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Event on HTML selection

Is there an event for situations where something is selected on an HTML page like arbitrary text within a span element? Does such a thing exist or does one need to poll at regular interval & analyze the window.getSelection() ? I would like to trap this event type from within a browser extension (Chrome). ...

Best Ways to send message or data to fax machine

I currently am working on a web application that needs to collect data from a form and will take the information and put it in a report format and sent it to a fax machine and print it out. What is the easiest way to do this. I would like it to act similar to collecting informastion off of a form and then sending an email, but I would l...

What is the best way to deal with IE compatibility issue?

I think everything agrees with me here, but IE is the most incompatible browser out there. I deal with ie's incompatibility using different particular css files for each version, to display it correctly? Is there a better way? ...

Which Lightbox implementation allows to display larger preview immediately on mouse enter?

There are quite a few Lightbox implementations. Is there any such that it displays a larger version of the image as soon as the user enters the thumbnail with the mouse? The preview should be displayed next to mouse position. The shaded lightbox effect is not required. ...

feasibility of Joomla or Drupal

Hi, I would like to know how feasible is Joomla or Drupal towards a website development which has around 80 web pages? I'm a part time website designer who does a bit of server end development as well using PHP and Python/Django. However, i have never attempted developing a website of this scale. There is a lot of static content on this...

Best practices on what data to collect in an in-app web analytics

Hi! In our SaaSy webapp we need to collect Google Analytics-like data (like, what pages were visited, how many 404s where there, etc.). I wonder if there are any best practices on what pieces of information should be collected (like, IP, User Agent, etc.) and how should these logs be stored. Requirements on what statistics we're going t...

How To Know the number of seeds/peers for a torrent in PHP

Hi my question is that when you place a .torrent file for download in your website,how can you get the number of Seeds & Peers ,... for that torrent and inform the user of them? ...

RAD Visual Web Application Creator/ Builder/ Designer for PHP

Hi all, I want to see if any of you know a (free and open source will be ideal) tool/ app that can help build a php web application very quickly without investing too much time on writing codes, preferring drag and drop/ point and click work-flow designer for logic design (see Agile from Outsystems below). Plus, visual designer for the ...

Securing Web Services approach valid?

Hi , Currently I am looking at securing our web services. At the moment we are not using WCF so this is not an option. One approach I have seen and implemented locally fairly easily was the approach described in article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/wsFormsAuthentication.aspx Which describes adding a HttpModule which prompts fo...

Html POST and return the same form with the values

Hi, I'm learning web development, and I don't know how do this simple thing. I've a html form with "text", "radio" and "checkbox" controls, that POST the values to the server and it saves them, for example in a file. I save the POST in raw format: key=value&key=value&key=value&key=value and I'd like that when the user open the form ...

Need help with WCF design

I have been tasked with creating a set of web services. We are a Microsoft shop, so I will be using WCF for this project. There is an interesting design consideration that I haven't been able to figure out a solution for yet. I'll try to explain it with an example: My WCF service exposes a method named Foo(). 10 different users call...

Are global comment systems a privacy concern?

I more and more see these global login-once comment-everywhere systems on every page. I didn't do my homework of tinkering debugging and search before asking, so my question is as follows: You login on site A and leave a comment. Now you go on site B, which uses the same global comment system. At the bottom of the page a request form w...

Problem when creating Web Service

I am using Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and framework 3.5 sp1 on Windows XP sp3. I have Java service which I consume in my .NET application. When attemp to add web service I get next error: The operation could not be complited.An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format But on another machine everything works fine. There i...

What exactly is SEO friendly site?

Hey, So, I've seen web developers writing in their CV that they create "SEO friendly sites. ". Also I heard that Wordpress is SEO friendly site and other CMSs. So, what does SEO friendly site mean? I understand, that titles and URLs are probably the most important things for making good positions in google, but is there any other things...

WebApp Password Management - Hashing, Salting, etc...

Hi there. Im searching for the most secure (but yet doable) way of password management in a web app. Right now, I save the password as hash. The DB account of the app is restricted to excecution of stored procedures and I authenticate users by giving the username and the hashed password to a stored procedure that returns 1(true) or 0(...

Sending username and password to web service

I am developing a web service and I need to send a username and password to the service in a GET method. Is it OK to send this information in the uri as long as it's going over a secure channel like ssl? In other words, can I have a uri that looks like /users/{username}/{cleartext_password}? Edit: Sorry, I think I was unclear. The web s...

Web publishing system with code highlighting

I'd like to publish some of the many programs I've written on the web. Is there a syntax highlighting Linux web publishing application (CMS/Blog/RoR app) that displays syntax for C++, Python, Bash scripts, SQL, VBA, awk, Erlang, java, makefiles, Ruby, Pascal and other languages? The more syntax settings configuration files, the bette...

Cannot resolve IHttpHandler

For some reason when I am trying to create a class which implements IHttpHandler I cannot resolve IHttpHandler. Statements like: using System.Web; are not helping either. This is a class library project, I am following example here: http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020417.htm What am I doing wrong? ...

why we use webapi keys

why we generate api keys for domains to use web api when we have referrer to check the source ...

Process job in application server or in a separate process?

Say I have a web application. I have a front end web server for serving static assets and 3 http-speaking application servers. I need to process some background jobs. The natural thing to do is to start up a separate process in the background to the process the job. However, I'm wondering if that's necessary - and why this is the normal ...