web-development

Python web hosting: Numpy, Matplotlib, Scientific Computing

I write scientific software in Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib. Having developed applications on my home computer, I am now interested in writing simple web applications. Example: user uploads image or audio file, my program processes it using Numpy/Scipy, and output is displayed on the browser using Matplotlib, or perhaps the user can download a...

Getting started with MySQL

I have a website that currently collects information when a comment is left (Name, number etc...) but right now I just have a PHP script that sends an email to me with that info using the mail() function. I don't know if MySQL might be extreme, but Id like a way to put their info into some kind of database. Thanks! ...

When do we need <auth-constraint> element empty?

Hi I wanna know when I leave empty element empty in my Deployment Descriptor file then it does not grant any role to access But when do i need it DD where all the time anyone role must access my web page. In which situation I do not need no role to be accessed? ...

How does Google achieve the fading effect on the home page?

If you go to google.com, you notice the menu on top slowly appears once you have mouse over the page. I was wondering what does Google use to control the fading effect? [edit] since I don't use jQuery, I don't want to include it just to use this feature ...

Graduate / Junior Web developer

Hi, I was wondering whether I could get some advice from some more experienced developers out there. Basically I will be graduating this summer with a degree in computing and am keen to go into web development. At the moment I have a a fair bit of experience with php (object orientated) and while I have also have a fair bit of c# expe...

Wicket or Grails for a content centric site?

I want to build a web application like a wiki and a forum. There will be much more readers than editors. My favourites to implement it are Grails and Wicket. Grails: I like the integrated environment with which you can start quickly. I think the classic stateless mvc approach is well suited to a content centric website. Disadvantages ar...

Need some advice about Web Development Project

Hi, For our Intro to Web Development class, my team (4 students in total) was thinking of building a site like stackoverflow for our term project. What we envision is that everyone in our CS program including students from higher levels can have a common place to communicate and help each other. I know that this sounds really big but ...

Feedly.com development and feed parser

Is http://feedly.com built using PHP, Java, or some other language/framework? I have googled for some information on it, and saw that it uses JSON/REST extensively. But, I am not sure as to what feed parser is used to render images and videos into the application so elegantly, ie: ...

html css alignment

Hi All, I am trying to align an image and some text together. If you refer the below code there will be and image and some text( Name and Age) I want both of them to be next to each other. I did try float: left but still no luck. Thanks <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/x...

Menus and sub Menus problem?

Using CSS Style Sheet In my web page, i have two class like menu and leftside. In menu i have the ul, li classes. i want to use a ul, li in left side also, but the problem is if i used the ul, li, it was matching with menu ul, li ul -underlist, li - list I tried to change the code of sheet, my css code. #leftside{ float: left; ...

Internet Explorer OL problem with decimals over 9

In my website, I've got an ol with decimals (list-style-type:decimal). In Internet Explorer, when the list gets over 9 the decibel starts at 0 again. This is how it should be displayed, and how it's displayed in Firefox: This is how Internet Explorer 7 and 6 displays it (IE8 not tested yet): So the list starts at zero again. CSS of t...

How should I handle website config files when importing a site into a SVN repository?

I'm starting to use SVN repositories for all of our websites and wanted to know what the best practise was regarding website config files. Should they be stored in the repository? The problem is the configuration of the websites need to be different for the working copies than that of the live sites. If I edit the config file for a work...

Should a website's images folder and images be stored in SVN repository?

I'm currently importing all of our PHP websites into SVN repositories. Each site has a images folder which contains all the sites images. The images are updated quite frequently as most of them are offer graphics. Should the images (binaries) be stored in the repository? The other issue is that they are updated all the time. How would...

What is the difference between "image/png" and "image/x-png"?

What is the difference between "image/png" and "image/x-png"? ...

Best tool for testing IE from a Mac - without a PC...

What is the best way/service to test cross browser compatibility for a website design. I am on a Mac and need to see across all mac browsers and all PC browsers as well (obviously). ...

Web Host Updates Whole Site instead of Only The UpdatePanel

I'm having some problem finding the source of the problem, but here it goes, maybe you know the magic answer. I'm running this asp.net site with an AJAX updatePanel on my local machine, and everything works just fine, since it's where I developed it. Now, a few days ago, I uploaded the files to my web-host and assigned every single Data...

Hiding Controls as a Form of Web Security, Suggestions for Better?

I am working on a website (developed in ASP.NET with C#) that was passed on to me. As I'm working through the site, I notice much of the site has this type of code in it: EmailLabel.Visible = false; WhateverButton.Visible = false; AnotherControl.Visible = false; ... This is all typically done in the code-behind of the site (in the Pa...

Google Maps v3 - Events being fired

I'm trying to find a way to print every single Event that is being fired during the process of loading a Google Maps v3 (JavaScript API). http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/v3/reference.html Question: Does anyone know of an existing demo that prints the Events, e.g. "bounds_changed" etc, when fired? Or know how I would cod...

dynamic navigation list menu

Hi All, I am working on a small application and I basically need a list of 5 items say Name Address City Country Zipcode Whenever the user clicks on anyone of these he needs to be directed to another page and that particular item needs to be highlighted. I want to do this dynamically. I have an idea that it can be done with javascr...

How to Send Mail from JavaMail via Localhost

Hi, I am creating a form, which will send out the details via email upon user completes his details and click submit. Mail Submission with JavaMail: protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); try { ...