web-development

CSS property / Image size

Hi, i am learning web designing this days and come across the following problem, it will be my pleasure if you can solve it. While designing a site i placed an image in background it looks nice on my system but on other big screens image looks small and shows white space around it so all that i want to know is what size of image i shou...

Which technologies are commonly used by developers to quickly build websites?

I'm an experienced C/C++/C#/Objective-C desktop,web, and mobile programmer and I've become accustomed to building most of my software from scratch. I've built all my websites from the ground up using ASP.NET. I have quite a few ideas for websites that I'd like to test and I'd like to increase the rate at which I can actually build a we...

HTML Templates in Javascript? Without coding in the page?

I am a web guy doing mostly Perl server-side stuff, and I'm slowly coming to a few conclusions. It is far better to do most of your code via Javascript and toss data back and forth via AJAX than it is to hit submit and reload a mostly-identical page I like jQuery because I like CSS, and it's fun to chain together big long and scary-to...

Increasing security of web-based login [updated]

Right now my login system is the following: Password must be at least 8 characters long, and contain at least one upper and lowercase letter, a number and a symbol. Password can't contain the username as its substring. Username, salted+hashed (using SHA2) password stored on db. The nonce (salt) is unique for each user and stored as pl...

Joomla page load function

How do you pass items to the jQuery function "ready()" in Joomla? $(document).ready(function(){ // some code... }); I'm already using this function and most items in it will be static (won't change based on modules, etc.). However, in some cases, I need to "inject" additional code into this function. In particular, I have a custo...

Where I can find good tutorial for how to use web developer plugin?

Hello all, I am looking for some tutorials for how to use web developer plugin for firefox? http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ Is anyone here know they do exist? Thank you ...

Simplest survey tool to integrate into a website

For a startup website. Should have this - 1.) What they would like to see/improved upon ? - Users can enter a one liner. 2.) Visitors can leave a remark. 3.) Consumers can vote on suggestions & hence the top suggestion bubbles up. 4.) Allows for anonymous input. I think I've seen something similar to this, but don't remember where. ...

How does Yahoo create it's background gradient on yahoo.com ?

On Yahoo.com, I really like the light gray body gradient background. (Just the gray fade) However, I can't find the image they use to great this effect. Does anyone know what image/code Yahoo uses to create this background effect? ...

What are the Amazon Kindle User Agent strings?

What are the valid Amazon Kindle User Agent strings? Are they different for each model of the kindle? Update: just got this one off the new wi-fi only kindle: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; en-US) AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/528.5+) Version/4.0 Kindle/3.0 (screen 600x800; rotate) ...

Anyone have a good web dev work flow they recommend?

Hey all, does anyone have a good work flow they recommend? I'm pretty new to web dev and using css, php, html, javascript, and mysql databases. I'm looking for something along the lines of an IDE/plugins, ability to browse/modify databases would be great too! Thanks! ...

Generating dynamic CSS

What is the best way to handle style that that is user-customized? Just as an example of the result I'm looking for, this would suffice: body { color: {{ user.profile.text_color }}; } However, serving CSS as a view seems like it would cause a significant amount of overhead in a file that is constantly requested, so this is probably...

Getting Clients OS/Browser Details

Ok so I say a a site awhile back and I can't remember it for the life of me. It seemed fairly new but it was a site that you're client could go to, they'd enter your email and submit and it would send all their CPU details including which OS they have which browser and version they're running, etc. If anyone has any ideas what this site ...

I need the best solution for stand alone "web" app

Hi All Firstly, i'm still a bit of a noob when it comes to web dev, so please bear with me :) I have a client that has the following requirements: Require a stand alone web form (in html) to submit to a script and append the details to a csv or xls file Must work without any connection to the internet Must be easy to set up (i.e have...

Is it worth coding for users who may not have JavaScript enabled?

Possible Duplicates: How safe is it to assume that most users will have JS enabled? Is it reasonable to assume my visitors have javascript enabled? I'm worrying about this and don't know if I should be. ...

Web browser most suitable for web development

Which web browser is most suitable for web development? To be precise which browser has better and more add-ons supporting web development? Please tell me the corresponding add-ons also. ...

unexpected T_CATCH, expecting T_FUNCTION

Today, while trying to write this User class, I ran into the above error on the highlighted line below, and was wondering what you lot thought of it. class User { public $username; public $password; public $user_info; public $connection; function __construct($username) { $connection = new Database(); try { $user_info...

How can I discover what JavaScript function is called when clicking on something on a page?

I'm trying to deconstruct part of Gmail and can't seem to be able to find what is happening (what functions are called) when a specific button is clicked. I used Google Chrome's inspector and found the HTML for the button: <tbody id=":8y" class="vC " idlink="" role="option" aria-labelledby=":8x :8w"><tr class="vI"><td><img class="vt SF...

Data Scraping Problem

Hi, I am scraping data from facebook page for the wall posts, here is the url: http://www.facebook.com/GMHTheBook?v=wall&amp;ref=ts#!/GMHTheBook?v=wall&amp;ref=ts I sucessfully scraped all the visible wall posts using CURL. Problem: At the end of visible wall posts, there is Older Posts link which shows more wall posts once you clic...

What open source web programming languages are more restrictive than PHP?

I learned some java first, and now I'm learning PHP. I am not comfortable with how "free" it is, with things like loose typing. I really liked the way java forces you into good practice. Are there any open source web programming languages that are more restrictive than PHP, in the same way java is? ...

Are there java web application templates similar to appfuse?

I guess I am looking for hints and info about something that it is 'bigger' than a web app framework like JSF and the like. Sort of like Rails for Java web apps... or I could be completely off-base. ...