web

Best practices for online help

Hello, we're currently developing a fairly complex web portal. To improve the user experience, we want to provide a context-sensitive online help system that can aid the user in understanding certain aspects of the site. In our case, the site has a variety of widgets that display all kinds of tabular data, graphs, etc. For instance, one...

What is the fastest way to open an excel file from a web page?

Backstory: In the past users have complained about how long it takes to generate an excel file export. I fixed the speed problem. In fact, exports are so fast that I can afford to create a temporary xls file during every page load with along with a corresponding link. (The files are cleaned after two hours - the load is light enough for...

Whatever Happened to VRML?

Back in the late 1990s, when I was at grad school VRML was going to take over the world. My peers and I built all manner of useful and interesting things with it by hooking it up to Java and Javascript code. Of course back then computers were many times slower than they are now - multicore CPUs were largely the stuff of science fiction ...

making iphone picker/combo box links

I'm building a navigation drop down/combobox menu for a mobile website. it works fine on no iphones. essentially you click an item from the drop down and then it links you to the appropriate page. when I do this with the iphone it brings up the picker wheel, I click my selection, and then nothing happens. I'm fairly new to building s...

need php api help

hi friends i am trying to solve how i can access the halo reach api for get states bungie has released a api for this here is the link http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/statsapi/Group/Resources/Article.aspx?cid=545064 how can i access this service via php and display some stats need help thanks i am trying like this <?php require_once('...

Methods of reducing URL size?

Hello... So, we have a very large and complex website that requires a lot of state information to be placed in the URL. Most of the time, this is just peachy and the app works well. However, there are (an increasing number of) instances where the URL length gets reaaaaallllly long. This causes huge problems in IE because of the URL l...

Is there a way to make a GET request without getting the body of the content?

I'm trying to do HEAD requests to follow 302 links, however this link: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&amp;fd=R&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrJk-F7Dmshmtze2yhifxRsv8sRg&amp;url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1647243/20100907/story.jhtml is troublesome because a HEAD request returns a 200 OK and a GET request returns the expected 302 Status cod...

Suggest a better way to make online coding contest website

Hello i want to develop a online coding contest website on which a user select a programming language(c,c++,java) then writes it's code and then click on compile and it's code get compiled and the output will be shown(with errors if any)? so my question is that: is there any existing framework or a already developed solution from...

Hibernate: Better monolithic class or many class maps?

I am making a website with GWT and using Hibernate to connect to the database. Every time a user loads a page and it is required to grab information off the database. Is it better to have monolithic classes containing all the getters/setters for the tables, and select the information as needed, or is it better to have many different cla...

How to integrate sharepoint document into web application and adding credentials for external users

Hi, Being new to integrating sharepoint documents into web applications I am struggling with the following task, so any help or guidance would be very much appreciated. I have a page in my web application that needs to display a document from sharepoint. I use the appropiate sharepoint web service to get a list of all the documents in...

How to get started with load balancing?

I have an JSP/Servlet web app that runs on one server. While this server holds up for now, I would like to add another server which will also give me the advantage of taking one down for maintenance/upgrade etc. The problem: I have no idea how to do this. How do I get a request that goes to a specific ip to go to two two different boxes...

How to force usage TLS instead of SSL in .Net

How can I force my .Net application to establish connection with some Java Web Service using TLS instead of SSL ? Proxy to Web Service is generated as standard Web Reference (not WCF). Web Service url is https://........ . Some details: From my .Net 4.0 application I'm invoking Java Web Service hosted on JBoss & Redhat. This web servi...

Opting for a messaging system over web services such as SOAP

I'm working on a project at the moment that involves building a system in conjunction with another technical partner. The system will provide "monitoring" type functionality and operations will be long running with numerous "events" being returned and processed / returned to the user. My initial reaction was to build a web service that...

Porting an opengl app to browsers

What is the most common way to port an application so it can run on browsers? I've always thought that you need to make an ActiveX component for this, but when I saw cooliris (cooliris.com), it seems that there must be a better way to do this. Does anyone know? ...

A good library or some good tutorial for making secure chat web application using PHP,JAVASCRIPT

hello i want to make a secure web based chat application(just for the learning purpose) so suggest me a good library or tutorial page for that. i want to include these feature in my chat application: 1.one to one chat 2.one to may chat(group chat) 3.online friends should be displayed. 4.store chat history. i am using: PHP,JAVASCRI...

HTTP requests from app disappearing between sender's network/proxy and our web host

I don't have very much information to work with here, yet. Our app sends an HTTP query to our server, and in all the cases we've used until now it has worked fine. But for one client, whose network goes through a proxy, their logs indicate that the request goes out successfully, but no reply ever returns, and our web server shows nothi...

Javascript MVC framework

Has anyone used Javascript MVC Framework(s) to develop a production web app? If so what has been your experience? Thanks ...

Web Development -Python!

Hi am trying to learn web development using python. I have some previous experience using php but as such am a total amateur. I am using web2py after dabbling around with django,pylons,turbogears stuff etc and find myself quite productive with the framework. However I want to know what is the entire process in web development. I mean , t...

How to print using the IWebBrowserApp ??

Hi, I'm using IWebBrowserApp to open up a URL in Interenet Explorer in ma console application. Now I also need to print the content in the Internet Explorer through my code in C#. Can any1 pls help m eout. Thank you. ...

Silverlight 4 WCF or RIA services

Hello I'm very new to silverlight and I'm thikning which way to go. I'm in planning phase of my new project which should be built on silverlight. The problem is that I want to have my own DAL -> BLL on server side, and WCF service, which will talk to Silverlight should be consumable by other applications too, including other technologie...