I'm looking to get a logo designed, but all my designer friends/colleagues are pretty busy. Since I've never done it before, I thought it would be interesting to crowd source the design. Does anyone know of any good design crowd sourcing sites? ...
I have a few sites on a shared host that is running Apache 2. I would like to compress the HTML, CSS and Javascript that is delivered to the browser. The host has disabled mod_deflate and mod_gzip, so these options are out. I do have PHP 5 at my disposal, though, so I could use the gzip component of that. I am currently placing the foll...
I hear very positive things about Agile Development, in particular as a way to keep the customer involved throughout the process, and therefore maximising the likelihood of building what the customer actually needs. The issue I have is the vast majority of new/potential customers want fixed quotes which to my mind forces us down the pre...
Ajax, Flex and Silverlight are a few ways to make more interactive web applications. What kinds of factors would you consider when deciding which to use for a new web application? Does any one of them offer better cross-platform compatibility, performance, developer tools or community support? ...
I would like to use Haskell more for my projects, and I think if I can get started using it for web apps, it would really help that cause. I have tried happs once or twice but had trouble getting off the ground. Are there simpler/more conventional (more like lamp) frameworks out there that I can use or should I just give happs another tr...
This question talks about different payment processors and what they cost, but I'm looking for the answer to what do I need to do if I want to accept credit card payments? Assume I need to store credit card numbers for customers, so that the obvious solution of relying on the credit card processor to do the heavy lifting is not availabl...
When java was young, people were excited about writing applets. They were cool and popular, for a little while. Now, I never see them anymore. Instead we have flash, javascript, and a plethora of other web app-building technologies. Why don't sites use java applets anymore? I'm also curious: historically, why do you think this occur...
MooTools/Cappuccino/SproutCore/Django/RubyOnRails/Pylons/jQuery/etc Help, too many buzzwords out there. I spend more time reading about them than actually having time to learn and use them...what to do? ...
Does filling out HTML meta description/keyword tags matter for SEO? ...
Say a user is browsing a website, and then performs some action which changes the database (let's say they add a comment). When the request to actually add the comment comes in, however, we find we need to force them to login before they can continue. Assume the login page asks for a username and password, and redirects the user back to...
I am not concerned about other kinds of attacks. Just want to know whether HTML Encode can prevent all kinds of XSS attacks. Is there some way to do an XSS attack even if HTML Encode is used? ...
Are there specific tools to perform the following job or there is a suite of tools that help me do the following: How can I check page load times? How can I track down a page that hogs memory? How can I track a page that consumes a lot of CPU cycles? I just want to glean from the experience of this forum and come across a holistic v...
I am developing a web app which requires a username and password to be stored in the web.Config, it also refers to some URLs which will be requested by the web app itself and never the client. I know the .Net framework will not allow a web.config file to be served, however I still think its bad practice to leave this sort of information...
Sure, we can use a simple bulleted list or a mindmap. But, there must be a better, more interactive way. What do you use when starting your website architecture? ...
I have a quandary. My web application (C#, .Net 3.0, etc) has Themes, CSS sheets and, of course, inline style definitions. Now that's alot of chefs adding stuff to the soup. All of this results, not surprisingly, in my pages having bizarre styling on occasion. I am sure that all these styles are applied in a hierarchical method (alth...
My team has just developed a website for a client and wants to test that it'll work under the expected usage for 50 simultaneous users. So the plan is to write a test program that will act as 50 simultaneous users. We need this test program to be able to: Be logged in with a cookie. Our session ids are not embedded in our URLs and w...
I have ASP.NET web pages for which I want to build automated tests (using WatiN & MBUnit). How do I start the ASP.Net Development Server from my code? I do not want to use IIS. ...
Will the code below work if the clock on the server is ahead of the clock on the client? Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(-1)) EDIT: the reason I ask is on one of our web apps some users are claiming they are seeing the pages ( account numbers, etc ) from a user that previously used that machine. Yet we use the line ...
Coming from a corporate IT environment, the standard was always creating a class library project for each layer, Business Logic, Data Access, and sometimes greater isolation of specific types. Now that I am working on my own web application project, I don't see a real need to isolate my code in this fashion. I don't have multiple app...
I'm working on an ASP.NET website which targets desktop browsers. We want to enable an optional mobile view (e.g. http://m.sample.com) which will offer a few simple pages which will be mostly text. There will be not need for AJAX or even Javascript, and there's no user input - it's really just tables of text with a few links to navigate ...