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Simple "search" and "answer" application

Im looking to build an application that is a simple search and answer function. Essentially, the design will be similar to the home page of google, except when you hit search, it will only return one result, the "answer" Up to this point, almost all of my work has been design + marketing for the web. I want to get into bigger projects,...

Common mistakes in web development

what are the common mistakes developers/architechs do when developing a portal/web application... what should we avoid or take care of when we are developing a web application. ...

2D web-game: on what?

I want make 2d fighting game. Without very fast moving and very cool effects. I can do it with jquery, but i think this be a slow. Or not ? Q: Is there an alternative for flash? PS: sorry for my ugly english ...

Is there a better way to serve the results of an expensive, blocking python process over HTTP?

We have a web service which serves small, arbitrary segments of a fixed inventory of larger MP3 files. The MP3 files are generated on-the-fly by a python application. The model is, make a GET request to a URL specifying which segments you want, get an audio/mpeg stream in response. This is an expensive process. We're using Nginx as th...

How does yui improve performance?

Hi Guys, Just curious to know if yui improves performance? As all the css and javascript files are on the YAHOO servers and only a part of it is loaded when needed. so does it help in improving performance? Thanks ...

What is the best web development freelance book available?

I am looking for a book that covers how to do freelance as a web developer. I know there are many general freelance books out there, but I am looking for a freelance book that is somewhat focused on freelancing as a web developer. Some of things I am looking for in the book are: Examples of Contracts and Terms & Conditions related to...

How would a stateful HTTP protocol be implemented?

How exactly would we go about adding state to http without the hackish workarounds we currently use involving query strings, hidden fields, cookies and session state? ...

Is there a Java-applet implementation of HTML5 WebSockets?

Is there a Java-applet implementation of HTML5 WebSockets? I'd like to use WebSockets for a new project, and provide a backward compatible implementation of WebSockets (for all current non-dev browsers) using Java (or maybe Flash). I only want to write and maintain WebSockets on the server-side. I only want to have to deal with the We...

Sharepoint 2007 weather web part

Hi, What is the best way to implement a weather web part for 2007 sharepoint. I want the web part to automatically select the correct location based on the users profile settings or maybe IP range. Or should I make the webparts connectable to another webpart where the user enters the location? I would appreciate guidance on how to do ...

C# response object contains null when calling Java Web Service

I've been sent the following wsdl. I generated the C# proxy using wsdl.exe and also created my c# web page. Using Fiddler I have looked at the SOAP response and it contains data. Any guidance on what modification is needed in order to get the C# program to accept the SOAP response. Please excuse the formatting of the wsdl I was uncer...

Running a webservice

I have a web service created in .NET, now I want to test it but I am having problems. I setup everything correctly on Windows Vista. IIS. I keep getting "Not Found" every time I try to access it. http://localhost/myservice/service.aspx' .NET framework has been installed too. What can I do? ...

mvc for multi user web application

Hi guys, I am working on a web application using JSF/Facelets/Hibernate and mySQL.In software requirements, the system should support 5 category of users, each category has access to its own tasks and user interface accessed from a login. If I split my application in separate modules, in a such a way that each category has its own vie...

HTML5 Video tag with no source?

Is there any defined behaviour if I have an HTML5 VIDEO tag but include neither a SRC attribute nor SOURCE tags inside the element? Would this still be valid HTML, and if so, what should the (HTML5 capable) browser do - ignore the element or display it's contents? ...

JS: How to make document.getElementById cross-browser?

Hi, document.getElementById doesn't seem to work across all browsers (I mean some old ones) and I am sure there are developers who are not aware of this. What solutions would you suggest to make it cross-browser? Thanks ...

c# Encoding conversion?

Hi, I have a string which looks like: À l'intérieur But it needs to be: À l'intérieur I tried changing the conversion. I know it's read as ASCII encoding. So I tried using the code: ASCIIEncoding ASCII = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding(); Byte[] BytesMessage = ASCII.GetBytes(Title); Title = Encodi...

Post to web page text box

Ive searched all of google and i cant seem to find the method for doing this when it seems so simple! All i have is a text box on a webpage, and given the text box id i want to write a value in it and press a button. So far i have: WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://ps766677/TestWebApplication/Default.aspx"); WebP...

Remote Deskto WEB CONNECTION possible on Windows 2000 Server?

My office has a virtual Windows 2000 Server hosted by GoDaddy. They want to be able to use a Remote Desktop WEB CONNECTION in order to access specific software. Essentially, they want to go to www.whateverdomain.com and login, then see the desktop. I can successfully connect via RDC- but have NO CLUE how to setup the RDC WEB CONNECTION. ...

toggle button pressed color

hi, i am using toggle buttons in my application, i would like to set the backgound-color when the button is pressed. how can i know what is the proper attribute? and in general is there any place that i can know which CSS attribute has which effect on the HTML element? thanks ...

How do online rich text editors work?

I was wondering how online rich text editors maintain the formatting when you paste text from a webpage or document. A standard textarea box only takes text while these WYSIWYG editors seem to use a DIV. How does it work? ...

Sending a data to a Web server

Hi, I have already finished my iphone app, but I would to add some monitoring to it on my Web site. What I want is get a location of the device (state, country) that using my app and then after I got the location I want to send it to a Web Server. Then in my site I will create a report of how many user's of my app. I haven't work on W...