WHY?! ... Maybe that's your first thought when reading the headline of this topic. There's a variety of open source CMS' out there to suit everyone's needs. And I guess you're right... in fact I very much agree. But this topic is for naive and stubborn programmers like myself who really like the idea of developing their own CMS from s...
I just received a memo (dated Feb 29) from our pals at Mountain View. Apparently they want us to start using another tag to specify canonical urls. As someone who builds a fair amount of websites, this obviously intrigued me, but I was curious to know if anybody else had started using it? Is anybody planning to? ...
Let me explain the basic layout below: |----------------------------| | title banner | | | |----------------------------| | logut-row | |----------------------------| | aN | | <<to be explained>> | | | | ...
I am creating a bookmarklet button that, when the user clicks on this button in his browser, will scrape the current page and get some values from this page, such as price, item name and item image. These fields will be variable, means that the logic of getting these values will be different for each domain "amazon, ebay" for example. ...
Hi, I have just learnt scala and i want to try some web development with it. On Google, one of the frameworks i came across (the only one?) was Lift. Does anyone have any experience with it? Any suggestions for web application development with scala on any other frameworks? Thanks! ...
Here's my situation: I'm an ASP.NET Developer first and foremost. That's not going to change anytime soon. I have built my small business on it. With that being said, I'm looking to add other technologies to my arsenal. Not just for learning purposes, but to one day be able to offer clients an alternative solution. For this reason, ...
I just started to learn jquery and JavaScript so i can implement it with my current asp.net project. However i have a hard time to grasp the idea how to make a dialog that will show up when user attempt to push delete button and then if user chose button "Yes" it will go for the delete function in code behind of asp.net or if user chose ...
I have worked extensively in the area of accessible applications using TTS (Text to speech) and VR (Voice Recognition). I have had occasion to use one handed keyboards for extended periods of time. Traditional UNIX development (my nice little black box of joy) is losing market share to more modern technologies and development environme...
In the past, I've always edited all my sites live; wasn't too concerned about my 2 visitors seeing an error message. However, there may come a day when I get more than 2 visitors. What would be the best approach to testing my changes and then making all the changes go live simultaneously? Should I copy and paste ever single file into a...
Hi There, i am a qualified software engineer who has experience working on designing softwares, databases and websites but I don't understand how do companies find work for software database adn website development? Any advice will be much appreciated.. I do realise it may make me look dumb and may attract negative feedback but all throu...
Can anyone recomend me a simple web UI prototyping tool, so I could quicky prototype the look of a my web site. I have tried to use MS Visio for this, but found it very "user un-friendly". What I really need is to be able quicky sketch the layout of the page, put some links, images and buttons on in, play a little bit with a colors (C...
I can't get the following code to work: a="file=" b=VIDEO_FLV_ROOT c=flv d=" bufferTime=3 " e="autoStart=false " f="quality="&"'"& "high" & "' " path=a & b & c & d & e & f %> <%'=path%> <!-- <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#...
Is there a problem with some versions of PHP and file names which look like this: report.class.php I tried to use one and it failed once and worked once, but I can't replicate the failure. So I'm not sure exactly what the cause is, prefer using the period-separated filenames, but would strongly prefer not to be using "fragile" file na...
Hi, I've been doing PHP/MySQL web development for a while and I'm fairly competent in it. Lately however, I've learnt Java and fallen in love with it, and I'd really like to do more Java work now. I've gotten my first opportunity with a client who needs a web 2.0ish web app built, and he has agreed to let me use anything I want to, inc...
Has anybody built a web application with Factor? What were some of the stumbling blocks or problems that you encountered during the process? ...
Is there a way to force a browser window to always be on top and in focus? I am working on a project that I need to have the browser window on top and in focus all the time except when closing the browser window. I have tried a few things through javascript, but have not had any success keeping the window in focus. I am not trying t...
I'm writing an ASP.NET MVC application and I have a form where a user can enter one or more part numbers that they used to fix a problem. Most of the time they know the part number and can just type it in. Occasionally, however, they need some extra help. The part number table has over 50,000 items in it which is way too big for a d...
What have you guys found to good approaches to developing web applications? For example, do you start with the user interface and then begin adding function? Do you focus on a single resource and code everything around it before moving on to the next? Or do you go layer by layer, starting with the model/DB layer and building up? I'm wo...
I've kind of ran into an ugly snag. I developed a website for a client a few years back, and since then they've transferred their site to a different domain name provider and host. Now they want some updates, but when I try to access their site I get a Network Timeout (the page just tries to load for a few minutes, then firefox shows a...
I'm working on a new portfolio site at http://www.nitrohandsome.com, and am using the experience to cut my teeth on jQuery. I'm using the latest build and jcarouselite along with the easing extension on my main page for a nifty carousel effect. It works fine in most browsers, but when I started testing in IE (7 and 8, haven't started opt...