web-development

Limit to the amount of posts on Word Press

My friend has a blog that has more than 300k posts on it. The performance of the blog has pretty much crippled his server. Is there a know limit to the posts on WP, or are there any performance optimizations that one can perform? The blog posts are intended for archiving. ...

Why is SuperFish overriding all my list styles?

I'm currently using SuperFish - http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/#download - for the first time in a project of mine. My global navigation works as intended, however, regular page lists are displaying the same styling as my Superfish navigation. I have looked through my CSS, everything is written pseudo-like and should...

What are the popular 'web-ready' functional programming languages?

Hello, This is a simple question: what are the most popular/used/developed (libraries a plus) functional programming languages that are ready to be used for web development? I don't mind if they're pure languages or not, but I would prefer to exclude such languages as Ruby and Python. I am thinking along the lines of F# or Scheme (and...

Google Font API Library or FontFace

Hi, Google has launched Google font API but, CSS3 standard came with @fontface which enables us to have non web safe fonts on websites. Can anyone suggest pros and cons of both over each other. Which one is preferred and why? ...

Gecko XPCOM usage vs WebKit

I need to embed a web browser in C++ application. As well, I need to reach its javascript methods from Delphi components. I know that for FF there is Gecko with XPCOM. Is there something like this for WebKit? ...

Design Patterns web based applications

Hello all, I am designing a simple web based application. I am new to this web based domain.I needed your advice regarding the design patterns like how responsibility should be distributed among Servlets, criteria to make new Servlet, etc. Actually I have few entities on my home page and corresponding to each one of them we have few opt...

Funky Layout Issue using TabLayoutPanel and GWT?

Hey guys, I'm using GWT for a data-driven web application, and I'm having issues with a CellTable embedded in a TabLayoutPanel. As you can see from the screenshot, the scroll bar for the table does not appear inside the bounds of the TabLayoutPanel. (You can see just a couple pixels of it on the right.) If I mouse over the TabLayoutPanel...

Is it possible to disconnect an http client from PHP?

In PHP is it possible (and is it safe) to close the http connection without returning any http status code? My server is apache. Will this be logged to the access log or error log? ...

Maintaining strict data confidentiality of clients

I am building car rental web-application software I recently encountered a concern from a possible client; that they don't want the software company to see their data in the database. They load their rates contracts etc which are confidential and don't want anyone apart from them have access to this data, including our dba or some devel...

Generate image from url. Not working with aspx page?

I'm trying to produce a report using c#. First part of the report gets a visual image of a lot (using Mapguide) and places it in a PDF This part works fine. Next part requires converting a dynamic web page to an image to be inserted into the PDF. The problem is I have no control over how the webpage is created it seems to be produced as...

JSF: somes say it's a presentation layer, somes say it's a web-tier

Somes documentation say represent a presentation layer (which I think represent the 6th level of the OSI Model), but others documentation say it's represent a web-tier in a multi-tier web model. I dont think they are the same, or are they? ...

How do I embedd a graph in asp.net

I'm looking to graph basic database data in a X Y axis graph. I would like a solution where the users do not need to download any extra plug-ins (i.e. Silverlight). Looking for the most efficient/fastest solution where the chart is embedded into the page as a graph, instead of just looking at the table data. Is there a built-...

Learning cross-browser development (CSS/XHTML)

I have been out of the loop with web development for about a year and a half now. My current project is working/functioning well with OS X browsers; Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox (minus a few things). Many things have changed since I was working heavily with these technologies. Does anyone have any suggestions in the ...

drop down sliding underneath content.. i have tried EVERYTHing.. :(

Hey guys, ive been working on this drop down for wayyy to long now. I just cant get the drop down to fall on top of the main content on the page. I have tried adding position: relative and z-index on all relevant areas. I think what may be causing the problem is "overflow: hidden" in some places.. but that is by far my favorite way to...

Which technology for business web application?

Hello, I am pondering on building a CRM for consulting business and am looking for best technology to build on. It will be web based with maybe a plugin that integrates with Outlook. What I don't want is to spend a lot of time doing HTML-fu and CSS-fu just to get basic grids, data entries and so on up. I don't mind picking up a new lang...

Can I know Email client sender IP?

Hi Is there away to know original email sender IP, I mean the client machine which is used to send the email not the smtp sever. where in the header if any? ...

How should the database logic be stored in a website?

I'm new to web development and am making a mini project on a simple social networking site. I'm using ASP.NET with C# & SQL Server 2008 Express. I've read articles on how one should aim to create a data access layer (DAL) for the database to be used. One method is to create strongly typed datasets & adapters via the designer tools prov...

bubbles within input fields - How?

I want to develop bubbles within input fields. Does anyone know a good tutorial or at least the actual name so I can look myself? I have provided examples below that illustrate what I mean, within the "to" field. Examples: Hotmail: http://thesocialmediaguide.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/email-to-Facebook.jpg ...

How to make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable?

I have a favicon.ico in my asp.net web application. It is small but how to make it cacheable? Any suggestion. ...

Difference between a web application and a website?

Hi, I have been an android developer till about a week back when I shifter over to "web application" development. Now when I ask people how to get started for the same purpose I get the usual answer of studying js, HTML5, CSS, Ajax etc... So I strated out and I was pretty happy for some time learning new things and getting used to the i...