I have to start delving in the details of a PCI bus device driver. What resource (book, website, etc...) would you recommend someone look at to learn more about the PCI bus and how to program it? EDIT: The platform would be both x86 and PowerPC ...
I recently moved my website to a shared hosting solution at asmallorange.com, but I had to set my domain to use their provided nameservers in order for the site to properly resolve. I was determined to keep control of the domain's DNS but I could find no way to make my top level domain resolve to the shared location which was in the for...
Is it worth it to develop WAP webpage for cellular since now cellular have browser that is really better than before? I have a PHP website and I would like to increase the use of portable device to use it. Is it worth it to implement. ...
I want to keep multiple web site projects in one solution and I want to publish them all together in one folder. What are the steps to do that? Can I publish the whole solution? I am guessing the solution is only a container that is holding different web site projects. I want to publish all these small web site projects into one place an...
What is a good command line tool to create screenshots of websites on Linux? I need to automatically generate screenshots of websites without human interaction. The only tool that I found was khtml2png, but I wonder if there are others that aren't based on khtml (i.e. have good JavaScript support, ...). ...
As a consultant, you are sometimes thrown in difficult situations. How is it possible to build a website with a homemade framework which has no documentation? ...
We have developed a website that uses MVC, C#, and jQuery. In one of my controller classes we are validating inputs from the user and if it fails we throw an exception that the Ajax error parameter(aka option) handles. (We use Block UI to display the error message. BlockUI is a jQuery plugIn that blocks the screen and displays a message...
It's surprising how difficult it is to find a simple, concise answer to this question: I have a file, foo.zip, on my website What can I do to find out how many people have accessed this file? I could use Tomcat calls if necessary Update: If you suggest writing a script, can you point me to a decent one? ...
We are build a website using MVC pattern. So far all the pages we built used models which had to operate on Reference data(which is cached when the website loads for the first time). But now we have reached that stage of the flow where we have to deal with Transactional data (which is specific to that flow). Till now we created model cla...
I am wondering how everybody plans their web apps. Do you write out a list of functions and tick them off when done? Do you have stacks of paper with Use Cases all over them? What is the sweet spot between not planning at all and doing so much planning that your deadline has passed before you have even started? EDIT: Most of the web ap...
I have a lot of classes in the App_Code directory could this be a problem? Would it build faster if it was in a separate library? Any other tips? ...
What do you consider to be the best examples of website navigation and why? I'm trying to design a secondary navigation menu and I need a little inspiration, but I'm also interested just in general about learning best practices for navigation and information display. What are some of the more unique solutions you've seen? Links and varie...
I'm having some trouble getting my Coldfusion server classpath to recognize my custom java jars. The classpath is not reading my jvm.config file correctly (I assume out of my JRun server which is where the CF instance is running out of, it's a production server with multiple sites attached). I have been banging my head against the wall...
I plan to develop website for exchange ideas for website, application, startups… Main purpose of this website is exchange ideas for new project between programmers. Please tell me if exist site like that, and what you think about this idea? ...
I've seen a number of references to gzipping a javascript to save download time. But I also see a number of warnings that certain browsers do not support this. I have two different methods at my disposal: use mod_deflate to make Apache compress JS/CSS files in a given directory through htaccess use ob_start('gzhandler') to compress a...
I am getting ready to completely overhaul my web server. I use it for both development and to present product to clients. It also hosts my company website. I will be loading MS Server 2008 and MS SQL 2008. I want it to have the latest .NET Framework as well as the latest MVC templates. I want it to use SubSonic. I also want to start usi...
I want to offer credit card payment on my website and was wondering whats the best (or prefered) way to do so? I know I could use Google checkout, paypal, etc. but this is not what i am looking for. I am looking for a simple basic CC payment which supports all the different credit cards only. ...
How do you track outbound links for your web sites, since the request is logged on the destination server, not yours? What method works best for an HTML site, a PHP or ASP.NET site, a template site, or a framework-based site? ...
I'm programming (in Python) a website which will have users. These users will have a number of settings, such as their choice of colour scheme, etc. I'm happy to store these as plain text files, and security is not an issue. The way I currently see it is: there's a dictionary, where all the keys are users and the values are dictionaries...
I am actually using framework 1.1. I my Web application i am actually adding a reference to a webservice. I am doing this using the Visual studio. When i add a web reference the below list of files get generated. reference.map reference.vb reference.disco reference.wsdl. all these files have the url pointing to the webservice. Even...