-tier environment

We are currently using nLog for logging (which was an arbitrary choice made some months ago so it can be changed if necessary). nLog can log to a database but requires a ConnectionString. This is an issue for us as we are in an n-tier environment and we have no database access at the Presentation tier (everything goes back to WCF hoste...

How to test a cron job in Local Server like WAMP?

How to test a cron job in Local Server like WAMP? ...

How to track links within a website

Hi, so I am transferring an old website to a new server, and attempting cleanup in the process. What I am looking for is some script or free software that can: a) show the paths through the website (following hyperlinks, etc), so I can see what links to what and b) some software than can see which html files are orphans (not linked t...

Frameworks/templates for web developer

Hi, I'm C/C++, Java developer and now in order to put some variety into my work, I decided to start playing with web development - i'm using django. However, I'm hopeless with graphics and advanced css. I would like to build and ship some apps with elegant and simple design. Are there any frameworks/templates which let me build somethin...

Increasing .NET knowledge

I would like to see if anyone can offer any advise on furthering my knowledge in the .NET environment... Here a little background. I went to a university and got my BS in Computer Science (mostly worked in C, Java, and C++). Took a job right out of college for a small business doing internal development and a few commercial projects...