I want to learn, at least at a basic level, how to build java web applications (coming from a .net background). Meaning, I would like to be able to build, deploy a simple cms type application from the ground up. What exactly do I need to learn? Tomcat seems to be a good web server for Java. What options are there for the web? I kn...
I am a Web developer and in my projects I have noticed that my weakest point is not being good at the front-end design. Relying on other designers can be annoying if they are not able to produce as quickly as I want. My perspective on HTML/CSS is that it is basically a big hack that amazingly works. There are too many CSS and browser ...
I work on Windows app and every week I want to upload the new data (rows) to the server and i want to upload the new db from asp.net web page and i'm using sqlserver2005 for our co branches or from my local server. What is the best way to do so upload complete db mdf and delete the old one ! Do I update only the new rows and how can I...
Greetings, I am currently exploring some extreme programming and try to stick as much to it as possible. This means, I will need to turn my (by now, unexpectedly thick stack of) user stories into acceptance tests once I begin an iteration (after planning the release, of course). I am not entirely sure about the implementation language...
Hello experts, I have to develop an elearning application. For which I wanted to know which platform is best. PHP or .Net. I would be integrating third party applications in my project. Someone pls guide me in right direction. Thanks. Kavitha ...
Can't find the shortcut for clicking on the magnifying glass for inspecting HTML elements in Safari 4. Any idea on this? (or any resource with a complete list of the web development shortcuts) ...
Merry Christmas Guys, Has somebody tested their website on multiple versions of different browsers? I am running Windows and wanted to test if my site breaks on FF 2, 2.5, 3 or IE 6, 7. Is there a resource on the net where I can download older versions of these browsers? Further, How do I run all the versions in parallel - won't a newer...
Hi there, I am trying to create a way to show and hide a number of different elements on my page, depending if the user is logged in or not. For example I want to hide 'Logout' is users are not logged in, and 'login' when they are. I'm using Coldfusion and Dreamweaver - is there any quick easy code I am able to use to wrap around the ...
I guess this is going to sound like a pretty basic question to any web developers out there, but HTML and CSS are not really my thing and I'm on a really steep learning curve, so please cut me a little slack. I have a silverlight control the I've developed with some animated graphics that I need to position at the bottom right hand corn...
I want some questions to be answered by our fellow developers regaurding coding standards. Is it true a developer is judged by his coding standard? What are the best practices of coding standards which could be followed in a web application? What are the common coding standards that budding developers fail to adapt in their application...
I am building my website in adobe flex(i am n00b). I have some photographs which I would like to make sure that people cannot print. I do understand that it is not possible to completely stop users from printing. But atleast disable the context menu or just the print option and the copy option. Any and all things about this is helpful...
I mean,, that would be the only issue to worry about when using silverlight compared to flash... do you think this issue could be solved in 2-3 years? ...
what are the pros and cons of each? ...
I was wondering if it's possible to write cookies to clients from unsigned applets. ...
Hi, I have td like this: <td align="left" bgcolor="#FF0000"> In browsers, there is a red background color applied to it but when i see print preview of this, there is no red color in the background. also the font color is white but it also gets converted to white when print previewing it. Anyone knows what can be the reason? Thanks...
What is the best way to integrate a legacy phpBB forum into a new Joomla site? Basically I want to keep the navigation links (top and main menu), and embed the forum as pages in the site. Is this feasible? ...
I have a form that has three submit buttons as follows: <input type="submit" name="COMMAND" value="‹ Prev"> <input type="submit" name="COMMAND" value="Save"> <input type="reset" name="NOTHING" value="Reset"> <input type="submit" name="COMMAND" value="Next ›"> <input type="button" name="NOTHING" value="Skip ›" oncli...
JasperReports is cool with JAVA web apps. CrystalReports is not equivalent to it :D what tool can we use in asp.net web applications ? ...
I see insinuations here and there that it's bad to run a live deployment directly off a DVCS clone, and better to export a clean tree or tarball and deploy that. It seems to me that running directly from a DVCS clone has several advantages: No need to transport the entire codebase on every deployment. Trivial to update code to any desi...
There are two main strategies for handling multiple "applications" on the web: subdomains (e.g. wiki.example.org, blog.example.org, admin.example.org, api.example.org/v1) subdirs (e.g. example.org/wiki, example.org/blog, example.org/admin, example.org/api/v1) What are the differences (advantages and disadvantages) of these two soluti...