web-development

Designing a CMS to allow complete page design

Currently whenever a client wants a website I provide my own CMS however I have been wondering whether a 3rd party CMS may be easier. At the moment I have built it in ASP.Net & ASP.Net MVC (I'm thinking of moving to Ruby on Rails). A master page has 5 pagecontent areas, top, left, middle, right & footer. I then create usercontrols such...

What's the best way to test cross-browser compatibility?

Since the portable versions of IE are no longer supported (and never fully worked) I'm trying to find a way to test sites in a number of different browsers. The lag on something like browsershots.org is far too high to be practical, plus you can't test functionality. I'm looking at using VMWare images of XP with different versions of b...

Reliable / Popular data visualization toolkit for the web

Hi, I'm looking for a reliable toolkit in any web-neutral[A] language, actively maintained / developed, stable that allows me to build graphs, charts, display data dynamically, allow drag-n-drop of datasets and refreshes automatically. Carlos Scheidegger recommended - http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ which looks great! But I'm looking...

Idea for final year project

hello, i hv an idea of making a website using PHP and MYSQL which will maintain a list of all shops and services like plumbers, carpenters, interior decorators etc.(from now on referred to as workers) in an area. Just like ebay sells products, i intend to help the forementioned people (workers) "sell" their services. I am planning to do ...

Store files in MySQL database from HTML form.

Hey Guys, I've got the following HTML form. As you can see it's saving a file. <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="welcome.php" method="post "onsubmit="return validateFormOnSubmit(this)"> <b>Name</b><br/> <input type="text" name="fname" /> <br/> <b>Description</b><br/> <TEXTAREA NAME="description" COLS=40 ROWS=6></TEXTAREA...

How to create a site like ning ?

How to create a website like ning ? Which programming language is used to code a site like that ? I'm a newbie to web designing , I would like to get some assistance from the people or enthusiasts present over here ! ...

Git for Web Developing

I'm attempting to create a set of git repositories and web folders in a server using the post-update hook. It would be something like: //server/dev (for dev files) and //server/web (the apache main path) The post-update hook for the //server/dev git repositories: #!/bin/sh unset GIT_DIR PROJECT=`basename $(pwd)` cd ../../web/${PROJEC...

Profiling iPad/iPhone web application with Instruments

Hi, We're trying to determine why one of our web app ends up getting the Mobile Safari app killed on the iPad (works fine in the Simulator or even on the iPhone). Is it possible to profile a web application CPU/Memory usage by profiling Mobile Safari app via Instruments (either on the simulator, or even better on the device)? Thanks! ...

File not found log error .. What is triggering it? How to fix it?

I have this log error: [Wed Jul 21 10:40:17 2010] [error] [client 195.229.242.57] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/kranichs.com/httpdocs/products, referer: http://www.kranichs.com/products/Kranichs/ring-2194 I am assuming this has something to do with the page's URL is really something like kranichs.com/product_p...

ASP.Net Cache sharing

I have an ASP.Net 4.0 web application which very frequently loads data from the database and does heavy calculations on it. I want to cache this loaded and prepared data in a central cache that can be accessed by every user and computer who uses the application. Simple use-case: User 1 accesses webpage, cache is empty, data is loaded/...

ASP.Net dropdownlist within a detailsview not being set in codebehind

I have the following code in my codebehind Page_Load function that sets the default selected value of a dropdownlist in detailsview based on the name of a record returned from a sql data query. Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Me.Page.Title = "Editing record" '...

QTP narrow a list of ChildObjects

[The description is a bit fudged to obfuscate my real work for confidentiality reasons] I'm working on a QTP test for a web page where there are multiple HTML tables of items. Items that are available have a clickable item#, while those that aren't active have an item# as plain text. So if I have a set of ChildObjects like this: //Th...

I don't understand the bulid deployment package in VS 2010

Hi I don't understand how to use this feature called "Build deployment package" in VS 2010. I go to my properties and go to package/publish web and setup it up. I click "Create deployment package as zip" I then build the deployment package and get a zip file. When I look into and start drilling down in the folders I find I get a path ...

Display problem with Japanese characters

I am fetching a Japanese string from Oracle Database and displaying it on the browser. But the characters are shown on the browser like ???. Inserted the Japanese string into DB using the unistr() function. INSERT INTO MESSAGES (MESSAGE_ID,MESSAGE) VALUES (1,unistr('\0041\0063\0063\0065\0073\0073\0020\004d\0061\006e\0061\0067\0065\006d\...

Using Fiddler to debug the Windows Phone 7 emulator

I recently started using the updated beta tools for Windows Phone 7 and ran into an interesting problem. It seems that with Fiddler running, any Http requests run through the emulator start returning a null result and create a "not found" web exception. This is easy to reproduce with WebClient.DownloadStringAsync(). The old versions o...

Kohana or CakePHP?

Being a web development over the years, I have good experiences on php, xhtml, css, javascript, ajax, etc. I also work with some old php libraries like Smarty, PEAR, etc. Recently I decided to use a PHP framework, and I started to learn/use CakePHP. It's not really simple for an ancient philosopher like me, but I think it's a valuable ex...

Passing parameters to the event functions

Take a look on this simple sample <input type="button" value="btn1" id="btn1" /> <input type="button" value="btn2" id="btn2" /> <input type="button" value="btn3" id="btn3" /> <input type="button" value="btn4" id="btn4" /> <input type="button" value="btn5" id="btn5" /> <script> for (i=1; i<5; ++i){ var btn = document.getElem...

Recommendation on web language for building API set for application like friend-feed

I'm working on an idea for a website like friendfeed and need inputs on how to deverlop an API set. The module for tracking changes isnt a problem and has been build using system calls (so language-neutral). (a)What language should i use to build this API-framework for developers? Primarily this service is intended for developers, NOT...

Is Hibernate deprecated?

Hi folks, this morning I was aboard a S-Bahn (German Subway) and I met a fellow student, who works for IBM. What he is doing there is JEE optimization. I told him about my little project. And he recommended not to use 'oldschool' hibernate. That's why my question is: Is Hibernate deprecated? (In combination with JEE/Web Development) ...

iPhone Website preview in Windows & Ubuntu

I'm using iPhone simulator in Mac for iPhone web devlopment with jqTouch. I want to know , how to check web design for iPhone with Windows or Ubuntu. I tried iPhone Air but I don't like it. It's too small. Another tool or websites available for iPhone Web Development with Windows or Ubuntu. ...