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Good examples of web based business apps?

I want to get more inspiration and ideas for creating web based business applications. These apps have treeviews, tabs, grid, forms, panels..etc. I develop apps but want to improve my design skills. So I would like to look at very good looking online business apps which have good use of text and background colors, good use of a general t...

How to detect user time-zone in sign up forms?

Time zones can be hard to select from dozens of options. I would like to make this process simpler. I saw some forms in the wild that can do the best guess. I Goggled for a solution but with out any luck. Do any one have an idea how to do it? ...

gadget / widget manager

Does anybody know of any pre-canned gadget/widget management framework (along the lines of iGoogle etc) that I would be able to use on an ASP.NET MVC site (presumably loading divs via jQuery etc)? In particular, I'd rather not write all the selection / location code if there is something decent already available. (I would expect to writ...

Ads with a JavaFX applet based website

What is the best way to make a website based on JavaFX supported with ad revenue? Do you have to put the ads out side of the applet in the regular html space, or can you use JWebPane to render the add inside the applet? ...

c# check files on server using web client

Hello, C# 2008 I have using the WebClient DownloadFile method. I can download the files I want. However, the client has insisted on creating different folders which will contain the version number. So the name of the folders would be something like this: 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, etc. So the files will be contained in the latest version ...

For the Web UI gurus

Hi everyone, I finally reached the point in my web app where implementing simple requirements is becoming overwhelming. I'm guessing it's time for a nice refactoring or a simple garbage and redo. Here are the simple requirements I need to implement on a table: 1) make the columns sortable 2) freeze the 2 header rows and first 3 colu...

Math equations on the web

What is the best way for me to render math equations on the web? I am familiar with LaTeX's math mode. ...

asp:to add web control in table cell of table control (web control ).

i have inserted a table web control in a panel.in that table 's cells i want to insert other user control like label, panel .i am not able to do that.is there any difference in normal table for layout and table web control.if it is.then how can i insert simple table in a panel. ...

Architecture: set-based data pipeline challenge

I'm working on a database driven web-application (ASP.NET, SQL 2008), which receives structured XML data from various sources. The data resembles a set, and often needs 'cleanup', so it is passed through the database as XML, and turned into a resultset for display. I'd like to capture the produced 'clean' results, and send them to an a...

Functional Style Web Frameworks

All the web frameworks that I have seen mostly follow the OO paradigm. Are there any web frameworks in Python or Ruby which follow the FP style? ...

Technologies required to build an end to end web application?

I want to develop a web application, like an online scheduler. (Yes I know it's been done a million times.) Most of my experience is in Java, so I want to leverage that when considering technologies. I've primarily been a systems developer with little exposure to UI programming, so I think this is where I will need to do most of my lear...

Simple web site on hostmonster

I have a domain registered and hosted at hostmonster. I want to create a simple web site but don't really have the skills to pick out colors and backgrounds that would look good. Does anybody know of any templates I can modify and upload create the site. Thanks in advance, Paul ...

Easiest to use web content management system

I have to choose a content management system to allow dynamic updating of website content. The amount of configuration required and the learning curve with most of these systems really seems to be a lot more than what should be necessary. I have almost set the site up with Alfresco SURF - but I just find that it makes simple things hard...

Retreiving data using WebRequest

Having nicked some code from msdn I'm miffed that it doesn't work exactly as I want straight away. I'm trying to use google translate to, well, translate some stuff for me on the fly. The problem is that t5he responseFromServer doesn't contain the translated text, nor does the source when I look at it using a browser although when lookin...

Which MVC framework

The following criteria has to be met: stable release (>= 1.0) strong community (e.g. lots of forum posts) active development (new releases coming out reasonably often) good documentation important: support (plugin, library, component) for embedding videos (videos will be hosted on local server, not on public video service provider). Ex...

Web: solution for image rotate and zoom

I have a web page which displays a large image, for example a page from a magazine. I have no control over the image size or orientation. It's possible that the image may need to be rotated by the user to orient it correctly. Are there any Javascript or Flash solutions that will allow someone to rotate and zoom a given image? Ideally I'...

Where can I find a worldwide list of IATA cities with airports?

Hi, I am writing an app to display flights between cities and want to include a combo with cities/countries with airports for the person to select. Then I call a GDS web service to display flight info. But the GDS does not supply worldwide IATA cities/airports with one call. Does anyone know of a suitable source where I can obtain this ...

Best web server for Microsoft Windows to execute cgi

Is Apache configured for windows the best way to go? Does it have any issues running cgi? ...

XmlBeans versus Axis for Web Service client stubs

Has anyone had any personal experience on why XmlBeans might be preferred over Axis for invoking Web Services? ...

Using protobuf in WCF services

My asp.net web pages are on IIS web server and it communicates with WCF services(sitting on windows 2008 app server) using basic HTTP binding. The performance of my wcf services doesnt seem to be that good and I want to improve the same.Also, I need to balance on scalability as my site will be having a very high traffic. HTTP compressio...