I have been meaning to implement a "who is online" feature on my site. Was wondering how would you decide if a user is online or not? Some options are: Last seen, less than N minutes ago (what is N?) A comet server with long polling Something else ...
Hi, Background - I have a web application for which a request takes several seconds. Question - How could I display a "waiting" type indicator (e.g. spinner) to the user after they initiate the request, until the actual HTTP request response comes back from the server? Notes - I'm assuming this to be a generic web development questio...
I'm very new to web technologies and this is basically for a term project that my team is working on. We are working on a food review site. As of now, I'm not quite sure how to implement a simple 5-star rating system. Am I supposed to use a server-side language like PHP or a client-side one like Javascript (w/ JQuery). Looking around it...
Thus far worked with C# winforms applications and had success with it.... My next project would be a web based one in asp.net... As i am a newbie i want to know Challenges involved when moving Window based to Web based Development? What are the factors i have to watch out for? ...
My Web pages causes following error on the browser's Back Button, It works fine for firefox but not on IE, IE Says, Most likely cause: •The local copy of this webpage is out of date, and the website requires that you download it again. What you can try: Click on the Refresh button on the toolbar to reload the page. After refres...
I've found this technique to be interesting to short some coding time. Not having to re-create database related statements along with a form binder for webcontrols is indeed interesting in my opinion. But I was wondering if it should be considered a major security risk for non intranet projects because it shows the database structure to ...
I have a simple Django app that has a variety of views of various different asset types. I have various jQuery functions that key off the asset type name and so when I generate the page using the django template I use a template variable to fill in the asset type parameter in the javascript code... $(document).ready(function() { $...
Our smart-client application is deployed using the ClickOnce. Our production site is hosted on 2 separate web servers, and they are pointed from the same domain-name (for load-balancing). Here is what we do when we push updates to the production. In VS, publish the smart-client application into a localhost directory Copy/Paste the dire...
The website (www.hilaryandmatthew.com) for my upcoming wedding has a really nifty JQuery slideshow (courtesy of www.dynamicdrive.com) I hope I can get some help ASAP, I really want my site looking sharp before I send out the Invitations. I don't know anything about JQuery... hence I experience the pitfall of copy&pasting open-source ...
Zend framework is pretty fast growing, we all agree and we all had been surprised while trying out the modular structure of Zend Framework, if to be concrete the bootstraping of the modules - all the bootstrap files of the modules are executed in the beginning no matter if we are using/accessing that module or not. As far as I remember t...
hey guys, I am trying to build a website for myself.. I want to use an image as the header... I have made sure that my background will scale itself for any screen resolution... How do i make sure the image(header) will also scale it self according to the screen resolution... for example: my image is 350px int width and 130px in height....
I'm looking for a way to configure caching only for anonymous users only. The reason I'm looking to do this is when users are logged in and they create content they don't immediately see the content. In our old system (linux/php/mysql) we had it configured to cache only the anonymous users and this wasn't an issue. Right now we have cac...
I am working on a project in asp.net c#. I need to implement horizontal scrolling content slider having image title & description in the home page. Please suggest a good plugin/example that can customized to solve my problem. Screen snapshot of my requirement ...
Hello, I have created this fan page http://www.facebook.com/pages/ohlala/327385737341 and added an application on tab "Special Offers". I just wanted to know if it is possible to add more than one app to the fan page? Can't see any option like i did for the first app. Thanks ...
I have a web application based on a mysql database. It works fine locally but not on the unix machine. I have tried looking at the Tomcat logs but they don't seem to have any errors. How would you go about trying to debug this. I know it' possible that there are no answers. I am just hoping that someone had a similar problem, can post...
There is a requirement to have a offline website. It is like when the connection is available the client or the browser on the PC will download contents required and when there is no internet the client will access be still available with the data which was downloaded earlier. During the discussion there was a suggestion to use http://c...
I have installed Apache Tomcat 5.X/6.X on my Winodws 7 PC. After the installaiton the service starts fine when I check the Start Tomcat box and click finish. However If I try to start the tomcat configuration tool or monitor tool from the start menu I can not start any of the Tomcat's services. I get an error in a message box stating "Ac...
I have Windows 7 Enterprise and I want to run a web server on this computer and I wander what is the best web server would be in my case. I have several requirements to the web server. It should be easy to install and set up the server. Just "click", "accept" and that's it. It should support MySQL and PHP (with GET, POST, SESSION, and ...
I'm looking into some XSS prevention in my Java application. I currently have custom built routines that will escape any HTML stored in the database for safe display in my jsps. However I would rather use a built in/standard method to do this if possible. I am not currently encoding data that gets sent to the database but would like to...
I got a web deyploment project for a web application project in vs 2008. While building the web deployment project, I want to replace properties in the web.config. My settings are autogenrated by the deisgner. <applicationSettings> <NAMESPACE.Properties.Settings> <setting name="Testenvironment" serializeAs="String"> <value>True...