administration

Whats the easiest way to create an Admin Panel for dynamic websites?

I've heard about web frameworks like Rails, Django, CakePHP and others, that help programmers to quickly create dynamic websites which are basically a web GUI to interact with a database. I was wondering if there are ways to "generate" these Admin Panel GUIs pretty much automatically, something like a Microsoft Access for the web? Where...

php script that runs on the server without a client request

I am working on a site that require a php script running on a server without any request, it is a bot script that keeps (not full time but at least once a day) checking client accounts and send alert messages to clients when something happens. any ideas are appreciated. ...

Is there a way to automatically push svn configuration settins from the server to the clients?

Is there a way to force the client to update its local svn configuration using a hook? I have lin and win clients and I'd like to push down a standard set of ignores and auto props. Today, I provide a config files and ask the users to install them (.reg file for win and conf file for linux). I'd like to flush them down to the clients ...

Using schtasks to create a task with multiple schedules

Is there some way to use schtasks to create a task with multiple schedules ? ...

Creating Web Application in SharePoint with multiple Web front ends

How do you go about creating a web application in a Sharepoint server farm that has multiple Web front ends(identical ones for load balancing), especially if you creating it from command line? When you create it on one web server does it get automatically copied to other servers as well? Or do you have to extend the app to other servers?...

ASP.Net Web Site Administration Tool Link

I'd like to include the ASP.net Web Admin tool in a web site when a user logs in as an local manager of the web site, this will be on the LAN and not public. I can obtain the link in Visual Studio ie http://localhost:54397/asp.netwebadminfiles/default.aspx?applicationPhysicalPath=D:\DATA\Projects\WebIV\WebSite\&applicationUrl=/WebS...

How to structure groups within a website? (admin, admin powers, user identity)

I am going to be making a small user system but I have questions. If I were to make a registration table (mysql), what is wrong with just storing the password and username into the database without encryption? I am trying to think of how to build the admin portion. Should I just check a column in the database to see if user is admin or...

How to prevent people from editing other's workspace options in Perforce ?

Hi, I am new to Perforce. There seems to be a a misconfiguration in our current Server, as anybody can change anyone else's workspace options. Does anyone know how to quickly fix that problem ? Thanks, Thomas ...

How to force a confirmation step before certain perforce command ?

Hi, I am new to Perforce. Is it possible in P4 to have a confirmation step before using some deletion command. E.g.: deleting a workspace has no confirmation step ( P4 client -d workspace_name ) deleting label has no confirmation step ( P4 label -d label_name) Which I found dangerous. Thanks, Thomas ...

How do you quickly find/delete all empty changelists in Perforce ?

Hi, I was wondering what could be the point in trying to delete committed changelists, because a committed changelist is not supposed to be empty. But then I am playing with the tutorial depot, and using the obliterate command on a whole branch, I can see there are situation where you can end up with empty committed changelists (that n...

What is a branch specification in Perforce ?

Hi, it seems to me that keeping the "branch" object in Perforce may not be entirely necessary after an integration has been submitted. I.e. the "real" branch, is actually a folder path, and even if you delete the branch object that was created to perform the integ, the folder path is still valid, and all the files in this path are stil...

Bulk User Creation in Rails - good use of delayed_job?

In the administration panel for my rails application I want to give the administrator the ability to create several users at one time (in the hundreds range). Would this be a good use for delayed_job? ...

Is there a subversion appliance / toolset for the enterprise

I am looking for an enterprise subversion setup, that will fit the following requirements: I need at least 2 instances of the repository server for high availability reasons Management of multiple repositories The 2 repository servers need to be synchronized. Easy administration and configuration User & authorization management with L...

Frameworks for building so-called CRUD Admin UIs (over SQL tables)

What frameworks are targeted specifically at building so-called "CRUD Admin UIs" (basically, a set of screens for editing related SQL tables), whether Web Apps or Thick Clients. The ones I know of: ASP.NET DynamicData Django Admin (from Nick's answer below) General purpose frameworks like Ruby-on-Rails and ASP.NET MVC don't count. ...

Query configuring IE to use a proxy server

If i configure internet explorer to use a proxy server, Does the website which i surf, will be hidden from the system administrator of my lan? Will my ip will hidden to the website administrators of the browsing website ? ...

Tips for creating an admin login for a client's website

Hello, I'm creating a website for a real estate firm. Looking great, but the last component is to create an admin login for my client so he can login and add/remove real estate properties he has to sell. I plan to store his entries in a database file. The entries will be displayed in a web control on a public page which will be bound to...

Adding a "Big Icon" to the Joomla admin dashboard

I've done this befor but with all my memory, search efforts and logic failing I can't figure out how to add a new "Big Icon" link on the main dashboard of the Joomla administration. What file am i looking to change? I'm sitting on a fresh install of 1.5.15 ...

c#: How can you log into and administer a Linux server programmatically using C# on a windows client?

Can anyone show me c# code that successfully logs into a Linux server by inputting username and password? ...

Error while shutting down 'Admin Server' from weblogic enterprise management console

I am using Weblogic Server em console to restart a webserver, URL looks like this: http://localhost:7001/em/ AdminServer is named 'AdminServer', I wish to restart this server instance, I click on server in EM console then user menu option like this: (Weblogic server>Control>Shut Down...) I get this error: 'No Machine associated with ...

windows - allowing remote desktop machine to access local files

Hi, currently i have two machines A and B... both are running WinXP. I am on machine A and using mstsc to connect to machine B. Now, how can i see from machine B the cdrom, usb, disk drives of machine A? even more if connect any usb to machine A can it be automatically detected by machine B also? ...