web-development

Making GWT application crawlable by a search engine.

I want to use the #! token to make my GWT application crawlable, as described here: http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/ There is a GWT sample app available online that uses this, for example: http://gwt.google.com/samples/Showcase/Showcase.html#!CwRadioButton Will serve the following static webpage to the googlebot: http://gwt.goo...

submitting data via email to websystem

I'm working on a task system and I'd like to be able to submit a task to the system by emailing it to a particular address. I'm thinking I could set my user by the sender, the task subject by the subject and the task comments by the text of the email. Not sure the version of Exchange we have available if that matters but I'm running .n...

registering a user with email confirm and captcha?

Does it make any sense to include a captcha when registration already requires email confirmation? any added benefit or just a waste of effort? ...

How to use anchors instead of Submit button in Struts2 ?

I wish to use anchors instead of submit button in a struts tag form. Can I do it ? How should i create it ? please help ...

Website not opening in Chrome?

One of my friend's site's users getting this error. Oops! This link appears to be broken in Google Chrome http://www.labnol.org/software/webpages-not-opening-in-google-chrome/13041/ Can he do something with their hosting to ensure users of his site will not get this error. ...

Completely remove ViewState for specific pages

Hi everybody, I have a site that features some pages which do not require any post-back functionality. They simply display static HTML and don't even have any associated code. However, since the Master Page has a <form runat="server"> tag which wraps all ContentPlaceHolders, the resulting HTML always contains the ViewState field, i.e: ...

Send mail from my web application

I have a feature in my web app like I have to send mails from the server to many email ids (some kind of notification stuff) my web application is implemented in struts2. Possibly I have to use javamail api i guess. I am completely new to this javamail and sending mail from server. what basic steps I need to do to setup a mail server in...

Get information from PayPal after a transaction

I want to create a simple transaction on my Web Site where after the person's transaction completes, I want paypal to redirect the user to go to a place on my site and I want PayPal to provide me with details so I can use PHP to parse it and email them the link to their purchase. I'm not sure what notify_url does? Thanks ...

Is there a better way to keep track of session variable creation/access throughout different pages?

Here's what I am working on. At my website I have multiple processes with each one containing multiple steps. Now in one of the processes, there is an error checking routine executed before proceeding to the next step of that process. A session var is set indicating the error status and it will either redirect back to the referrer or dis...

SelectedIndexChanged for programmatically created dropdownlist in ASP.NET fires multiple times.

Consider the following: dim dropdownlist1 as new dropdownlist dim dropdownlist2 as new dropdownlist dim dropdownlist3 as new dropdownlist dropdownlist1.AutoPostBack = true dropdownlist2.AutoPostBack = true dropdownlist3.AutoPostBack = true AddHandler dropdownlist1.SelectedIndexChanged, AddressOf SomeEvent AddHandler dropdownlist2.Sele...

Best way to convert log files (*.txt) to web-friendly files (*.html, *.jsp, etc)?

I have a bunch of log files which are pure text. Here is an example of one... Overall Failures Log SW Failures - 03.09.2010 - /logs/swfailures.txt - 23 errors - 24 warnings HW Failures - 03.09.2010 - /logs/hwfailures.txt - 42 errors - 25 warnings SW Failures - 03.10.2010 - /logs/swfailures.txt - 32 errors - 27 warnings HW Failures - 03....

The connection was reset

"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." Hi, I am trying to load a php page on apache , but none of the static content gets loaded. Using firebug I captured the static url and tried it separately, when I received "The connection was reset" message. The site works other computers mac, windows, linux but no o...

which techonology is good for my online store?

I am thinking about build a online store for my wife to sale something. we need database for customer info and goods info. we also need shopping cart for customers to use. I have yrs java experience but no web experience (know a little about jsp and servlet). I am thinking using wicket and other java technologies plus MySQL to build it. ...

ASP.NET MVC Actions that return different views, or just make a ton of Actions?

So, I am in a situation, where I need to display a different view based on the "Role" that the authenticated user has. I'm wondering which approach is best here: [Authorize(Roles="Admin")] public ActionResult AdminList(int? divID, int? subDivID) { var data = GetListItems(divID.Value, subDivID.Value); return View(data); } [Aut...

ecommerce platform evaluation

Anybody has experience with Magento community version and Appach OFBiz? Could you please share your feeling with me? I am trying to find a free ecommerce platform to start with. OFBiz is using Java. Don't know what's the language Magento is using. thanks, ...

asp.net MVC: binary deployment of mvc views

Hi, how can I deploy an mvc application, without publishing the aspx view files. Is there a way to publish the generated dll assemblies? In the project file is an option "MvcBuildViews", which builds these dll files. But they are build in a temp directory and not used in the publishment process. Is there a way to include these files? ...

Anyone have experience with AppScale?

I just found this project which provides a way of running Google App Engine projects on your own server cluster. http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ It looks really interesting, has anyone had any experience using it? ...

File upload and Download in a web app using struts2

Hi In struts2 upload methods, can I choose where the uploaded file must be saved. I mean, all the examples in web ask me to store in WEB-INF which surely is not a good idea. I want to be able to store the uploaded file in any place in my disk. How should i do it? Can i do it with help of ServletContextAware interceptor ? When I use ...

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.....?

Hi guys I always got this error from my site and it keeps bugging me.I've been trying to figure out the cause of this error but I can't really figure it out. Here's the stacktrace: at BasePage.Page_PreInit(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Page.OnPreInit(EventArgs e...

enableviewstatemac=true

Does setting enableviewstatemac to "true" affects the site's performance? Could you give me some explanation? ...