How to view web pages at different resolutions.
I am developing a web site and need to see how it will look at different resolutions. The catch is that it must work on our Intranet. Is there a free solution? ...
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Joomla Blog/Wordpress Integration
I'm looking for a wordpress-like blog interface to put inside a Joomla hosted site. The admin interface of Joomla is quirky enough and hard enough to use that daily updates are infeasible. What I am looking for is an easy-to-use posting interface that supports multiple users with different accounts/names, a tagging scheme, and easy f...
What is the best way to create a web page thumbnail?
Is there some reasonably cross platform way to create a thumbnail image given a URL? I know there are thumbnail web services that will do this, but I want a piece of software or library that will do this locally. I guess in Linux I could always spawn a browser window using a headless X server, but what about Windows or OS X? ...
How to find broken links on a website
What techniques or tools are recommended for finding broken links on a website? I have access to the logfiles, so could conceivably parse these looking for 404 errors, but would like something automated which will follow (or attempt to follow) all links on a site. ...
ASP.NET - Common Gotchas
When I am working with ASP.NET, I find that there are always unexpected things I run into that take forever to debug. I figure that having a consolidated list of these would be great for those "weird error" circumstances, plus to expand our knowledge of oddness in the platform. So: answer with one of your "Gotcha"s! I'll start: Under A...
How do I create a link to a footnote in HTML?
For example: This is main body of my content. I have a footnote link for this line [1]. Then, I have some more content. Some of it is interesting and it has some footnotes as well [2]. [1] Here is my first footnote. [2] Another footnote. So, if I click on the "[1]" link it directs the web page to the first footnote ...
best library to do web-scraping
I would like to get data from from different webpages such as addresses of restaurants or dates of different events for a given location and so on. What is the best library I can use for extracting this data from a given set of sites? ...
How do you update a live, busy web site in the politest way possible?
When you roll out changes to a live web site, how do you go about checking that the live system is working correctly? Which tools do you use? Who does it? Do you block access to the site for the testing period? What amount of downtime is acceptable? ...
Send file using POST from a Python script
Is there a way to send a file using POST from a Python script? ...
Good ways to test a unit that communicates via HTTP
Often, I find myself wanting to write a unit test for a portion of code that accesses HTTP resources as part of its normal function. Have you found any good ways to write these kinds of tests? ...
Reading Body on chunked transfer encoded http requests in ASP.NET
A J2ME client is sending HTTP POST requests with chunked transfer encoding. When ASP.NET (in both IIS6 and WebDev.exe.server) tries to read the request it sets the Content-Length to 0. I guess this is ok because the Content-length is unknown when the request is loaded. However, when I read the Request.InputStream to the end, it returns...
What Safari-specific pure CSS hacks are out there?
I'm wondering if there's any way to write CSS specifically for Safari using only CSS. I know there has to be something out there, but I haven't found it yet. ...
Can I implement a web user authentication system in python without POST?
My university doesn't support the POST cgi method (I know, it's crazy), and I was hoping to be able to have a system where a user can have a username and password and log in securely. Is this even possible? If it's not, how would you do it with POST? Just out of curiosity. Cheers! ...
Integration with Siebel On-Premise CRM?
Has anyone ever integrated an external web application with Siebel On-Premise CRM? Note that I'm not talking about Siebel On-Demand SaaS, but their behind-the-firewall product. Specifically, I'm trying to achieve two-way synchronization of CRM objects (contacts, accounts, sales opportunities) between my web application and a customer'...
Accessing hidden embedded quicktime audio
I'm trying to write a simple audio player for a website, and am using the EMBED... tag to embed the audio and setting HIDDEN="true" and using various javascript commands to control the audio playback. It works fine for realplayer and mplayer but the quicktime plugin doesn't respond to javascript if the hidden bit is set - is there any wo...
Interactive world map - suggestions?
Hi. I'm looking to create a "Countries You've Visited" map - just like the ones you've probably seen on Facebook, TravelAdvisor and whatnot. I've tried different flash kits, but they're not quite as advanced as I'd like them to be. The main problem I've encountered with all the different kits is changing the background color on a count...
Where is the best place to get Drupal & Sugar CRM developers?
Where can I go to get a good Drupal + SugerCRN developer? ...
The best way to make a new site known?
You have a cool new idea on a revolutionary new internet site (e.g. one that makes ebay look obsolete or something that might make you surpass google). However how would you start to make it known in the net as the best idea is worthless as long as nobody knows it and uses it. What's your recommendation? Online Ads? Spaming blogs? But i...
What is the best way to remotely reset the server cache in a web farm?
Each of our production web servers maintains its own cache for separate web sites (ASP.NET Web Applications). Currently to clear a cache we log into the server and "touch" the web.config file. Does anyone have an example of a safe/secure way to remotely reset the cache for a specific web application? Ideally we'd be able to say "clea...
What is the best way to handle URL mappings between an RIA version and plain old HTML version of a site?
So if you have a RIA version (Silverlight or Flash) and a standard HTML version (or AJAX even), should you have the same URL for both, or is it ok to have a different one for the RIA app and just redirect accordingly? So, for instance, if you have a site (http://example.com), is it ok to have the about page URL for the RIA app be http:/...