offline-mode

Best means to store data locally when offline

I am in the midst of writing a small program (more to experiment with vs 2010 than anything else) Despite being an experiment it has some practical use for our local athletics club. My thought was to access the DB (currently online) to download the current members and store locally on a laptop (this is a MS sql table, used to power th...

Memcached - how to deal with adding/deploying servers

Hi everybody, How do you handle replacing/adding/removing memcached nodes in your production applications? I will have a number of applications that are cloned and customized due to each customers need running on one and same webserver, so i'll guess that there will be a day when some of the nodes will be changed. Here's how memcached ...

Caching pictures from Picasa

Hello all, I'm creating an offline-capable IPhone app for showing pictures on picasa. It was pretty simple to use JQTouch and Google Data API (via JSONP), so I was able to show the albums and thumbnails in 3 hours, however I want that data to be cached, and for that I'm going to use the HTML 5 Application Cache (via xxx.manifest file). ...

Need suggestions , making function to "put site offline" .

I am upto making a function for mine website's administrator to put it offline. But site must be some way accessible for administrators or mods. What way i should do it ? ...

Running Selenium RC tests in firefox in offline mode

Is there a way to run Selenium test in offline mode? If I set the offline mode in the firefox profile, selenium is stuck at selenium.start(). I'm using the python client driver. The code is as below sel = selenium('localhost', 4444, '*firefox', 'file:///home/user/selenium/selenium-python/client-driver-1.0.1/inputs/input.html') sel.st...

Will HTML5 offline mode be supported in Internet Explorer 9?

I understand HTML5 off-line mode is not supported in Internet Explorer 8. Do we know if it will be in IE9? ...

Implement taking a website offline?

Don't need to do this right now but thinking about the future... What would be your method to take a website "offline" for a little bit through a custom coded cms? Meaning give the capability for an admin to login into an admin panel, type a message into a box, and submit the form. That message would then display rather than any other p...

Offline dataentry options

Are there any options available to do offline surveys and questionnaires. Something in the line similar to Adobe Lifecycle that allows coded pdf files. Its costly and there are about 10-15 templates which will also add up to the license cost. MSWord and MS-Excel are options but there could be users that do not have these installed or us...