web

How to make a modal confirmation dialog before submitting a form?

Hi all, I am a beginner in web/javascript programming and wonder if anyone can give me a kick start simple example of a modal confirm dialog just before a form with multiple submit buttons being submitted using a pre-defined button? I stumbled upon jQuery and SimpleModal and wonder if it would fit my ASP MVC project. I ended up in the f...

Web Development Version Control - Multiple Versions

I'd like to hear how other web developers manage their websites over the life of the project. For example I have several sites I've been developing for several years where a "version" could be a completely separate code base. So version 1.0 might be straight html and version 2.0 might be a symfony app. There is also the issue of tho...

Use Jquery to navigate away from page

I will only have a relative link available to me but i want to use Jquery to navigate to this rel link. I only see .ajax functionality in jquery. how can i do this using jquery or just pure DHTML/javascript? ...

Project Planning? Diagrams and Such.... Best tool?

Hey there, I started a personal Java WEB project and I'm trying to generate some documentation before I start off. I'm looking for some cool, flexible and free Diagram tool. Cool -> Shapes are colorful and could be used to be presented directly to a client. (Those line based- black/white are awful) Flexible -> I'm looking for somethi...

Simulate/Generate a SocketTimeoutException in a servlet

Hi all, I'm working a web project that use: - Java - Jetty - Fitnesse tool - etc.. I have a difficulty to simulate/generate a SocketTimeoutException, more info below: The use-case-simplified: I wrote a API that make calls to a host(WebServer). In the source-code if I receive a RemoteException and is a SocketTimeoutException, I nee...

test for directory scanning/reading vulnerabilities on website

Lets just say I want to test the security of a server (http://www.testserver.com) for directory scanning/reading vulnerabilities. I would normally try to search for a file say /etc/passwd (or something more interesting:)) by doing something like http://www.testserver.com/../../../../etc/passwd and see if it throws up anything. Now thi...

Flash : Impossible to see the actionscript code after a search

Hello everyone I have a problem with a fla. I search for a portion of action script code and when i click on the line of the result, i see an empty code window ! Have you ever had a similar problem ? I use flash cs3 but i don't know the version used to develop this fla. Is it possible to discover the version used ? Thanks by advance ...

Something similar to drupal CCK

Are there any CMS systems that offer the functionality of Drupal's CCK either as a module or built in? ...

Knowing how wide a text line will be in HTML for word wrap and other applications

Do you know a good cross-browser way of knowing how wide will be a text line so you can break it exactly to fit a fixed width? Suppose you want to break a long text like so it doesn't overflow a fixed width container, but you want the line to break the closest to the border possible, so guessing where to insert s isn't a clean solution....

Explaining "Web Application Developer" vs. "Web Site Designer" to prospective clients

How do I go about explaining that I am a "Web Application Developer" and not a "Web Site Designer" to prospective clients - without talking myself out of the project?! Often I am approached to "design a web site" for someone where it turns out to be more of a "brochureware" presentation site and less of a real web application. While I...

Which is the best web hosting service supporting PHP 5.2.x and MySQL 5.1?

I am developing my website using PHP 5.2.9 and MySQL 5.1. Which is the most reasonable web hosting service with high uptime? ...

How to profile session memory usage in Java/Seam web application?

Is there any way/tool to profile per-session memory usage in a Java web application? More specifically I'm using Seam and I have a few objects which are specific for the user or for the user's current session so they're set to be stored in the user's session. Some time ago my application would run out of memory when hitting a certain n...

API Model for Server Push Technologies (COMET)

Hello, I'm whiling to add a support of Server Side events to CppCMS. I understand the technical part of what to do on the level of communication: Client sends long polling XmlHTTPRequest, and waits for respond, server accepts the connection and does not respond until server side event occurs and sends the response to the client. The cli...

jQuery - Fading animation on hover

Hi! I have a little jQuery animation which fades in a link when hovering an : $(function() { $('.delete').hide(); $('#photos img').hover(function() { $(this).parents('li').children('.delete').fadeIn('fast'); }, function() { $(this).parents('li').children('.delete').fadeOut('fast'); }); }); But if I quickly mouse my mo...

progress bar while waiting for server

hi Some operations are time costly and it takes long time while waiting them to finish. Sometimes timeout occurs. I want to use a real time progress bar, so I want to show the status to the user and also I want to prevent timeout. Which technologies must I use? JS, Ajax, multithread or both? and how can I iplement this? Please advice. ...

How to deploy web service through oracle enterprise manager

Hello all, I have been developing simple web services and clients using JBoss but now I need to deploy a web service in Oracle Enterprise Manager. I tried deploying a test web service but an axis error shows when I try to access it, saying the axis version number is wrong. I have also noticed that my web service doesn't show under "We...

Can I develop ASMX web services in Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition?

I need to know if I can develop ASMX web services using VS 2008 Standard Edition, or if I need Professional Edition? I can't find this anywhere. Thanks. ...

Looking for a web based hierarchical menu editor

I'm looking for a web based menu editor that has the following functionality: implemented in JavaScript, no postbacks to server side code on each edit create menu entries edit menu entries delete menu entries reorganize menu entries create sub-menu entries (a hierarchy) no hard-connected back-end code possibility to load the current me...

Standalone web application with .Net

Is there a way to make a standalone web application that runs in the tray or something like that using .Net and opens a port with a web server (embedded in the application) using either WebForms or MVC? ...

Forming Communication Between Server and an iPhone application.

hello all, Is there any tutorial or blog or some documents which helps in learning how to communicate server from my iPhone application. I just want to do a simple thing. Which is a page update. Like I have a Label which needs to update to one particular name stored in my database and this database resides on a server. So how to do t...