web-development

how can i find a partner to learn web programming/php together?

hey, i know its very odd question in stackoverflow and also in web programming as it seem like a very autodidact field. i posted a massage (that got nice responses before it was closed so thanks guys (: ) a few days ago telling about my difficulties dealing and learning computer programing and web programming, persisting and being motiva...

What are the best HTML+CSS compression methods?

Hi, I have an ASP.NET web application and I'm thinking about the following: before sending any HTML or CSS content to users, I wish to 'compress' them, then cache the result and send that to the clients. I know it is possible to compress these by removing whitespaces, comments and stuff like that, but I'm not really familiar with more ...

what tools or languages or How can i build the site like google news

I have to build the website where i need to crawl to filter or u can say read the 50 webistes. then after reading those webistes i need to filter the news e,g news related to Mercedez benz and then i need to display that on that webiste with refrence to original source. Basically what google news is doing Currently i know PHP and can b...

google code + temp server?

Hi, We are starting a new project to develop a website using django. We have created a project on google code. We would like to be able to occasionally show the progress of the site to some people, without having to purchase a real server. We are all modifying the project through eclipse and SVN. What's the best way to create a runser...

Should the web.xml file be under version control?

In the past, I've only developed Java applications. This is my first time attempting an actual web app on my own, so pardon the painfully rookie question. Should I add the WEB-INF/web.xml file to version control? It appears to be a generated file, so my instinct is to add it to the ignore list, but I thought I'd ask and make sure. Th...

Is python good enough for big applications

From the moment I faced python the only thing I can say for it is "It is awesome". I am using Django framework for it and I am amazed how quick the things happen and how developer friendly this language is. But from many sides I hear that Python is scripting language, and very useful for small things, experiments etc. So the question is...

hmail Server Error

I'm using WAMP server for my Web Development. and now i want to integrate it with hMail Server (to make me can test php mail function locally) but when i want to test it, i get this error the error is like this Test: Collect server details hMailServer version: hMailServer 5.3.2-B1769 Database type: MySQL Test: Test IPv6 IPv6 support ...

Automatically detect how bright a user's monitor is?

I have web application and have noticed that there exists a huge variation in users' monitor brightness settings. The brighter a user's monitor, the more washed about my web applications colors look. Is there a way to automatically detect the user's monitor brightness, without the user's involvement, so that I can programmatically adju...

jQuery later than window load

I am using Cufon.replace to font replace some text on the site. Currently in IE8 standards mode when this is run outside a $(document).ready it is only happening ~50% of the time the rest of the time the DOM changes have occurred (viewing with IE8 built in dev toolbar) but no text is displayed. Disabling the replace, and applying it man...

How to create checkboxes from ArrayCollection

I have an ArrayCollection [{category: "fiction", title: "The Time Machine", author: "H.G. Wells"},...] of objects from which I want to create checkboxes that: Are divided into sections with section headers Are displayed horizontally, i.e. the checkboxes appear left to right and continue onto the following line Anyone know how to achi...

Social Networking framework for Java

Social Networking I think Java have Apache Shindig as a social networking framework (hi5). Oh my, their documentation is close to nothing. I was wondering what other good Java framework for social networking that people have used (please, if u give me a list of 40 different frameworks, it would just confused me a lot more). Good meani...

What language should I use for a planned website?

I need to create a simple website/webpage, a questionnaire. So I need to create a webpage that has many forms. For example, a form asking, "Are you Male or Female?". If "Female" is chosen, I would like a form to pop up below it asking "Are You pregnant?". But this page will have many more questions. I know about HTML, but what about t...

How do I create a documentFragment in GWT?

Creating a document fragment using plain Javascript is dead simple: var docFragment = document.createDocumentFragment();. However, in GWT, this does not appear to be available, though there is a DocumentFragment interface in package com.google.gwt.xml.client that does not appear to be applicable. Does anyone know of a way, either using ...

CSS: Padding issue. Need help please

Hi I'm experiencing a strange CSS spacing issue in Chrome (but not in Firefox and/or IE) My site is: http://tinyurl.com/33oxwg The vertical spacing in Firefox between the "Real Estate Search" (H2 tag) and the form input field for "San Francisco, CA" (#city-field input tag) is perfect, but in Chrome, Chrome is applying more/extra verti...

Are there any tools online to create animation like the one for "Google priority inbox" ?

This is for a one man startup. For a while I was wondering what kind of animation to create, till I saw the one for Google priority Inbox. Very simple & intuitive. Are there any tools online using which I can create something like that ? Should be simple, in the sense, point & click & enter. I know hiring someone would be better ...

New at webbased games need help

Im in the beginning of coding a webbased game, and I have pretty much everything clear to me except one thing. Im generating code that is saved in a database to be used later. The code is basicly cordinates on where a specific visualized object is on the screen at a specific time....think of a horserace and i want to represent the horse....

GWT focus on button in dialog

I'm having a terrible time trying to manage focus on a GWT dialog. I'm trying to put together a very keyboard-friendly interface, and so when my dialog comes up (a simple Yes/No/Cancel affair) I need to have keyboard focus automatically shift to the "Yes" button. Yet despite my best efforts I can't seem to wrangle the focus where it need...

Is there any kind of idiots guide to deploying your ASP.NET MVC website in one click?

Hello. I'm about to begin building a website using the ASP.NET MVC framework and I'm trying to find a good solution to 1)Source Control Management and 2)Deployment. For the SCM, I'm probably going to use SourceGear since it integrates into Visual Studio nicely, but for deployment, I don't even know where to start. Up until know, most ...

Error Handling in Web Design

I'm thinking about some optimal methods for gracefully handling errors on a website. I'm thinking that two modes will dictate how errors are handled: Development Mode Shows all notices, warning, and fatal errors on the view they are generated from Errors are displayed in raw format Production Mode Hide all notices and warnings, no...

Traversing an XML file using YUI 2.8 library

I have a requirement to parse/traverse an XML file using the YUI 2.8 library. From the YUI's manual page of DataSource, I could get info about how to get the XML file using XHRDataSource and then set the response type and response schema (understood it after so many readings :P ). But, after setting up the DataSource, I don't know what...