I'm designing an application that'd require different themes. By 'theme' I mean the colors and logo. Is using jQuery themeroller the only option or is there any easier solution to generate themes by providing colors and images? Thanks ...
After finishing school in Computer Science and entering the "real world" as a software engineer working on web applications, I've become overwhelmed by the amount of information to be learned about scaling web applications properly. Some topics/questions that have recently popped up for me: RDBMS's vs. unstructured data storage. Advant...
I have Apache running and serving PHP but I will also like to run JBOSS for my other web app. JBOSS is running on port 8080 while Apache is running on port 80. If there is a request for URL example.com, I want Apache to handle it because it is PHP backend but for URL example2.com, I want Apache to forward the request to port 8080 to be h...
I'm in the research phase for a web application I'm considering building and need some advice on the best choosing the best technology for the job. The app will make heavy use of dragging and dropping widgets onto a page and on top of other widgets. Two frameworks I'm aware of that have good support for this kind of thing are Sproutcor...
Hey guys, I have this webprojec to which I have to add a jar from another EJB project. Normally I'd right-click the webproject and go to properties -> Java EE Module Dependencies. I don't know if it is because I upgraded eclipse, or i'm doing something wrong, but I just can't find the "Java EE Module Dependencies" in the properties wind...
I need to access the rfile and wfile properties of a request handler instance. AFAIK, such a handler is instantiated by the framework during request lifetime. Update: I found that rfile is accessible through request.environ['wsgi.input']. To access wfile I've do a hack with the additional line in Paste sources, httpserver.py:210: ,'wsg...
Hey guys, I am developing a site for a client and they currently own two domains. howafarms.com and grassfedbeeffl.net The current site has howafarms.com traffic forward straight to grassfedbeeffl.net. My question is.. which one should I use as the main url and which should I forward. Normal logic tells me howafarms.com should be...
Background: All of my experience in developing software and managing projects has been related to applications (not counting a few trivial hacked-together websites here and there). Process-wise, I typically start off templating Rapid Development and the Software Project Survival Guide and then tweaking the plan to suit the needs, resourc...
We're finishing our website beta and we want to make sure we get capture our user's feedback, and solicit their input on wanted features. I see that there are some customer feedback management services, e.g., listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Feedback_Management_services . I want to get developer opinion on which one is f...
When we sign into gmail in one tab and orkut in another(remember both can only be of the same account. Logging into one automatically logs into another). if we log out from gmail and then go to the tab in which orkut is already open, after remaning in the page for a few seconds the page automatically logs out. How is this done? i assu...
I just started doing web-development a few months ago. I know HTML and know how to markup a page to be semantically correct (no using tables for layouts, using the new semantic elements from HTML5 correctly, etc). I try to adhere to W3C design recommendations. However, I'm having trouble writing "good" CSS. I know about using efficient ...
I've been curious about LunaScript since its announcement (http://www.asana.com/luna), and I thought I'd survey here what existing tools are similar to it - in particular, maintained and usable software. From the blog post: A Lunascript application specifes a data model and a function from the model to the view or user interface, an...
Hi! I'm asking for some orientation and recommendations for developing something similar like the yahoo movies page: http://movies.yahoo.com/ I don't know how the thing at the top with the arrows and different title of movies is called but I've seen it several times.(the one that has 4 options:expendables, yogi bear, etc) I want to add ...
I have events and users/teams. class Event has_many :users, :through => :registrations end class User has_many :events, :through => :registrations end class Registration belongs_to :users belongs_to :events end When I register a user, I'm connecting them to the event like so: @event.users << @user Does this implicitly creat...
Hi folks, I decided to use Shiro to secure my webapplication. I use a tomcat app server, maven, hibernate and jsf. Now I tried to configure Shiro but got some problems. Here are my files: ---POM.xml--- <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.shiro</groupId> <artifactId>shiro-core</artifact...
I am about to embark on an epic journey of Web development. Epic for myself, that is. The biggest and most difficult one yet. The rough thing about this project is the time involved. My boss wants me to put this project on a schedule, but I just have no Idea how to do this. So, could someone give me an advice: how should I calculate the...
How to set cookie under my firefox addon? function setCookie(name, value, expires, path, domain, secure) { document.cookie = name + "=" + escape(value) + ((expires) ? "; expires=" + expires : "") + ((path) ? "; path=" + path : "") + ((domain) ? "; domain=" + domain : "") + ((secure) ? "; secure" : "")...
Hi All, does anyone know if you can get individual field comments from mysql using Zend Db. What im working on is a registration form that gets all its fields from the db table. At the moment im using the field names to generate the labels for the form elements however it would be much better to get this data from the information_schema...
I am modeling a REST API and part of the API will represent resources that are organized into an arbitrary hierarchy of nodes with values and sub-nodes (kind of like a file system or the windows registry). I would love to create a WADL file so that i can generate the JAX-RS boilerplate for the API but i'm not sure how to represent such ...
In an MVC framework, I have a model with an "identifier" field. This field can be whatever is used by the user as their unique identifier. I then use this identifier field in URLs to access the relevant resources. /people/<identifier>/ In one such case, the user is using identifiers of the format 00/000. The quick among you will have ...