web-development

User Activity Profile and Statistics

I am just exploring on what is the best practice/framework for implementing feature for collecting and displaying user activity statistics that is user specific and site relating to login user activities in ASP.NET. For example, I will want to know for a particular login user on my site, which site he/she has visited in the last day, wee...

Rebuild existing webapp : .NET or PHP

We are looking at doing a 'version 2' of our web application that is currently written in PHP with a MySQL database. Since it has been in a constant state of development for about 5 years with numerous developers, over time you look at it as a whole and think 'we could do this so much better if we started again'. So we are looking at do...

best secure / performance oriented web developement language

We have planned to develop social network.And we are searching for server scripting language which is fast and secure.How to optimise a language and bring security to a language.Is there any framework available for security or any language . ...

is oops is the solution to improve php security?

now we are working in one project.in that project we choosed HTML5 and CSS3 designed. but still we have confuse on server side scripting, whether php,ruby,python,scala,and more and more..our requirements is nothing but SERVER SCRIPTING LANGUAGE:our server side scripting language is secure and more helpfull(ease of development,security...

What are the necessary and most important things, we should do at validation, if an web application gets the users input or parameters?

I am always thinking about validation in any kind on the webpage (PHP or ASP, it doesn't matter), but never find a good and accurate answer. For example, a I have some GET-Parameter, which defines a SQL query like DESC oder ASC. (SQL-Injection?) Or I have a comment-function for user, where the data is also saved in a database. Is it e...

What is the better site localization method?

I recently joined a team that was formerly a one man show to maintain and develop a company's PHP-mysql website. The current localization method is, for each section of the site, there exists a file ending in _en.php and _fr.php that contains long lists of same named variables with text in the appropriate language. At the top of each c...

Searching, sorting and paginating large datasets on the client

Hi, I have been using the DataTables plugin for jQuery (http://www.datatables.net) to search, sort and paginate tabular data on the client. The simplicity of implementation and smooth user experience have been a huge win. Now I have a requirement to implement the same functionality (search, sort, paginate) over a larger set of data, ma...

I can't figure EtherPad out.

I feel like this is probably a pretty dumb question, but I am just completely lost. I have seen (and tried) about ten different ways to install EtherPad on my system, but absolutely nothing on how to actually incorporate it into my web page. One page seemed like it was telling me to open up "http://localhost:3306/" (or something along th...

Are there alternatives to ASP.NET for C# web development?

Lately, I've been thinking that I'd like to try some new ideas and a new approach to web application design. I'm mostly used to using ASP.NET (.NET 2.0) but I've toyed with the ASP.NET MVC library a little bit as well. While both are powerful and interesting, I'd really like something more... basic. Is there anything like that out the...

What are the TOP 5 print and digital industry publications I should be reading

I work in the enterprise web software industry. Currently I work with everything Microsoft. What are the TOP 5 print publications I should be reading to deepen my understanding of enterprise development, gain technological, business, and industry insight. Additionally what are the TOP 5 digital publications/web sites? ...

Servlets and backend relationship

Hi, We can say Servlets are back end right? An interviewer once said "Servlets are not back end and for example Spring, EJB do". Is it right? Even spring MVC internally uses servlets to handle the requests right? Thank You. ...

How to protect against direct access to images?

I would like to create a web site with many images. But I would like to protect against direct access to images, e.g. direct links to images without visiting the web site. What is the preferred way to do this? And what are the alternatives with Pros and cons? I have some ideas (I don't know if they are possible): File permissions PH...

Does changing the innerText of a DOM element result in a new layout caculation/render?

I know that certain changes to the DOM of a web-page (by JavaScript) will result in the rendering engine calculating a new layout for rendering (not sure if my terminology is correct). I have a process that updates data fairly frequently with comet style long-polling requests. Some of these updates are fairly frequent. I know that a...

web application design problem related to search engine optimization

Hello, We have a website which has a decent customer base. We recently started a subdomain which will be used to serve specific content from the website. We need to redirect the users to subdomain when he/she tries to access the designated content from the old domain. For example I have old domain www.marketplace.com and a subdomain...

Is it worth getting a clean error log on production site?

2 days ago we switched in our office from PHP 5.2.x to 5.3.x and it caused some problems at first, but we managed to fix 'em pretty fast. Since lots of bugfixes were done by looking at error logs, something popped up in my mind. Well, there are all these PHP Notices about undefined variables and other, as I consider, not urgent, messag...

delphi for php form in center

i have created a delphi for php page in radphp , how can i make it center of the browser is it possible to make it only using php code. ...

Heroku + Logs Command :: Can Logs Detail can be increased at Heroku.

Is it possible to see the last log of Heroku server. I have used heroku logs to see the last process but it shows limited log. But i want to see more process done at heroku. So what command or what process should I follow to see the logs at Heroku. Thanks in advance. ...

colors don't match on FF on Mac

On this page, the <body> element has a background color of #77BFBC. The image (rv-banner.jpg) set as the background of the <header> element also has a background color of #77BFBC. On windows (either FF or IE), the two colors blend perfectly. However on FF on the Mac, there is a noticeable difference between the background color of the ...

Text management in a web application

Hy, I developing ASP.Net for some years now and every time (very often) I code a new asp.net application I need to make sure that all the texts (labels, buttons, … ) I use in the Application must be managed and updated by an admin. Therefor I implemented a own simple component, which updates the data to a Strings table in the application...

how to decode URL parameters in struts web app?

I have added CharacterEncodingFilter class to encode each parameter which comes in.All went well.. I am using STruts2, display tag, tiles.. My app data contains special characters.(for e.g ™).I am seaching the data with this special character. in the display tag, for pagination and sorting it automatically creaing the hiberlink. These s...