In this answer to a Meta question, Jeff states that he has fixed the problem where visits created by the "Top Sites" feature in Safari were counted for the Fanatic and Enthusiast badges. My question is: how can this be done? How I programatically tell a "top sites" visit and a regular visit apart? I'm looking for a general solution, a...
I've been doing some web development work in PHP recently which has led me to study up on the language in general. So far I have not needed to use it to interact with a database, but I know it provides a lot of convenient functions for doing so. Although I know basic SQL and have worked with basic manipulation of data in a database, I d...
Hello I have a very simple Java application which downloads a set of foreign exchanges rates from Yahoo! finance and performs some calculations on them. I am currently running this application in Eclipse. I would now like to do two things: 1. Deploy the application on a VPS so that it can run 24 x 7 2. Develop a management console, so th...
What is a (free) technology which requires the least amount of code for creating a website with the following requirements: Sign-up/login Form for adding your personal info. which gets databased Each person can view and edit their own info Admin can view and edit any The form needs to be easily customizable and extensible (by the websi...
Hi I repetitively use document.getElementById a lot on common CSS elements. Would there be a significant performance gain if I created a global array to store all of my document.getElementById element in instead of refetching the element each time? Example, instead of: document.getElementById("desc").setAttribute("href", "#"); docume...
I am struggling to decide if I should be using the MySQL blob field type in an upcoming project I have. My basic requirements are, there will be certain database records that can be viewed and have multiple files uploaded and "attached" to those records. Seeing said records can be limited to certain people on a case by case basis. Any...
I have a webapp that runs perfectly in Apache Tomcat 5.5 and I need to "convert it" so it can be deployed in an Oracle Application Server 10.1.3. Right now I make a WAR file of the aplication, paste it in the "webapps" directory of the Tomcat installation and then start the service (this works with Windows and Linux). Deploying the same...
Is there a built in function of JavaScript to convert a string into a current format? For example var a = '1234'; a.convertToCurrency(); // return $1,234 UPDATE Please note that I want the function to return the currency to include the US comma to group digits. ...
What are the points to bear while designing and coding a web application where the approach is to render components on the client using jQuery/ScriptServices (as data source), similar to an igoogle page? ...
Whether I log into Facebook or Twitter, I'll be bombarded with cookies of the such names as: __utma __utmb __utmc __utmv What are their functions ? Is there a standard that governs how these are used on the serverside ? ...
I want to develop my personal website. Which one should I use, ASP or php? I want the best performance in terms of page loading, rendering of web page, etc. As I'm new to web devlopment would you please guide me? Any tutorial or book to follow? ...
im looking for exciting thesis problems.. im a computer science undergraduate student... preferably web related... i kn0ow you guys have got some great ideas... :D ...
Is %20 in site urls and and file name can create any problem on any server or browser or device etc ? Is it bad for SEO ? ...
i am working on php...!! Is it possible to link HTML page to c++/c at back end. means instead of php script i want to run c/c++ if Yes How?? ...
I'm using Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to implement a complex application on the web. I was wondering, however, how many components can be included into a single page (a.k.a. entry point) before the browser becomes unusably slow? Would I be better to break my application down into multiple smaller web pages? ...
I recently discovered that 2 == [2] in JavaScript. As it turns out, this quirk has a couple of interesting consequences: var a = [0, 1, 2, 3]; a[[2]] === a[2]; // this is true Similarly, the following works: var a = { "abc" : 1 }; a[["abc"]] === a["abc"]; // this is also true Even stranger still, this works as well: [[[[[[[2]]]]]...
When a customer views an order. We show them the carrier and the tracking number. But based on this information is there a way to generate a link directly to the tracking page for that carrier/shipment? Thanks ...
Background: The application I am working on happens to be web-based, but the question applies to any GUI. I need to request three distinct pieces of information from the user four times -- each set is for one of four servers. There is no commonality between the sign-on for each server, or in other words, the four sets of credentials a...
I am after a service like userfly, that is not userfly. Userfly is renders the site badly and means the information is unreliable. ...
I am using ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005. I want my user to select a date and time and then save those values into the database. In VS I can use the Calendar control to get the date, but what is a good one for handeling the date the user select plus the time what ever it might be that the user must also select from a control. Thanks ...