web-development

what are the biggest hurdles to overcome from being a desktop programmer to a web programmer?

I've been an java programmer forever. Now I want to go web. What mental leaps should I be expecting? ...

How to get a list of product categories and their ID's from Magento?

I'm trying to import a large number of products from a DB into Magento. The DB has many different product categories, which I've recreated within Magento. However, when importing the products via a CSV, you must list the category ID rather than the name. Is there any way to bring up a list like the following: id | category 1 | pies 2 | ...

UML of website page navigation

I need someones help in creating UML for web navigation: If the dropdown in page1 have values "A" "B" "D" Web navigates by.. Page1 -> Page2 -> Page 3-> Page 4 if a drop down in page 1 is having value "C" then Page1 -> Page2 -> Page 4 Please help in creating a UML for this. ...

how to get search engines to understand a DB driven asp.net site

All, This would seem like a fairly basic asp.net question - but in all my years of coding, I've never really thought about it. Say you have a asp.net 2.0 site with only a masterpage and a default.aspx and its a blog that saves all the data into the database. Links on the side are generated automatically. So ... the URL is always just...

AppSettings on a different .config file not being updated

I am trying to do the exact same thing mentioned on this recent previous question. In essence, here's the case (which is exactly my same situation): My plan is to have these (appSettings) in their own file (Settings.config), to which I will grant modify permissions to the web process user account, and store all editable se...

How do I figure out what technologies/framework/APIs are used in a particular website?

Let's take the example of mint.com. I can easily see the HTML/CSS source but how do I find out if it's written in PHP/Python and what other languages/APIs/frameworks and other stuff was used in making this website? Don't get me wrong: this is only for learning/research purposes. ...

best way to gather statistics from web widget

I have a web widget, which is basically a JS file that people can reference to in their website and it does something cool lets say. currently I'm gathering statistics by doing an AJAX request to some dummy image file on my server, its like this: http://www.myserver.com/image.png?views=120&openings=80&close=65 I monitor these...

How to verify if the Web Service caller is my web site?

For security reason, i need to garantee that only web client running an specif web site can access the web service. I'm doing verification over the domain request only, but i need to do some more robust. I think is too easy to break my security check. ...

What technology was used to implement this Rich Web UI?

In another question, someone mentioned this site which blew me away: http://zoomii.com Does anyone know how they implemented this rich UI? At first I thought it was Flash but I don't see the Flash context menu. Did they hide the context menu somehow or is it some other rich web UI technology? ...

What language and (possible) web application framework should I use to develop a high traffic web application?

I'm currently in the pre-planning stages of a solo web application development project for university, which has about a year as time constraint. The application will have certain wiki-like features and may end up getting a high volume of traffic in the future, which is why whichever language and framework I choose must have as priority ...

What is a good website vulnerability scanner?

What are some reliable programs to help me find vulnerabilities in my website? ...

Better Than MVC Pattern

I know there has been much shout about the goodness of MVC pattern. My question is that is there any pattern better than MVC to be implemented in PHP? I don't know but other pattern might have advantages over the MVC pattern. So actually I am in search whether there is something better than MVC. Thanks in advance. ...

What are the must learn technologies as a web developer today?

After being advised by our friends in this community to learn JSON based on a question i asked. I look at JSON for a while and discovered how great it was. It really got me about what technologies that are out necessary for every web developer. For me i feel ever web developer should have Jquery, JSON, XML, Ajax, SQL, XHTML, and CSS. Y...

master page error

Hi I have created a master page and attached other pages to, and it looks fine. But when i run it it give me the following error message- *Parse Error Message: The file'/projectname/MasterPage.vb' does not exist* I dont know why becuase the master page is there. and it continues to the next line and says- Line1 <% Master Language="V...

What Source Control?

I desperately need source control to manage projects between more than one developer. A long time ago I used Visual Source Safe and it worked quite well. Can anybody recommend a free substitute? I have the following basic requirements: I need to host the repository on my own server. I do not want extra clutter within my source files,...

Is there a standard permissions scheme for web server directories?

I have built many web sites and have used a few different ways of setting the permissions on my folders. I would like to know if there is a definitive configuration for web server directories. I have listed the folders which I consider to be standard in a typical web site directory, what is the permssion setting required for each one?...

Good learning materials for Lean Programming

Hello guys, I am looking into improving my practice of web development and come across the popular term of LEAN Programming. Have you guys got some recommended sources of information that I could dig on , any thing would be appreciated. Thanks ...

What is the best way to make login session with Perl's HTML::Mason?

Hi, I'm with some difficulties in make this. I have a login HTML form, and I want to know if the user and password match with the information in my MySQL server. What is the best way to do it? Thank you very much ...

Drupal Taxonomy Module - Limiting the number of links that are displayed per tag

I've got a site with tags like robotics, programming, simulation, quizzes etc. and I want to limit the number of links being displayed for a certain tag to a number. For example if there are 20 nodes that actually have quizzes as a tag then only 10 nodes should b displayed that have quizzes as a tag and the rest of the nodes can be displ...

CSS Positioning Puzzle

The image below represents a website layout I am trying to create. The blue section (bottom right) represents an image should be behind the three neighboring elements and overflow them slightly. I do not know the best way to do this, at the minute I have a wrapper div round the colored sections and put a background image in there but I...