web-development

How to translate website in another language?(ASP .NET , c#)

Hi All, I have developed a large business portal. I just realized I need my website in another language. I have researched the solutions available like Used third party control on my website. (Does fit in my design. Not useful regarding SEO point of view. Dont want to show third party brand names.) Create Resource files for each langu...

Prompt user to "Open firefox" if the website is opened in "IE"

Hi , I have a website,which is "currently" designed & tested to work only on firefox.If user tries to open it in other browser then I want to show a popup saying "This site works best with Mozilla Firefox. We're working hard to add support for your favorite browser. Meanwhile, do try it with Firefox." Can we provide a buttion on clicki...

Could someone give me an example of node.js application

Guys, I'm trying to understand the differences between some of the newer web programming frameworks that now exists, namely Node.js, Rails, and Sinatra. Could someone give me an example of applications that would work best on each of the frameworks? That is to say, what is an application that would be best suited for Node.js as oppose...

Terminology: What is this web gui action/type actually called

Terminology: What do you call this type of web gui feature? I'm trying to research on a gui interaction where the user chooses an option, and the next set of options are loaded based on the previous. I'm calling it cascading, but that doesn't seem to be right. Example below: User chooses company A company A services load user chooses ...

IE8 error when loading web page

I am helping to make improvements to a SharePoint 2007 page that someone else has developed. This stuff is pretty new to me, so please forgive me if this is a noob question. When I load the page in IE8, I get the following error: Message: Object doesn't support this property or method Line: 159 Char: 2 Code: 0 URI: <blah>/Pages/defaul...

PHP - MySQL display highest ID number

What SQL query would I use to display the newest entry? Details: id is the primary field. I have other fields but that are not related to when they were added. ...

Login session lost after flex chart is displayed from jsp

I have a java web application. When I log in to that application and navigate to a jsp which has flex chart embeded into it, the chart displayes just fine. I am using blaze ds remoting object mechanism. But when I want to navigate to a different page, it logs me out of application since the login session is lost. ...

Organizing Lots of Data in Search Results

I'm working on a pretty basic web app (not much more than CRUD stuff). However, the requirements call for a bunch of data to be displayed with each item in the search results - IDs, dates, email addresses, long descriptions... too much to fit neatly into a simple grid, and too dissimilar to make them flow together (like the natural lang...

iPhone simulator for Windows

I would like an iPhone simulator for Windows. Something similar to this one here: http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/38-basics-tips-on-designing-for-the-iphone/ Note, this is NOT to test iPhone Apps... but rather, to test websites. I know I could just use a browser, but I was hoping for something with a bit more functionality ( sp...

Is php capable of doing what I want?

Hey stack overflow, I'm working on a biology web based application and trying to figure out what language to use. The features I need to include are: Image viewing frame - This area will display the current image that the biologists wish to see. The application needs to take in a number of coordinates from a file and draw those point...

Fuel Gauge in JavaScript?

Looking for a fuel gauge in JavaScript (no flash please). I founf this site, anyone try it? FREE - Bindows™ Ajax Gauges Library Any other recommendations? Thank You, Greg ...

Accessing the location object of an external script from the external script

Here's an interesting JS q... suppose you have: host1.html on host1.com which references an external javascript (host2.js) on host2.com. In the host2.js, I'd like to get the location.hostname of the host serving the host2.js, but because host2.js is called inside of host1.html, it returns the location.hostname of host1. Is there a way...

.NET Web application that can be accessed from mobile device

Hello, I am planning on developing .NET web application which also will be accessed from mobile device. I am thinking to create two separate projects, one for web site and one mobile device so that upon detecting whether users are accessing the web site either from computer or mobile device, start appropriate project (web site version or...

having trouble with my website's cookies

Hey, I'm having problems with cookies on my website. After validating user credentials, the following code is executed if "remember me" is set: session_start(); $_SESSION['username'] = $myusername; if(isset($_POST['remember'])){ setcookie("cookname", $_SESSION['username'], time() + 60 * 60 * 24 * 100, "/"); } Every page o...

Django Models / SQLAlchemy are bloated! Any truly Pythonic DB models out there?

"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler." Can we find the solution/s that fix the Python database world? Update: A 'lustdb' prototype has been written by Alex Martelli - if you know any somewhat lightweight, high-level database libraries with multiple backends we could wrap in syntax sugar honey, please weigh in! from some...

Suggestions for a web framework with no external dependencies

Recently I was asked to take over the website of a small-ish non-profit organization. The website is a pretty simple setup, about a dozen pages of relatively static information, some image galleries and a main page with recent information about the organization, etc. (even the main page won't be updated very often). My first thought was...

How can I test how my websites render on Mobile Safari without buying an iPhone?

All the "emulators" I've found via google are simply a skin on top of Safari desktop or use your OS's default browser :( I borrowed my friends iPhone and noticed the CSS for a pure CSS drop-down menu doesn't render properly and you can't click the links, yet it renders properly on Safari desktop and every other browser even Internet Expl...

hidden folders in Internet

very often in Internet I see links like this: www.abcde.com/~main/material/hello and this part ~main/material/hello is grey, if I remove hello I receive access forbidden, can somebody explain, what is this system, and is it possible receive access? ...

Asset tracking in "real-time" - how best to display in browser?

I am developing an asset tracking system, standard LAMP, and now am wondering how best to present the data to the user in the browser. I expect to track and most a few thousand items, and to refresh them every second or so. I want to draw a floorplan or map of the area and represent the assets the assets symbolically on that (with diff...

Passing time from server to client

Dear all, i am creating a digital clock using images & javascript but i want to pass a server time that time ... How to do that ... I am getting time from server and passing it to Date Following i have given snippet . var time_str = document.clock_form.time_str.value ; //alert (time_str); function dotime(){ theTime=setTime...