I've been tasked with the awesome responsibility of trying to document the advantages of using JEE for a web app over .NET. Of course via Google I am mostly getting back blog posts on how an Int is an object in Java, or a list of code comparisons. No real hard evidence or numbers. Is anybody aware of any legitimate studies trying to pro...
I've just put my new server up on an IP address with a domain pointing to it. I need to be able to remote admin it. I've opened the firewall for Remote Desktop and HTTP traffic. Is this going to be secure enough? I guess I should probably rename the administrator user... ...
I have a huge web app that is having issues with memory leak in IE 6. Fixing a memory leak in a 5 line code sample that demonstrates the problem is easy. But if I have a very huge application, where should a start from? ...
Of course I am aware of Ajax, but the problem with Ajax is that the browser should poll the server frequently to find whether there is new data. This increases server load. Is there any better method (even using Ajax) other than polling the server frequently? ...
I'm using a Visual Studio web setup project to install an application that extends the functionality of Project Server. I want to call a method from the PSI (Project Server Interface) from one of the custom actions of my setup project, but every time a get a "401 Unauthorized access" error. What should I do to be able to access the PSI. ...
I am looking for a text editor to be used in a web page. Where users can format the text and get a WYSIWYG experience. Doesn't need to be too fancy. But has to be easy to use and integrate into the page. Has to generate HTML as output. Support AJAX (one I checked works only with standard form submit) and has to be small in terms of downl...
I'm working on a web application that needs to prints silently -- that is without user involvement. What's the best way to accomplish this? It doesn't like it can be done with strictly with Javascript, nor Flash and/or AIR. The closest I've seen involves a Java applet. I can understand why it would a Bad Idea for just any website to ...
Hi, I was wondering how as semantic service like Open Calais figures out the names of companies, or people, tech concepts ,keywords etc from a piece of text. Is it because they have a large database that they match the text against? How would a service like Zemanta know what images to suggest to a piece of text for instance? Was hop...
How do we create a search plugin for Safari? Like this post ...
Hi, can you recommend some good ASP.NET tutorials or a good book? Should I jump right to ASP.NET MVC/html/javascript or learn web forms first? Thanks ...
I want to show HTML content inside FLASH. Is there some way to do this? I am talking about full blown HTML (with JavaScript if possible) ...
Has anyone had any success running two different web servers -- such as Apache and CherryPy -- alongside each other on the same machine? I am experimenting with other web servers right now, and I'd like to see if I can do my experiments while keeping my other sites up and running. You could say that this isn't so much a specific-softwa...
I'm about to start a fairly Ajax heavy feature in my company's application. What I need to do is make an Ajax callback every few minutes a user has been on the page. I don't need to do any DOM updates before, after, or during the callbacks. I don't need any information from the page, just from a site cookie which should always be sen...
I'm asking this question purely from a usability standpoint: Should a website expand/stretch to fill the viewing area when you resize a browser window? I know for sure there are the obvious cons: Wide columns of text are hard to read Writing html/css using percents can be a pain It makes you vulnerable to having your design stretched ...
Hello everyone. My goal is to maintain web file server separately from main ASP.NET application server for better scalability. Web file server will store a lot of files downloaded by users. So the question is: Is it worth to adopt FreeBSD + Apache + ZFS, or good old IIS will be сonvinient enough? ...
What are the most user-friendly color combinations for Web 2.0 websites, such as background, button colors, etc.? ...
Watching SO come online has been quite an education for me. I'd like to make a checklist of various vunerabilities and exploits used against web sites, and what programming techniques can be used to defend against them. What categories of vunerabilities? crashing site breaking into server breaking into other people's logins spam soc...
Help! I have an Axis web service that is being consumed by a C# application. Everything works great, except that arrays of long values always come across as [0,0,0,0] - the right length, but the values aren't deserialized. I have tried with other primitives (ints, doubles) and the same thing happens. What do I do? I don't want to ch...
Currently I am setting up an application that can deploy other web apps to Tomcat 6 clusters. It is set up right now to have a one to one relationship between deployed web application and a cluster. My current reasoning for this is so that I can change the JVM args of the Tomcat server without disrupting other applications and so that ...
What is a good, simple encryption scheme for protecting passwords in a database? I don't necessarily need anything that's hyper-secure nor do I need anything that's lightning fast, but those things would be nice. Primarily, I just want something that's easy to implement without being terribly slow or insecure. ...