web-development

I never really understood: what is CGI?

CGI is a Comman Gateway Interface. As the name says, it is a "common" gateway interface for everything. It is so trivial and naive from the name. I feel that I understood this and I felt this every time I encountered this word. But frankly, I didn't. I'm still confused. I am a PHP programmer. I did lot of web development. user (clien...

A good way to display large images online

I need to show an image that is 4000x6000 px. What are your experiences with displaying large images online? My initial idea was to use the GMap cutter and the Google Maps API to show the image. GMap Cutter takes an image and cuts it appropriately for use as a google map. My problem with approach is that the image will be changing often...

Internet Explorer 8 error - Expected Identifier, string or number - JQuery...

Wondering what to do about this. Googling but can't seem to find anything. I am using the Cycle Plugin for JQuery and works great in all browsers but IE of course. Same problem in IE 6, 7, and 8. Expected identifier, string or number referring to line 13 of my js file. Anyone know what to do here? js file: $(document).ready(function(...

What are the topics to ramp-up on when starting Silverlight\Web development?

I've been asked to do some work on an existing Silverlight project, mainly extending it a bit and doing bug fixes as needed. But there are a couple of ASP.Net pages too and a WCF service to deal with too. My background is desktop development with .Net so I think this is a good opportunity to start getting more involved in Web developme...

What does it mean for a browser to be "webkit-based" or "gecko-based"?

I hear these terms bandied around quite a bit, especially when discussing feature compatibility... but what do they mean? ...

The Model-Repository-Service-Validator-View-ViewModel-Controller design pattern (?)

When I first heard about ASP.NET MVC, I was thinking that would mean applications with three parts: model, view, and controller. Then I read NerdDinner and learned the ways of repositories and view-models. Next, I read this tutorial and soon became sold on the virtues of a service layer. Finally, I read the Fluent Validation documentati...

Ajax request : application/x-www-form-urlencoded params

While adding the parameters to get/post request they need to be encoded in application/x-www-form-urlencoded form. So do we need to encode values each time ? Does JavaScript have any method for that ? What are the possible caches ? On server side when we read the values we do not decode them we directly say Request.Params["key"] and tha...

Is there a reason CSS doesn't support applying styles from within styles?

In CSS2 and even in the upcoming CSS3, I can't find something that would be completely natural and time-saving - applying CSS styles from within other styles, rather than from HTML. For example: .awesome-image { border: 1px #000 solid; margin: 2px; } .super-awesome-image { .alwesome-image; // or something like that - this is sim...

Can i use a GIF animation as favicon for my website

I need to get some animated effects for favicon on my site. How can i do this?. Help me ...

web base online diagramming (how are those software implemented)

could someone guide me on how web based online diagramming software's work. i would really appreciate if you could point me example resource to get some knowledge on this. Following are the some of the samples web based online tools that i have been trying to studying www.creatly.com http://smoot.sourceforge.net/smoot/ this second ...

What is the maximum size of a cookie, and how many can be stored in a browser for each web site?

I am learning about cookies, and I wonder about browser support when writing web applications that rely on cookies to store state. For each domain/web site, how many cookies may be sent to a browser, and of what size? If multiple cookies are sent and stored, does that affect performance? ...

YUI: Where are forms?

I am comparing ExtJS and YUI. They seem pretty much tied on the technical side. ExtJs costs money, not much. But YUI is free. Maybe I am missing something obvious, but ExtJs lets you define forms. I didn't see forms in YUI. Where are they? ...

How should I implement batch processing for a commercial website?

Hi Guys, I'm really stuck on this one. Users enter some data on my website that I need to process later in a series of batch jobs. I really know always how to work with online transactions. I don't know what are the trends on top techologies to process data on a batch fashion. Should I use cron jobs, it's okay to use Perl for those bat...

ASP.NET Gridview styling not rendering

Why is the following asp.net code not including styling information when being rendered to HTML? <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" CellPadding="4" ForeColor="#333333" GridLines="None"> <RowStyle BackColor="#FFFBD6" ForeColor="#333333" /> <FooterStyle BackColor="#990000" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" /> <P...

Pylons and AuthKit OpenID problem

Hi all! I have troubles setting up the support for openID authentication, using authkit and pylons. I set up everything as described in the cookbook, but still get the following error: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/authkit/authenticate/open_id.py", line 480, in __call__ return self.app(environ, start_response) File "/u...

How to make favicon animation loop continuously?

I am using a favicon on my site with 30 frames for the animation. After the favicon 30th frame plays, the animation stops. I need the favicon to loop continuously. How can I achieve that? ...

How can we use version control in a shared work environment?

Currently our team (web devs, one designer and one copywriter) all work on separate workstations but do our changes on the same dev environment (we all mount the same shared drive), it's a marketing site and not a web application, so no builds or deployments, we just push changes to the live site once they are done, but I think it's impo...

how to do a [?] explanation/'tooltip' link?

Next to an input field, I want to have a small '[?]' link which will display a brief clarification. I would like this link to display this tooltip both when the mouse hovers over the [?] as well as when the [?] is clicked. There is no other action associated with this [?] link. A normal tooltip (as provided by browsers when faced with H...

problem with GWT 2.0 Chrome developer plugin

Hi, I have recently updated the GWT SDK from 1.5.3 to 2.0.0 on a project. I managed to fix all issues but one. I can't use the development mode with chrome. The login page of my application loads perfectly but when I try to log in (i.e. make an RPC) I get the following error: com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptException: (Error): Er...

Using ezStore123 CMS System and want to change layout?

hello all im using a known cms system or maybe old cms system. its a simple ASP.NET application that was hand coded my problem is minor. This cms displays a catalog type website with products from a database. the display looks like its using an html file to house the catalog what i want to do is change that html file to another layout. i...