I am a web developer working with 2-3 people including me. Our current setup is very simplistic. We try to let each other know when we are working on a specific file. We use FTP to edit our files. Recently we have run into the problem of 2 people accidentally editing one file, or working on a local file then uploading when another pe...
I have a group of writers around the world all trying to work on one story. I want them to be able to work with each other like they would on google documents, but from within our application. Specifically, being able to see who else is working on the document and what they are changing in real time. Something like an embedded etherpad. ...
Fellow stack overflowers, I'm currently working on a project that has a sizable amount of both client and web code. The client code is written in C# and the web piece is written in PHP. Maintaining consistency between the two worlds is becoming cumbersome, and I want consolidate the web code to .Net. The issue is that I hate web develo...
Hello, I am trying to find the best option to create a simple progress bar that I need to be triggered periodically from within another JavaScript script. Every few minutes, a timer would cause the progress bar to start going from 0 to 100%. Once it reaches 100%, the bar would reset to 0. I am trying to implement a smooth animated ve...
Question: How does Google create the dropshadow next to the vertical scrollbar over the Google Map? Linked below is a screenshot depicting exactly what I'm talking about. http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2214/googlemaps.png This seems to be regardless of browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome) and platform (Windows, Mac, Linux). ...
I'm using Google Maps v3. I really like the InfoWindows found in Bing, as opposed to Google. Screenshots & functionality found here comparing the two: http://www.axismaps.com/blog/2009/07/data-probing-and-info-window-design-on-web-based-maps/ Question: How can I replicate Bing like InfoWindows while using Google Maps v3? UPDATE: T...
Has anyone used Lua for web development? If so, what was your experience of Lua vs using Perl/Ruby/Python/PHP/etc ...
Hey guys, I am web developer who currently works mostly on his own but, some projects require outside coding help (my brother.) Anyway, after running in to the problem of "working on the same files" and "saving over each others edits" I decided to research ways to avoid this. Through the help of stackoverflow I decided on subversion. ...
I just bought a new MacBook Pro which comes with Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (Mac OS X 10.6.2). I am used to using XAMPP as my local development server on XP. Since Mac OS X is based on Unix, I was thinking on activating/installing all the necessary stuff as I would normally do on Linux. However, I am not quite ready to be playing around with th...
I have image and txt file of same size say 200 KB. Now i would like to calculate the time to download the image and text of text file. Now my question is adding image to DOM and and then calculating time on onload and requesting content of txt file using Ajax will they take same time or due to image and xml they will take different tim...
In this asp.net page, there is a link that leads to another page in a certain subfolder, It has always worked. Recently, for technical reasons (irrelevant) , the port number had to be changed (80 to 81). Every link keeps working, but there is ONE that doesn't keep the port number no matter what. <asp:HyperLink runat="server" Text="link...
Hi, I have a couple of UI elements such as buttons in my web application. I was going to use CSS3's transitions to animate the transition from one background-image to another. I figured out that it's not possible with the current transitions draft at least. So, I was wondering if it would make sense to use Canvas as the button. I'm sure...
Where can I read more about creating linked slides like at the top of nytimes.com, slate.com, yahoo.com, nyu.edu, etc. I assume it's javascript, but I'm not sure what it's called, so I'm not sure how to look it up. I want to create a box at the top of a website with blocks of html text which slide in sequence if the user clicks next or...
I would like to allow users to call my ruby on rails app as a service which returns a 'div' with html content in it, and embed that div into their app (which will not be a rails application). For example, assume someone has their own php website that has a header/footer template that gets rendered, and a content area of the page that ...
I am creating a e-learning application , where the students (wireless) connect to the teachers machine, the teacher hosts a tomcat server. the teacher has a set of HTML web-pages(each of which can be thought of as a slide). and the students can view a web slide-show on his/her browser... the problem is.... i want the pages on the stud...
In the java web application need to select the file from server and print to the local printer. how it can be done Thanks in advance ...
So I'm starting up in Zend framework and looking to implement a site-wide "User" session.... something I can easily access from ALL modules/controllers in the application. I'm like, should I make a new namespace in the library and extend the controller, like: class MYCUSTOMLIB_Controller_Action extends Zend_Controller_Action { prot...
Hey everyone, I want to make a code snippet database web application. Would the best way to store it in the database be to html encode everything to prevent XSS when displaying the snippets on the web page? Thanks for the help! ...
I have a web application that uses login and sessions (cookies). Why is it that sometimes, when the iPhone is going slow with the 3G network (super super slow), the iphone doesn't see the cookies? Cookies don't work when the iPhone network is slow!!! ...