web

Caching moderate amounts of data in a web app - DB or flat files?

A web app I'm working on requires frequent parsing of diverse web resources (HTML, XML, RSS, etc). Once downloaded, I need to cache these resources to minimize network load. The app requires a very straightforward cache policy: only re-download a cached resource when more than X minutes have passed since the access time. Should I: S...

Is client-side UI rendering via Javascript a good idea?

The "classic" approach to web development has been for some time a thin client and a thick server: the server generates HTML and spits it out for the browser to render only. But with current browsers (and also due to the availability of good libraries and frameworks) Javascript now works. Web devs can now pretty much assume that their Ja...

Share good examples of Web-GUIs

I am probably at the edge of etiquette here since the question is somewhat subjective, and not stricly about programming, but usability - but in the end, what is more important than the usability of the solutions we create? The idea is to "work backwards" from usability to technology: I want to see an impressive Web-GUI (show URL if po...

payment processing - pylons/python

I'm building an application that eventually needs to process cc #s. I'd like to handle it completely in my app, and then hand off the information securely to my payment gateway. Ideally the user would have no interaction with the payment gateway directly. Any thoughts? Is there an easier way? ...

how does the web pages for configuring routers/printers work

just curious to know what is the web server on which these sites work ...

How should I go about writing a Joomla! template?

I am using Joomla! CMS to develop a website. In the not-so-distant past I customized a template to schlep up a website. It was fun and interesting to tear apart the code to de-joomla!-fy the template. So interesting that in fact, I am flirting with the idea of making my own template from scratch. So, if I am to pursue this, where do I ...

tools for developing RESTful web services

What tools are recommended to aid in developing RESTful web services? For instance, a good front end for manually calling REST APIs, and a TCP/IP or HTTP monitoring tool seem like good starting points. I am looking for specific product recommendations. OS X recommendations would also be helpful. ...

Suggestions to connect Oracle db with SAP CRM via Web Service

Which Web Service platform to choose and why? On the Oracle db host we have also access to Informatica ... The amount of data to transfer is minimal - e.g. low cost solution will be appreciated The first combination which came to mind was GlassFish + Hibernate ...

Cannot add web parts to pages located in _layouts folder

I am developing a website in SharePoint 2007 where all the .aspx pages are located in a subdirectory within the _layouts directory in the 12 hive. I have designed a custom masterpage with corporate branding and I am using this masterpage in the .aspx pages. I have found that I cannot add web parts(both in-built and custom) to these .asp...

Open-Source Forum with API

Does anyone have suggestions for a PHP, Python, or J2EE-based web forum that has a good API for programmatically creating users and forum topics? Thanks In Advance -J ...

Problem with localizations in web application

I'm working on a web application using C# that has to be localized. On my login.aspx page it does not seam to find the login.aspx.resx file. I have use Tools->Generate Local Resource for the page and every thing was working fine. But now for some reason it is not able to load the resource file. In my code it calls GetLocalResourceObject...

How to deploy JDBC client app via WebStart ?

Hi all, I know that this is a very helping community.. so i hope I will get an answer for my problemt. Actually, I have a swing app which contacts an oracle database via JDBC. Now I want to deploy this via WebStart. I have a text area in the application that prints out the log messages . all goes well, jnlp downloads my application ...

With a browser, how do I know which decimal separator does the client use?

I'm developing a web application. I need to display some decimal data correctly so that it can be copied and pasted into a certain GUI application that is not under my control. The GUI application is locale sensitive and it accepts only the correct decimal separator which is set in the system. I can guess the decimal separator from Ac...

Read client page data asp.net and c#

Hi anybody know how to select and read client page data using c# and asp.net? Here I'm tring to load a page using iframe in my application. Now i want to select some specific text and want to store it in my local database. Is it possible? I'm going through snagit tool but it is capturing the selected area but unable to read the conte...

Which is it better to start programming the web with? A framework or (raw html and a server side programming language)?

I am a software "professional" with just a year's work experience in maintaining other people's badly written C++ system programming code. I see that the real action today is in the web programming world and would like a piece of it, but I am clueless about where to start. I took a look at the various web frameworks (Rails,django,zope,...

How can i make a website as a iphone native application?

Hey all.. I'm planning to convert my website into an iphone native application. I'm stuck up at the point how to achieve this. As i am new to iphone development, I'm not getting any idea on how to develop this. Initially, i have developed the first screen i.e., LOGIN screen of my application. My server is built in JAVA. I'm able to se...

Ruby on Rails: Editor for backend of the web application.

What editor can you suggest to integrate with the backend of the web app I'm currently developing? I want to allow my trusted users to add articles that would be visible on the frontend. It should have some kind of markup language (to make basic customisation - lists, bold...) and if possible also the option to upload images. ...

How to open a web page from QlikView?

I am starting to use QlikView. I need to open a web site from QlikView script, for instance something like call ("wwww.mywebsite.com"). Is possible to call a website from QlikView Script? ...

Framework for making a web-application who's content is managed

Is there a system (such as a development framework, Wiki or CMS) that enables you to build rich web applications, but where you can make all the text of the application content-managed? For example, there might be screens that display charts and statistics, and a data entry form, and a form for modifying properties of something. The un...

How to save web audio streaming to file ( c++ / java )

hello all is there any lib or well known method to save audio web streaming ( web radio , mp3 streaming) to file programmatically ? ...