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Intranet Vs Internet Web application considerations

What are the differences in considerations in respect to designing or developing an Intranet and an Internet application ? ...

Is there way for a GWT program to tell if it's in hosted or web mode?

I would like my GWT program to be able to determine whether it's in hosted mode or in web mode. Is there a way to do this? Thanks! ...

Current Window should seen on the top.

Hi, I am making an web based appliaction in java (using jsp). When the appliaction is invoked login page will come, when the user enter the valid credientials, he will be taken to the index page. But the problem is, when the login is success, the index page is coming but it is opening behind the login page. (means login page appears on ...

Wiki or CMS

What are the differences between a wiki and a CMS? Is there any? ...

Selecting a non-standard image area in a web application

This question is for a web application. And maybe it's a stupid question but I was wondering if there is a way to generate a polygon with 4 points, so that the user can himself drag each point to create it's own (As an example, let's say that we want to remove a window from an image that it is not at a normal angle) .Is it possible?. ...

Is there an upper limit to z-index values in web browsers?

I have a case where a 3rd party ad is bleeding through my modal window implementation. I'd like to up the z-index of the modal overlay as high as possible so the ad won't show on top of it. Is there a limit to z-index values? I'm sure if there is it varies by browser. Anyone know? ...

Java Web Application Sync Question

Let's say I have a class in my web app called class "Foo". It has an initialise() method that is called when the bean is created using Spring. The initialise() method then tries to load an external service and assign it to a field. If the service could not be contacted, the field will be set to null. private Service service; publi...

Operating System from User-Agent HTTP Header

Is there a good, up-to-date listing anywhere that maps User-Agent HTTP Header strings --> operating systems? ...

Finding browser local time in ASP.NET

How do you find out the local time of the user browsing your website in ASP.NET? ...

Secure iframe on unsecure page in a different domain

Our company is looking into allowing third party sites to use our online checkout system. A client has stated that they would like to be able to use a lightbox style popup to display the checkout. And they would like this to be available on every page of the site, therefore mostly unsecure pages. Our checkout system and the client site ...

Membership and Role Providers in ASP.NET 2.0 with non SQL Server provider?

I have quickly read (and will read with more care soon) the article of Scott Allen concerning the possibility to use an other provider of the default SQL Express or SQL Server database to use the "Membership and Role Providers" for ASP.NET. We will soon need to open a part of our project to some client via the web and I thought about us...

Best way to reverse-engineer a web service interface from a WSDL file?

I've inherited a WSDL file for a web service on a system that I don't have access to for development and testing. I need to generate a web service that adheres to that WSDL. The wrapper is .NET, but if there's an easy way to do this with another platform, we might be able to look at that. The production web service is Java-based. What'...

Why do browsers not have a file upload progress bar?

I wonder why no browser out there has such simple but essential feature. Am I missing something? Is there a technical reason? I'm tired of all those javascript/flash/java hacks out there ... ...

General question, what do you want from a web framework?

In a MVC application, what are some of the components that make up the application. What tools and functionality is missing that you would like to have. Regardless of the server-side language, what would you want? I see a lot in my code where I code some much functionality that it seems should already be there. I looked at Google web...

Any active Bold for Delphi users ?

What are you using as a persistance framework when programming in Delphi? If the application is growing it soon became really complicated to handle the model in SQL ? Bold is a persistance framework for Delphi win32 that really deserve more attention. I use it daily and using OCL instead of SQL to get data from the database saves a lot o...

How to change url for some sites automatically in Firefox 3

I want some particular urls like "springer.com" to automatically convert to "springer.com.proxy1.mycollege.edu". The second url takes me to springer site through my college library gateway; I am able to access some parts that would otherwise be restricted. Is there some way to convert the url as above automatically in firefox 3? ...

Web Application Infrastructure

I have custom coded several enterprise applications for mid to large organizations to use internally (some with a minimal external footprint). I now have plans for a web project that may (hopefully) see a large userbase with more daily traffic than my previous projects have ever attained. Obviously I want my design to be scalable and m...

Image stretching and resizing

I have a picture that I need to resize to a specific dimension and then move one of the corner to a place higher than before so the image is not rectangular anymore but some kind of polygon. Is there a library that could help me with this kind of image manipulation or does someone knows the name of this operation? This is for a .NET app...

Web Subversion repository-browsing tool, with a twist

I've seen a number of questions asking about a web SVN repository-browsing tool. However, of the ones I've taken a look at, they either require a specific username/password to be configured, rely on default access to the repository being available, or require a separate user database outside Subversion. In a corporate setting, SVN repo...

Calling a Webservice from VBA using SOAP

I'm trying to call a web service in an Excel Macro: Set objHTTP = New MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest objHTTP.Open "post", "https://www.server.com/EIDEServer/EIDEService.asmx" objHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml" objHTTP.setRequestHeader "SOAPAction", "PutSchedule" objHTTP.send strXML And I get back the following response: <?xm...