web-development

Looking for a web-based log collection/display application

A project I'm working on currently involves using a disparate set of technologies, including .NET, PHP, Asterisk and bash scripting. Each of the applications in use produces some logging; technical logging for administrators and user logging. The technical logging is easy, all logs are written to disk as text files. For the user logging...

looking for emacs templates for javascript

does anyone know a emacs template for javascript? in particular, am looking for template for either yasnippet or autocomplete. one minute google or emacswiki search didn't find anything. (am already using both js2-mode and js-mode (epresso), they don't appear to have name completion or template builtin. ...

Adding download option to website

Hi, I have been roped in to help design a website for a local charity. I am currently a university student that has experience designing sites to good effect (Within university). I am comfortable using the relevant languages and packages. What I am not so sure about is hosting. If I have a site that has a newsletter, for example. I...

Web Management Tools

HI, I am designing a site for a local charity, and the people that work there have no real technical skills. Can anybody recommend any easy to use and simple web management tools that they could use to update the site? I will be coding it in asp.net and c#. Thanks ...

How to implement DRY principle in ASP.NET web app

Hi, I'm soon to kick off a web app using ASP.NET that allows for the manual entry of new data and update of existing data. The company has an existing template that uses a 3 tier structure with standard user interface, business layer and data layer. However they may go with ASP.NET MVC2 if they can find a good enough reason to switch fro...

how to make facebook recognize my webpage images

i developed a website ut when i share any page in facebook facebook should recognize my page and select images to select a thumbnail but this do not happen in my website as if facebook can not recognize my page or cannot read it and select images from it what should i do to let facebook recognize my page and load all images in the ...

The simplest way to allow a web user to update a text file using PHP and Javascript?

Problem: I dont know the simplest way to allow a single web viewer to update data in a text file on a server. (ie. only 1 person will be changing the data.) Objective: To make a prototype web application just one person needs to input in the start and end dates of new assignments and locations of staff and the whole company can visual...

How do I access part of a list in Jinja2

I'm trying to use the jinja2 templating langauge to return the last n(say, 5) posts in my posts list: {% for recent in site.posts|reverse|slice(5) %} {% for post in recent %} <li> <a href="/{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li> {% endfor %} {% endfor %} This is returning the whole list though. How do you strip the...

Ext-js: How to resize / close browser window?

Does Ext-js come with functionality to manipulate the browser window? Specifically, I want to resize and close the current browser window. (Browser window, the browser's native window, as opposed to Ext-js' widgets). It it possible or must I resort to plain old javascript? ...

Distributing web traffic to various servers?

Something I have been curious about for quite sometime now. How exactly do you distribute your web traffic to various servers? And when do you know when to distribute to another server? For sites like Facebook, they have one point of entry via the domain www.facebook.com so if server A is running at 90% of what it can or whatever how d...

Trouble in installing the openinviter

How to fix the installation error in openinviter? While installing openinviter i get the following error "Unable to write stats. /var/www/open/openinviter_stats.sqlite is not writable" Screenshots of the error: 1. http://bit.ly/9gK8Nr ...

Who benefits (or is at a disadvantage) with MVC: the Developer or the Designer?

When comparing MVC to ASP.NET Forms, which one offers a better design-time experience for a web designer? ... which is better for the developer? I was just looking at the new Razor MVC syntax and think that designers may simply delete stray } that are used in for..each loops. One might say that ASP.NET WebForms offers a better web des...

How to index a web site.

I'm asking on behalf of somebody, so I don't have too many details. What options are available for indexing site content in an ASP.NET web site? I suspect SQL Server's Full Text index may be used if the page content is stored in the database. How would I index dynamic and static content if that content isn't stored in the DB, but in ...

CSS: how to "plot" invisible text over an image?

Say I have a webpage containing a 200x200 image. At coordinates 50,50,150,150 (x1, y1, x2, y2), say I have the letter "A". How do I do the following in CSS: Overlay the image with the character "A" starting at the coordinates x1, y1? Size the text such that it fits x1, y1, x2, y2? Make the text invisible (but still on "top" of the ima...

Transparent Single Sign On across multiple websites

I have a network of sites. Some of them as subdomains and other as domains. I want to create a central login place for all my users like http://login.example.com/ where they can log in. I have a sign in link on all the sites which the user can click to sign in. If they sign in once, they should be transparently logged in to all all other...

Multiple websites from a single service and model layer

I want to do something similar to stackexchange but with their own domain. I want to have 1 single database, repository/model layer, service layer on 1 server. Then on a different server or same server, I have a web project which can access those layers. Is there a way to achieve this without a hit in performance on these sites? I'm th...

VS2010 - How do you handle long paths with packaged (One-Click) deployments in?

I have a website in VS2010 with Publish settings that I use for deploying to local environments. However, I want my automated build to to create the deployment package in FileSystem format. I updated my build targets for the project to "Build;Package", which works. The problem is it creates an extremely long file path inside a folder c...