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Building a ASP.NET solution from command-line?

How can I build an ASP.NET web application from the command line? ...

Django cluster deployment

I have five nodes behind a load balancer and I'm trying to determine the optimal configuration for a Django based site. Each node has access to Postgres, mod_wsgi, Apache, Lighttpd, memcached, pgpool2 (for database replication) and glusterfs(for media file replication) and is running Ubuntu 8.04LTS. So far, the setup is four nodes runn...

Using Processing on a server to create images behind the scenes

The way I see most people use Processing is for drawing an image directly onto a screen or webpage on the client side. How would one use Processing to create an image without a visual canvas, then save this image to a file? Here are the specific steps I'm interested in: Someone visits a webpage, which causes the Processing program to...

php connecting to MediaWiki API and retrieve data

Hi guys, I noticed there was a question somewhat similar to mine, only with c#:link text. Let me explain: I'm very new to the whole web-services implementation and so i'm experiencing some difficulty understanding (especially due to the vague mediawiki api manual). I want to retrieve the entire page as a string in PHP (xml file) and the...

Are mailto links even relevant in an age of increased webmail?

As the question states: Mailto is useful enough for people who use a desktop email client. That number is, I'm thinking, going down all the time outside of corporate intranets. Thus making mailto links an annoyance for these people, as they have to close whatever the default mail client is on their system and copy-paste the link. Now, I...

XDocument.Load C# question - how to call a web service

Suppose I have an asmx web service at the following address: http://localhost/BudgetWeb/Service.asmx This web service has a web method with the following signature: string GetValue(string key) This GetValue method returns a string like this: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><value>250.00</value> What if I wanted to do th...

blurring a web page background

i have seen many websites like msn.com or sulekha.com(although sulekha.com is not in silverlight) which is said to be in silverlight. and its home page gives blurr effect. But when we right click on the page it does show html. so can any body help me on this? i don't want to do anything in ??javascript?? ...

are there any good web third party tools to do excel like pivot tables

i am using asp.net mvc so the solution can be either server side or client side (jquery, etc). i can't seem to find any good tools that can mimic excel pivot tables (allow user to get the pivot table experience that they get with excel pivot tables) on the web with good performance. ...

How to set up a simple web server(Windowws XP Pro)

As a heads up, I have some experience programming on Windows and other devices, but I have almost zero experience doing web anything, so I'm sure this is simple/easy to find online and I just don't know what I'm doing. I have a computer on my home network that is connected to the internet(I can VNC into it from online if that helps) and...

Print service on java web application

Hi, I have an Enterprise Java web application that all of the business is migrated from client-server application. So I need to adapt all requirement including printing on every client (Using Dot Matrix / Plain text). Printing requirement for client on separated client is they must get the report right away after the process is finished...

New Window Icon (For web accessibility)

Is there a default, standard, recommended or well known icon to denote that a link will open a new browser window? This is for web accessiblity reasons. Or is it basically a free for all? I realise that those that will get the most use out of them (using screen readers) will not even care what the image looks like, and be more interes...

Orchestration tool for modeling web request processing

Hello. BizTalk has an orchestration tool for the purpose of defining business processes. I have always wondered that we can likewise model even simpler things. For example, web request processing can be modeled as a process because it has a pattern and various business objects (or say services) can participate. I am curious to know about...

How to combine multiple images fast for page views counter

How can I combine multiple images, such as base image with logo and number of digits images to display graphical counter with pageviews count, updated dynamically? It should be very fast, with thousands of renders per second. User should see counter image without Javascript and with single img tag. I prefer to implement that counter wi...

How to have 2 divs next to each other and have one dynamically resize without dropping down.

Hi Guys, Im tryin to get two divs on a page next to each other. The one on the left has to be 100px wide and the one on the right has to take up the remainder of the page, and I want the tect in that div to wrap in it. I have tried <div class="video"> <div class="left"> left stuff </div> <div class="right" >right s...

Automatize Publish of Application Web (VS2008)

Hi all, I have a solution sln and several projects (vbproj, csproj). I have web project, and I need automatize Publish (like menu option in VS2008). Can I replicate VS2008 "Publish Web Site" from command line ?? any help about it, please ? Thanks in advanced. Greetings. ...

Is it possible to upload a whole folder instead of multiple files using Javascript?

Is it possible to upload a whole folder instead of multiple files using Javascript? If so, what is the approach. If there is no straighforward approach, is there any workaround to achieve the same? I have always been curious about this topic. Any insights will help. ...

How to play a sound in a JSF web app?

Is it possible to play a sound (.wav or .mp3) in a client's browser using a JSF web app? I have tried using javax.sound.sampled.SourceDataLine and it worked on Windows, but when I deploy the .war on a Linux host I get this exception: "javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException: Audio Device Unavailable" ...

XML-RPC object mapping

Recently I was working on web services proxy. I got 2 web services proxy. UI will call Proxy A to let say create a record. then what Proxy A will do is to call Proxy B to do the actual task which create the record (For some reason must go through Proxy A) now the problem is When UI call Proxy A, Proxy A will pass the objectA to Proxy B c...

Silverlight OOTB Support for 'Save File' browser dialog.

Hi All, I am in the design stage of an application that must be both a standalone app & a web application (To save the costs of building 2 near identical applications twice). Basically I have opted to go for a silverlight OOTB application that will be installed on the standalone machines and they will write to a collection of files in t...

Controlling initial shift status (and layout?) of iPhone keyboard from web form

I would like to be able to control the initial shift state of the iPhone keyboard from a Javascript prompt (updates added for web forms). It seems to mostly default to an initial capital but I feel sure I've typed into/seen prompts that are initially lower-case. I also feel sure that I've seen custom layouts used from the web. Googling ...