web-development

Who is Front End Developer?

This is the New term I heard now a days in some Designer Portfolio. What is the Role of Front End Developer. Is the role is the same as the Web Designer.? ...

Web RAD tool suggestion?

I'm currently looking for good (and free if possible) Web RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool or Visual Ajax IDE, something like Morfik or Delphi for PHP with more usual deployment method (both create standalone application or web server modules). What i mean was IDE that support drag-n-drop component for building web application an...

How to host static html files on AppEngine?

Is it possible to host a static html website on AppEngine? And how to make my domain name work with it? ...

Good Open Source Code to learn Web Programming

Hi can someone point me to some Good Open Source Code to learn Web Programming (Language doesn't matter). i'm looking for source code of web-applications not frameworks I'm not a beginner, I can code to some extent. I want to know how stuffs are done in real world applications. ...

Securing web application on the data access level

Hello! Please consider the following setup: Multi-tenant webapp. Tenants create company accounts and company accounts have user accounts under them. Users have roles, there's a special role "Owner" (the user who created the company account). I'd like to have users to edit other user accounts (some admin tasks), but two conditions mu...

Create a link between an email and my web-app ?

I've seen on site like flickr or brightkite, a personnal email is provided to the users. If the user mail somethin to this adresse, the content is posted on his public profile. How can I do that on a web application ? ...

How would you teach web development?

I am the lead instructor of web & internet related courses on a private post high-school institution. My current classes include introductions to HTTP, TCP/IP, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript and generic SQL. Next year we will deal mostly with PHP / Java. What, in your opinion, are the most important aspects of web development in contrast and rel...

service for seeing what a site looks like in IE7?

Are there any good services that you can use during development to try out how your site renders in different browsers? We develop on macs. I'd like to be able to pay $20 a month or something like that and be able to VNC in and test my site in IE6, IE7, Opera, etc without having to keep a windows box around. ...

how does Stack Overflow show interactive character limits?

How does Stack Overflow show interactive character limits? Like when editing comments, it shows you how many characters you have left, as well as warning if it is too few. I'd like that exact functionality in my Ruby on Rails... But not sure how to do it? ...

How to switch from Web Designer to Front End Developer/ Web Developer?

I want to Switch from Web Designer to Front End Developer or web developer PHP, which skill should I get , Is it Easy to switch from Designer to Developer. I have two years Exp. in Web Designing. Please suggest. Or should i stick to the Designing what is the Next BIG thing for Designer after DIV layout. My Current Roles Conversion PSD...

What is the Microsoft Enterprise Application Blocks relationship to the ASP.NET provider model?

What is the Microsoft Enterprise Application Blocks relationship to the ASP.NET provider model? (if any) ...

Is Code Complete suitable for Web Developers?

It seems everywhere I go, I am bombarded with mentions of Steve McConnell's Code Complete book, my question is this book relevant for Web Developers (PHP Developers) and not just software engineers etc? ...

Using rails or ASP.NET for website on Windows

I need to create a site that interact with some windows applications. Currently this is done through direct calls so I would like these to run on the webserver. This means that the site will have to run on a Windows based system. I have been doing some ruby lately and am very keen on using rails for the site, but have at the same time s...

Setting IE "Optical Zoom" feature using Javascript/CSS

The site I'm maintaining has been designed pretty rigidly using pixels for font sizes, dimensions, absolute positioning etc. Now there is a feature request to add font resizing by users. While I know that is impossible without redesigning the site from the ground up using relative dimensions, I discovered that the site plays pretty nice...

How to perform a search on 4 basic criteria?

I'm developing an application to perform searching on the basis of 4 search criteria: Keyword (textbox) Experience (dropdownlist) Location (textbox) Functional area (dropdownlist) There is no mandatory field, so how to perform it? ...

HTML site development: div's vs ul's for navigation and menus

I'm working on developing a Web 2.0 site, and I've been looking at how sites deal with menus and nav-bars. Many sites (like twitter) use UL's whereas sites such as stackoverflow use div's that are ID's containing links. Is there an advantage to not using UL's other than it eliminates some IE bugs? is there an advantage to using UL's? ...

Multi culture web sites

How can I create a website using Tamil Font instead of English? ...

IE6 forms: focus disabled on input fields? (Multiple IEs after IE8)

I recently installed IE8, and found quirks using the old copies of IE I have for testing sites with. After reinstalling the "Multiple IEs" I use, I find that now I cannot focus on input fields, either with the keyboard or mouse. I've found that other people have experienced this behavior, but not a solution for it. Has anyone here got a...

How can I verify that my web site responds with correct HTTP status codes?

I want to verify that my custom-made error pages return the correct HTTP status codes. 200 OK 301 Moved Permanently 401 Unauthorized 404 Not Found 500 Internal Server Error etc. How do I make my web browser show me the code? ...

Migrating Delphi App to Java or to Web App

We want to migrate UI rich application from delphi to java or Web Application. Reason is that we want application to be portable on all Operating Systems. Current Components and Modules of Application in Delphi : In Delphi we are utilizing TWebBrowser component to display HTML content We are playing mp3 that is extracted from FileSt...