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How to (simply) connect Python to my web site?

I've been playing with Python for a while and wrote a little program to make a database to keep track of some info (its really basic, and hand written). I want to add the ability to create a website from the data that I will then pass to my special little place on the internet. What should I use to build up the website? After dabbling wi...

Community (Site) Recommendation - Connect with friends with similar interests

Any good recommendations on community (site)? Of course, I am particularly interested in IT. I want to know more developers and people in IT field globally. Have tried FB, MSDN and Channel9 but I think there should be something much better. I think something similar to stackOverflow is what I want. :-) So any good one out there? Than...

How to dynamically change a web page's title?

I have a webpage that implements a set of tabs each showing different content. The tab clicks do not refresh the page but hide/unhide contents at the client side. Now there is a requirement to change the page title according to the tab selected on the page ( for SEO reasons ). Is this possible? Can someone suggest a solution to dynamical...

Company seeking my personal projects during non-work at home?

Ok, so I'm building "Web 2.0/3.0" sites to make extra money. I currently run my own personal project sites with some advanced technology in the backend (AI stuff, recommendation system) that I've developed over the years. It's a subscription site for me to make money on the side. Now, my company (they do web application/software technol...

Big Web 2.0 sites written in Python?

Hulu, Twitter, Techcrunch, etc are written in Ruby. Yahoo, Facebook, and tons of big social networks are written in PHP. But what are some big top-name enterprise sites written in Python? I am going to spend my time investing in either Python (w/ Django) or Ruby (w/ Rails) to create a data-intensive web application that has a personali...

website creation - for non web programmers?

I thought I would find decent questions and answers for this, but none really caught my eye... I am a C++ developer and I own a few domains. I'd like to start off with simple web sites for each with a minimum of time and fuss and minimum learning. I have too many projects going and don't have the time to learn how to build websites. ...

Does location.replace() not do a conditional get if last-modified caching is in place?

Here's what I'm seeing: I have a conditional-get caching policy in place (cache-control: private, must-revalidate). It works fine if I'm on the page, then try to hit the browser's refresh button. However, in another part of my site, I use location.replace(url) to go to that page... if I do that, its not makign that check and always ret...

Visual Studio opens upgraded web application as a web site

I recently upgraded a 1.1 web project to a 2.0 web application. After going through the upgrade wizard and performing the "upgrade to web application" operation, everything looked fine. After closing and reopening Visual Studio, however, it insisted on treating the project as a web site, not a web application, and the "upgrade to web a...

Not allowing javascript function call from the address bar

I was working with a online game website. There are some event which call a javascript function and the function have some action with callback. something like this, <input type="button" onclick="changeSomething"/> function changeSomething() { /// some call back, which changes something } now anybody who knows this c...

Why are some websites in beta for a long time?

Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/344932/why-is-stack-overflow-still-in-public-beta Why do websites like Gmail or Stack Overflow say that they are beta? If they are 'in use' by the general public, why do they claim to be in "beta" or "public beta"? ...

Selecting random records for use on a web page

HI Guys, I own a website I have a section called "mobile Section" this section contain many catagories (Nameoftheobject + a picture + little description and a download link) Now the section is considered as an internal section. I want to view random records from that section on the first page (I dont know Like RSS but not Rss) showing ...

How do CMS's show pages at directories or at plain filenames?

If all CMS's (Drupal, MediaWiki) are just a collection of PHP or ASP in the background, then how do they display pages at www.site.com/directory/ or www.site.com/File_name without extensions or anything? Is this some .HTACCESS configuration? Python? Perl? What could do this? How could I do this for my server/websites? (Without using a ...

Scalability and Performance of Web Applications, Approaches?

What various methods and technologies have you used to successfully address scalability and performance concerns of a website? I am an ASP.NET web developer exploring .NET remoting with WCF with SQL clustering and am curious as to what other approaches exist (such as the ‘cloud’). In which cases would you apply various approaches (for ...

Is website content partitioning worth while?

In order to allow for multiple policies regarding content... security, cookies, sessions, etc, I'm considering moving some content from my sites to their own domains and was wondering what kinds of dividends it will pay off (If any). I understand cookies are domain specific and are sent on every request (even for images) so if they gro...

Div with horizontal scrolling only

I have a fixed width DIV containing a table with many columns, and need to allow the user to scroll the table horizontally within the DIV. This needs to work on IE6 and IE7 only (internal client application). The following works in IE7: overflow-x: scroll; Can anyone help with a solution that works in IE6 as well? ...

Visual Studio XSD files with DLLs for Web Projects

I'm trying to create a DLL using a Dataset.XSD file to access my website's VistaDB database. The DLL develops and builds fine but I need to build the DLL once and then change the "path" of the database in the all the Website projects that finally references the dll (different databases and therefor database paths for each website that r...

Financial News API

Any free/paid API to get financial news either world-wide / country specific. ...

What text inside Flash is indexed by Google?

Does the following mean that dynamic TextFields will NOT be indexed? We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to b...

web (non?)streaming audio solutions?

I want to embed multiple audio to my site. I want the file to load but not play until the user hits the button. I also want the ablity to jump to places not yet loaded like youtube does. It would be great if i can play ogg, aac, mp4, etc but i dont expect that would be possible so I wouldnt mind having another version converted by ffmpeg...

What are good APIs or search method for tagging objects into categories and searching them?

i want to tag many user created content and have multiple types of categories (project tags, desc tag, style/inspiration tag etc). I seen horrible search engines where the more words you use the worse your result is and i dont want that with tagging. What are good APIs or search method for tagging objects into categories and searching t...