The more web projects that I do, the more I realize that I'm not nearly as fast at trying to design how a website or web application will look and feel as I am getting the functional areas up and running. My question is, what are the best locations and/or free website templates that can be used by companies royalty free? I know that ...
Hey everyone, I'm using Firebug 1.3.3 with Firefox 3.0.10, and I wanted to know if it was possible to enable the Console, Script, and Net consoles all the time. It used to be such that it was always on. Now, if its disabled I have to manually turn on each tool and send requests again to see whats going on. Is there any way to do this...
Given that both Ruby on Rails (RoR) and Grails can run on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), which language and framework enables equally competent and experienced developers to be more productive and roughly by what percentage? (i.e., deliver more business functionaity for the same amount of effort) I know that Grails is easier for a Java...
The main reason I'd like to use j2me is that one of its main advantages is that it can access the phone's resources through its various APIs. However, due to newer phones having web browsers like Safari, Opera, and Windows IE, it would be advantageous to build a web application so a user wouldn't have to download some software onto their...
What is the best practice/methodology for creating a web page that is browser compatible and purely in CSS, except for of course the content. I notice that big name websites like yahoo.com use CSS exclusively for layout, which renders the content pretty well in hand held devices. Being that I have an opportunity to redesign the external ...
I wrote a VB.NET windows service and I'd like to know if there is some library or something that will provide me with a very simple mini web server. If my service is running, I'd just like to be able to type, in my browser: http://localhost:1234 And have a status page popup. It will only be one single page and very simple html. Anyone ...
I am a capable programmer and I write software for a living. I am taking up a new project to build a website that has a bunch of forms that perform CRUD operations on a database and some multimedia. I am very familiar with PHP and Python and have written some websites in them. I have written some rake tasks and a few ruby scripts that ru...
One solution would be to add a QueryString variable to the url that is a random guid, but that seems a little messy. Is there a setting somewhere that will prevent the browser from displaying a cached version of a page? ...
I have seen the abbreviation WS-*, but I have not been able to figure out what this means, and why is it important? ...
I have a name table with (id,first_name,middle_name,last_name,sex) and an email table with (id_fk,email_add) Infact I will be having similar tables of the second kind, like a phone table (id_fk,phone_no), where id_fk is the foreign key referring to the id in the name table. Is it required or rather is there a good reason to have a prim...
Where do we start using Unit testing? I have some doubts about where to start using Unit testing. I am doing unit testing with Junit in RAD. And I am doing it after all code is ready to deploy or may be after deployment. I am confused why we are doing unit testing after code is almost ready to deploy. My question is when we should start ...
I am evaluating Rich Internet application solutions to use in next project. I have heard of following solutions - Adobe Flex extJS Jboss Richfaces IceFaces Oracle ADF JavaFX Silverlight GWT I want to know if there are more solutions available. I would appreciate if you can provide any valuable feedback on the above solutions. ...
Hi all, I am using a definition list for some elements on the page and need them to display inline, e.g.: they normally look like: <def term> <def desc> <def desc> and I need them to look like (note the multiple DD's): <def term> <def desc> <def desc> <def term> <def desc> <def desc> <def term> <def desc> <def desc>...
I am a .NET / C++ programmer switching to Java. I had previous exposure to Java 10+ years ago in university. What would be the typical things to be learned in order to be able to program web applications in Java? I can think of: JSP/Servlets Eclipse EJB What else do people use these days? The idea would be to be able to land on a Jav...
Background We need to develop a specialised CMS (internal use only) to support a technical writing team producing specialised long-form content for web (i.e. text with pictures, interactive features). To protect the writers from the nitty-gritty of web development (and to improve output consistency) we'd like to augment a regular WSIWYG...
I am looking into different ways to handle updating an ASP.NET application across many different clients, and looking for suggestions from your previous experience. We need the client apps to check if they have any available updates. A way to Auto update (If possible, something similar to chromes but for webapp). Some way to check tha...
Duplicate: How would I implement StackOverflow's hovering dialogs? I'm trying to create an error message, that is being displayed, so far here's a crude attempt, the message displays fine, however the click doesn't work.. function message(somemessage){ $(document).ready(function(){ $('<div class="error">' + somemess...
It seems that there is no Google Alerts API. Firstly, How would you get Google Alerts information into a database other than to parse the text of the email message that Google sends you? If you must parse text, how would you go about parsing out the relevant pieces of the email message? ...
Am in the process of building an enterprise web application and i know its gonna be very complex especially the workflow and navigation process. I intend to use django as my framework and mysql as the backend database. Am looking at an application with over 300 tables!!! (its an app i had already done as a desktop application and am pla...
I have created a CSS class as follows: div.ycontent .ppclisting { background-color:#cccccc; } div.ycontent .ppclisting:hover { background-color:#FFE5DF; } I have applied the above style in one of my page, which is working quite fine in Firefox, IE 7.0+ and in other latest browsers. But When I am applying the same style in another page...