I've read this thread for WCF has inbuilt Custom Fault codes and stuff. But what is the best practice for ASP.Net web services. Do I throw exceptions and let the client handle the exception or send Error code (success, failure etc) that the client would rely upon to do it's processing. Update: Just to discuss further in case of SOAP, l...
Microsoft WPF? Adobe AIR/Flex? Adobe Flash? Curl programming language? How does AJAX fit in? Given a server written in C++ .NET. ...
I have settled a web synchronization between SQLSERVER 2005 as publisher and SQLEXPRESS as suscriber. Web synchro has to be launched manually through IE interface (menu tools/synchronize) and to be selected among available synchronizations. Everything is working fine except that I did not find a way to automate the synchro, which I stil...
What it a good starting point for learning javascript? I'm a well versed C and Java programmer and I have some decent experience in C++, so I'm looking for a few suggestions: What is some good reference material? Is there a particular IDE/editor that is worth looking at? I use vim for C/C++ development and I used IntelliJ Idea for Ja...
Generally, what's the best way to tackle a layout bug in IE6? What are the most common bugs or problems that one should look for when trying to figure out why your page suddenly looks like a monkey coded it? ...
What is a good way to render data produced by a Java process in the browser? I've made extensive use of JSP and the various associated frameworks (JSTL, Struts, Tapestry, etc), as well as more comprehensive frameworks not related to JSP (GWT, OpenLaszlo). None of the solutions have ever been entirely satisfactory - in most cases the fr...
What are come good (or at least clever) ways of running multiple sites from a single, common Python web framework (ie: Pylons, TurboGears, etc)? I know you can do redirection based on the domain or path to rewrite the URI to point at a site-specific location and I've also seen some brutish "if site == 'site1' / elseif / elseif / etc" th...
I have a list with 2 text fields, and a choice field. How do I use the Lists.asmx web service to insert a new item? I can make a web reference to the lists.asmx service, so you can assume that this is known. I would like a complete example including code and the XML for the CAML query. Ideally the sample would use C#. ...
Would it not make sense to support a set of languages (Java, Python, Ruby, etc.) by way of a standardized virtual machine hosted in the browser rather than requiring the use of a specialized language -- really, a specialized paradigm -- for client scripting only? I understand the pragmatic issue that JavaScript is simply what we have to...
If the owner of a web site wants to track who their users are as much as possible, what things can they capture (and how). You might want to know about this in order to capture information on a site you create or, as a user, to prevent a site from capturing data on you. Here is a starting list, but I'm sure I have missed some important ...
I am searching for a host for a new commercial website. Among other things, I'd like to know what the various OS - Webserver combinations have in terms of vulnerabilities. What are the vulnerabilities of Windows 2003 + Apache? ...
I am searching for a host for a new commercial website. Among other things, I'd like to know what the various OS - Webserver combinations have in terms of vulnerabilities. What are the vulnerabilities of Redhat + Apache? ...
What are the best places for freelancers or small companies to get code reviewed for PHP and JavaScript? Forums are an option, but are there any sites dedicated specifically to code reviews? Edit: Just for clarification, I'm looking more for a website to get the code critiqued by others than a tool that helps perform internal code revi...
For various reasons, such as cookies, SEO, and to keep things simple, I would like to make apache automatically redirect any requests for http://www.foobar.com/anything to http://foobar.com/anything. The best I could come up with is a mod_rewrite-based monstrosity, is there some easy simple way to tell it "Redirect all requests for domai...
Keep in mind that I'm not looking for a list of current browsers to support, I'm looking for logical ways to make that list, backed by some kind of hard statistics. Since it's been a while since my last web job, I decided to do this latest site up from scratch. Now I have to decide again what to support in terms of browsers. Certainly ...
I've been looking at ways people test their apps in order decide where to do caching or apply some extra engineering effort, and so far httperf and a simple sesslog have been quite helpful. What tools and tricks did you apply on your projects? ...
For reasons I won't go into, I wish to ban an entire company from accessing my web site. Checking the remote hostname in php using gethostbyaddr() works, but this slows down the page load too much. Large organizations (eg. hp.com or microsoft.com) often have blocks of IP addresses. Is there anyway I get the full list, or am I stuck with ...
On my current project, we've been using Struts 1 for the last few years, and ... ahem ... Struts is showing its age. We're slowly migrating our front-end code to an Ajax client that consumes XML from the servers. I'm wondering if any of you have migrated a legacy Struts application to a different framework, and what challenges you faced ...
i.e., a web browser client would be written in C++ !!! ...
Attended an interesting demo on REST today, however, I couldn't think of a single reason (nor was one presented) why REST is in anyway better or simpler to use and implement than a Web Services stack. What are some of the reasons Why anyone in the "real world" use REST instead of the Web Services? ...