I read some website development materials on the Web and every time a person is asking for the organization of a website's js, css, html and php files, people suggest single js for the whole website. And the argument is the speed. I clearly understand the fewer request there is, the faster the page is responded. But I never understand t...
If I need to keep track of a key or token that identifies a resource being displayed and modified in the browser, what are the some of the programming patterns used? For example, if I display a list of movies and hookup ajax calls for users to checkout or review those movies, I'm assuming I would embed the identifier in the html which w...
Hi, I am doing some of my first web dev, and had a question about the max-height css property. Here's my code: div{ max-height:10px; } Whenever I create a new div, everything works fine, but when I add any sort of other element between the div tags, the height of the div increase by around 10 pixels (I'm guessing). Is there any...
As you know there's some php functions to be disabled on shared hosting environments. Searching the Google, I found many lists of these functions. one of these functions is curl_exec, I can't understand why this function should be disabled? How this function could be vulnerable? ...
I have configured smtp gmail for mail sending. It sends mail well, but when try to open script/console, it says no such file to load -- tlsmail and ends. If i comment out the require 'tlsmail' file in environment.rb file, it doesn't send the mail. gem list also shows the tlsmail installed on machine. ...
Hi folks, I'm designing the template for my new JSF2.0 App and I want to use the resources folder to store my css-file. Now I started to create a template-file, but I don't know how to link the css. I tried: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="resources/css/style.css"/> ..but didn't work Can somebody help me, pls. THX <...
Hi All, I am new to web programming and Spring MVC 2.5. I am not sure about my problem is spring sprecific or web specific in general. I have a menu.jsp and I use jsp:include to include it in all my jsp. <ul class="menu"> <c:url var="home" value="home.htm"/> <c:url var="data" value="data.htm"/> <li><a href="${home}" clas...
When you have peaks of 600 requests/second, then the memcache flushing an item due to the TTL expiring has some pretty negative effects. At almost the same time, 200 threads/processes find the cache empty and fire of a DB request to fill it up again What is the best practice to deal with these situations? p.s. what is the term for this...
My company's web architecture has essentially got an extra layer due to client security requirements, which complicates the process of developing applications a bit. I'd like to get some input and suggestions on the best way to do so. First, an overview: presentation layer - this is mostly PHP, with some flex applications as well. We ...
Hi, I am creating a social networking ( yet another ) website targeting specific non-technical audience. How do I make it look/feel more professional ? How do you prepare a website so it feel authentic ? I am looking answer in terms of usability, font selection, colors, navigation, level of ajax, form design, link position, how to...
We currently have a fully developed web forms application, basically its like WordPress using .net for multiple users to publish content. It does more than that but thats the simplest way to describe it. Our "webmasters" (I work in the gov) want everything put inside of SharePoint. We currently have SharePoint 2007. I have no experience ...
I'm thinking about organizing my CSS better. One suggestion is to use something like .LESS I'm using ASP.NET and there is currently a Beta .LESS for .NET Curious if there are other solutions like .LESS? ...
This is a pretty simple question really, but let's say I'm creating a model for Person. Person obviously has first name, last name, age, etc. But the person also has contact info consisting of things like address line 1, address line 2, city, state, zip, country, phone 1, phone 2, etc... Does it make more sense to create a model for P...
Hello, I am going to develop a Rails app pretty soon. Currently I have nothing but an idea + few wireframes. I would like to know how shall I proceed? At what stage should I implement/write the following Cucumber features Rspec tests Code Refactoring code What gems/plugins do you use? [ For common tasks ] ...
My site has a "print this page" button. I load a static print template HTML file into a hidden iframe, copy the HTML into that page using jQuery, and call window.print() from the Iframe page. All is well, except on Safari, which wants to print the parent frame as well, so I get two print dialogs opening. I've tried calling window.print...
I am in the process of building an mobile/web application. I want to use cookies for persistence, but I am wondering of the cookies in firefox workings the sames as say the mobile browsers and will it be recognized. Thanks in advance ...
Is it possible to work with client chosen images on client PC without uploading image to server. If yes, what web programming language can do that? ...
In my web.config, appSettings section, I have several keys. What is the preferred way to handle in code any keys that are missing? For example, a key name is changed due to a typo. I know I can use various methods to test if the values of said keys exist but what about the key itself? ...
So...I am creating software for a university. The purpose of the software doesn't matter. What I do need to know is, the best way to make it, and what technology to use. The software needs to be able to accept multiple data sources, from Excel to SQL. However, the students will be using it primarily, and they won't always be on the scho...
Can anyone point me to some good resources on how to implement PERMA links in ASP.NET? I've done a couple google searches but haven't found anything that like authoritative or definitive. ...