web-development

Measure page load time

Is there a free IE addon, that analyses the page load of websites? I look for the following meaures: Download time for each page element (images, etc) Problems/errors for each page element (such as access denied) ...

How to integrate support for Autopaging Plugins

How do I make my website compatible with all those autopaging plugins out there that load the next page beneath the current, thereby saving a page reload? ...

Where do I get figures about web application development?

Hi there, I know this is not truly programming realted, but I think some of you might still have good hints for me: I'll do a research paper on web application development and for that I would like to have an overview of the dominant languages/frameworks in (Enterprise) Web-Application-Development. Of course I have gut feelings tellin...

Experience of developing web version of a desktop application

We are in the process of starting a web version of desktop application developed in Winforms in vs2008 with linq-to-sql.Has anyone ever done such an implementation? What issues you faced when reusing code for web version? ...

ASP.NET to Windows Forms

I searched for a similar question, but haven't seen anyone ask this before. I've been a web developer for a few years now and have never touched windows forms. However, I am taking a job that deals almost exclusively with windows forms. What tips do you have for someone making such a move? Any resources you can share? Thanks! ...

How to pass an IFRAME SESSION to the parent page?

Is it possible to pass a SESSION variable from am embedded IFRAME to the parent page? Meaning: <form> <iframe> upload image to fake AJAX. With PHP, set $_SESSION to be the location of the temporary uploaded photo </iframe> <input type="submit" /> // will this form submit have the $_SESSION variable set from the IFRAME? </form> ...

Web Application (Django) typical project folder structure

I am very new to web development, just wanted to figure out if there is a recommended(preferred) project folder structure to use (may be even specific to Django based projects). Thank you. ...

Download estimator for web site

I would like to calculate/estimate the amount of time file will take for download. Is there any way using which this can be achieved using JavaScipt or something else? What level of accuricy can be achieved ? (+evs / -evs ) I have tries this by downloading small image and then performing maths to get the bandwidth and time needed. But ...

Serving images with JavaScript on a website

I'm trying to find different ways to serve images on a web site. The most straight forward is obviously to use the <img> tag. What other methods exist? I like the way images are served here: When a user clicks on the image, a larger version is presented and the surrounding screen darkens. There are also 'next image' and 'previous ...

All Available Tags in web.config file of asp.net

hi i want the list of all available tags list & desc of xml tags ...

Web development editor

Hello, I'm new to web development and I don't know an editor with auto completion. I need such for xhtml,jscript,jquery and css. It does not matter if commercial or not,so what do the top web developers on SO use for web development? Thanks in advance! ...

How does the COMSPEC environmental variable effect a cgi executable?

It appears that a cgi app (in C, VS C++) does not inherit the COMSPEC environmental variable. When adding the variable to the application: _putenv( "COMSPEC=C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe" ); // C4996 the cgi application no longer executes from the browser but is interpreted as a file for download. (i.e. - Save this file?) My quest...

Are there good classes for web GUI architecture?

I'm a GUI developer in a big company that thinks "developer" == "java". Through sheer force of willpower and talent, I've convinced them that thinking about the GUI as a structured aspect of the site rather than an "eh we'll take care of that later" value-add is important. So I want to take some courses to move my career upward on this ...

Need a zip locator feature on a site. Where to start?

Hey guys! So I have been tasked to create a site which has a dentist locator based on the zip code inputted. There will be 8 dentists that will be available. I will probably set up a table in a mysql database to hold the information on the dentists (more will be added in the future). I just don't really know how to get started. I kno...

Best practices for sending automated daily emails from web service

I am running a web service that currently sends confirmation emails out to new users via the gmail smtp servers. As I'm only getting a few new users each day, this hasn't been a problem. I've recently added new features to the webapp that will require a customized message to be sent out to each user every day. Think of this as similar ...

How to show unread subforums?

I have written a simple forum in PHP using PostgreSQL. The forum consists of a number of subforums (or categories, if you like) that contain topics. I have a table that stores when was the last time a user visited a topic. It's something like this: user_id, topic_id, timestamp. I can easily determine what topics should be marked as unre...

Change style of all elements of a class via prototype javascript

This is probably really simple, but the prototype docs on the $$(function) really suck. What do I DO with all the items once the function gives them to me? First I tried: $$('div.category').style.height = 400 +"px"; Then: $$('div.category').each(.style.height = 400 +"px"); Finally: for (x in $$('div.category')) { x.style.heig...

Language/framework to write Excel spreadsheets, webbased

I need to make a webpage (from scratch) that will interrogate a SQLite database (with a predetermined query) to produce an Excel compatible spreadsheet. I need to find a lightweight solution to implement this, but don't know where to look and what is recommended. The page itself will be fairly vanilla, only takes two dates as input, and...

ajax call to servlet puzzler

Greetings! I'm having a problem getting a text value of a captcha from a servlet through ajax call. When my captcha gets created, its text value is written to session, but after refreshing the image itself though ajax call, I only get one old value of the text. Refreshing the image itself works ok, but I'm stuck getting the correct v...

IE7 Bug: CSS background hidden, shows on hover

I'm having a weird problem in IE7, the CSS background image (bullet) on some <li>'s are hidden and visible on others. When I hover over them though, they become visible. I tried adding position:relative on li but it didn't help. How do fix this? Screenshot: Thanks! ...