I have a Web application (http://www.holidaystreets.com), it has around 120,000+ pages. Whenever we restart the server it takes more then 15 minutes for the site to warm up. I built it as 'Release', do not have any heavy stuff initilizing (i.e. Control Adapters or in APPInit). Any tips? Mystery Solved Well I spoted the problem today. T...
Is there a way to catch all keyboard input in a browser? Im guessing it would have to be JavaScript. My problem is that I have a USB Bar Code Scanner which the computer treats as a second keyboard. I dont want the user to have to click on the input box for bar codes to be entered in it. But I also want them to be able to hit key short c...
Is it possible to call a php function when an html radio button is selected? I'm working on building a donate page for a small non-profit school that will have three options: Donate, Pay Tuition, or Make a Monthly Donation. I would like for the choice of the radio button to load the rest of the webpage based on their selection. If poss...
Is there any way using JavaScript(or something else) to detect/prevent that user clicked on browser back/forward button ? I would like to know about the common practice to deal with this issue. This is really pain especially in the work flow like ordering. ...
I'm trying to resize an html element (flash object) but it doesn't seem to respond more than once per second? Is this a limitation imposed by browsers (both IE7 and FF3 do this)? Or should I be attempting to resize in a different/more efficient way? function setHeightNow(height) { if (document.getElementById) { if (height >...
Hi I'm developing a website which might grow up to a few thousand users, all of which would upload up to ten pictures on the server. I'm wondering what would be the best way of storing pictures. Lets assume that I have, 5000 users with 10 pictures each, which gives us 50 000 pics. (I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to store them in th...
For an online examination system, user actions/answers to be stored and later retrieved if user connection is down. Which logic should be preferred, client side logic [cookie], or server side logic [Session/Database]? [Edit] How user answers will be stored? using specific timer interval for storing user answers? or after specific parts...
I've been learning HTML/css/PHP/mySQL/Javascript for a little while now, trying to develop a skill set that I can develop into a career. I've reached a point where I want to try a few small paid projects to get started, but everywhere I look (read: mostly craigslist) the only jobs I see are things like "Can somebodyz clone this web app f...
Not really even sure what to call what I am trying to do so I will just explain. I have a section at the top of my site that I want to display announcement type messages. Theses messages will only be relevant to members of the site. As such, I would like for when they begin to type in their username and password, the div/message to appea...
I am developing requirements for a new website design for my company. I have noticed that we have a fair number of pages that have only a few sentences of information on them. These pages cover a range of topics that are unrelated to each other and unrelated to other larger sections. I was thinking about incorporating them into an FAQ...
Hi, I am using SVN for source code management on a Classic ASP app that I develop/support. I maintain several versions of the app as required by my company: Discovery/playground version - where I do all the work. My Working Copy Dev/Test versions (no access to these sites/servers) Live version (no access to these sites/servers) Here ...
My company is building Flash video web app which features uploading. I am in charge of this project, and have some and questions before I start to plan the structure and code. We have a Windows server machine, running 2008, where we are going to host this app. We develop primarily in ASP.NET MVC using C#. We are going to put the Flash ...
Hi I am writing a Facebook application that would use a Postgres DB along with Facebook APIs and run on Amazon EC2. (and I am hoping for heavy loads ) With Java, I know that DB would be my primary bottleneck and concurrency limitations of Tomcat would be the secondary bottleneck. I could alleviate DB issues with caching and concurren...
I am looking into developing a small (read:rudimentary) web server on a linux platform and I have no idea where to start. What I want it to be able to do is: Listen on a specific port Take HTTP post and get requests Respond appropriately No session management required Has to be in C or C++ Has to run as a service on boot I am famili...
I'm just getting started on JavaServer Faces and it looks very attractive. However I'd like to use my own servlets in the same web application as JSF. This might be really obvious, but what are the best practices for integrating JSF with a "normal" servlets-based application? This would include accessing JSF data from the servlets (read...
Background: I have a new site in the design phase and am considering using Cold Fusion. The Server is currently set-up with ColdFusion and Python (done for me). It is my choice on what to use and ColdFusion seems intriguing with the tag concept. Having developed sites in PHP and Python the idea of using a new tool seems fun but I want t...
Django code samples involving post data often shows code similar to this: if request.method == "POST": post = request.POST.copy() #do stuff with post data Is there a reason for copying the post data instead of working with it directly? ...
Probably a duplicate of this question. Silly javascript question: I want to check if an object is the emtpy object. I call empty object the object that results from using the empty object literal, as in: var o = {}; As expected, neither == nor === work, as the two following statements alert({}=={}); alert({}==={}); give false...
I have an ASP Page that uses two listboxes and a third party control (Fluent.ListTransfer) to transfer values from one list to the other. Fairly standard stuff: <td> <asp:ListBox ID="ListBoxAvailable" Runat="server" SelectionMode="Multiple" EnableViewState="true"> </asp:ListBox> </td> <td style="vertical-align: middle"...
Am just wondering how do companies/individuals come up with nice UI design for there complex web applications, eg. Myspace, facebook, linkedin etc. When i say complex i mean, this apps handle many different pieces of information, yet the way they present it to the user is pretty simple and friendly. The only approach i use is to look at...