Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the World Wide Web or an intranet.

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Deploy PHP project without giving away the source code?

I am working on developing range of web based software solutions. But the problem is that for some clients we need to deploy the applications in their local intranet. In such a situation I have to ...
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Beginner webdeveloper. How to make development right?

I work for a company that has developed its own PHP framework. From my perspective, it seems quite hard and tiresome to develop and maintain websites in this framework. Let me give an example. It is ...
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JSON vs Foreign Keys

I'm developing an enterprise website, and I have to define some sections like this: I have many sections and each section have many (or one) sub-pages. The number of sub-pages vary per section. ...
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Important Questions to ask Client at Briefing (Web Development) [closed]

I am just moving into freelancing (my primary sector will be web design / web development). I've got a few projects for friends as well as one or two 'professional' projects in the pipeline. I would ...
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The Request/Response Cycle

When User A decides he want to pay a visit to http://example.com/ it all begins with a Request. A short moment later he is given a Response. In this cycle Request-Response a lot is going on, in ...
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How to create different paths for users to take through the pages in my site?

I have a website where users are directed to go through a sequence of pages to perform a sequence of work tasks (transcribe a paragraph, answer a survey, interact with another user, etc). For short, ...
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Mass Emails, Preventing Blacklisting [closed]

We have a membership site with user-generated content. We want to do a better job of keeping in touch with our members by sending them a daily or weekly (their choice) email that shows them content ...
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Is it Wise to disconnect the ui layer from the backend in mobile web apps? [closed]

What's the future when it comes to mobile web development? I mean, traditionally, in the java world, we make use of Java EE technologies such as Spring, Hibernate and some MVC framework like Spring ...
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Need suggestions for web page with blueprint-based room content display for a college campus [closed]

StackOverflow! Rather than an specific error or issue, I am actually looking to draw on your collective knowledge for suggestions for a solution I need to implement for our campus IT website. I have ...
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Fake Sample Data: Opensource avatar images of real people? [closed]

When testing and creating prototypes, I'll often use faker to populate my database with fake data that looks real. It can generate real-looking first and last names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. ...
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Where should authentication be handled, in the server's code, or in the application's server-side code?

I'm developing a simple web application in node.js. Users can log in from any page in the application, so I handle authentication in the server's code and logic, and the application's server-side ...
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Order collisions in ecommerce

Suppose I have a web app where sellers add their products and set them as available for sale. Then I show a list of products in my mobile app, where I get products via my REST API. My problem: suppose ...
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Developing website that will have mobile app in future should be in PHP or JSP? [closed]

I am developing a web solution that I ultimately want to be available on each mobile platform as mobile app (not a mobile website at all). I am in great confusion to choose between PHP or JSP to ...
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How to be robust against webservice downtime caused by third parties

I'm using iPage as my cloud based server provider. I haven't had any problems with them yet. They hold the scripts for my RESTful services for the mobile app I'm developing. My problem however is ...
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Looking for a job straight out of college [closed]

I have a concern with something that college has not prepared me for. I am two semesters away from graduating as a Software Engineer and I want to land a job in my field of study. I run a small web ...
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Why does my web site load fast locally and at home but slowly for our customer? [closed]

I'm having a frustrating problem that I need some advice with. I've written a ASP.Net web forms application that retrieves its data through a wcf web service. When I run it locally either on my ...
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Web Programming Cross Browser Frustrations Normal? [duplicate]

So I'm a relatively junior programmer, been doing it for a couple years now and have been recently working on a redo of the company's website, and have ran into some frustrations and was just ...
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How to implement multi-theme PHP application

I am developing an application which will handle many virtual stores and I would like to have many themes that the user could choose anytime. I would to know what's the main ideia to implement it. I ...
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Which language would be more beneficial to learn for a PHP developer? [closed]

I know PHP and I want to impress myself by learning another language. I'm nowhere near an expert in PHP, but when I started to learn Laravel framework, I was like, "Wow, is this PHP? How cool is ...
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which java web framework is similar to php codeigniter framework [closed]

Would you please let me know a good java web framework for a E-Commerce website, right now the existing php website is based on codeigniter framework and I am planing to convert this php project to ...
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In this block when static path is pass then download process done but when path is pass through variable then download process is stop.. [closed]

DECLARE V_BFILE BFILE; V_BLOB BLOB; V_LEN NUMBER; V_CHECK NUMBER; path varchar2(1000); path1 varchar2(1000); v_file_name varchar2(100):='New ...
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Files not Caching [migrated]

We store our images on S3 and our performance has been incredibly slow. This morning we turned on CloudFront in hopes that our performance would increase. When I analyze our performance with ...
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What tools are you using to improve your professional effectiveness? [closed]

I have just finished a very nasty Web (JQuery/PHP) project where absolutely all went wrong: the client was constantly changing the requirements, and as a result there was a constant lack of time which ...
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Project suggestions for a beginner [closed]

I'm a rather beginner in Python and looking for project ideas. I don't want to reinvent the wheel and I just can't think of any ideas for a project which hasn't been implemented before. Also I want to ...
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Output data as a Microsoft Project File [closed]

I'm currently developing a project management web application. One of the requirements that needs to be satisfied is exporting a project's data (Name, Activities, Deadlines and so forth) as a ...
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how safe/sane is it to use git for deployment on my webapp production server?

I started with sftp, then switched to WebDAV and I'm currently using rsync through ssh to deploy any updates/upgrades from my development server into my production server. I'm still not very happy ...
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Crowdfunded feature request system

I develop a free webapp and am thinking of taking some of the most popular and time consuming feature requests and turning them into mini, crowdfunded projects. I would post those on the site and ...
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Developing an online IDE [closed]

Firstly, I am doing this for a large project, and it is 100% necessary for it. I am an experienced programmer with strong knowledge of Python, C, Ruby, Javascript, JQuery, HTML/CSS (but I have no ...
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Can you give me any book recommendations for knockout and backbone JavaScript libraries? [closed]

Can anyone recommend a great intro book for knockout.js and also backbone.js? And then also an advanced book for both? Thanks! If this isn't the place to ask this, please point me in the right ...
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How to maintain standard quality of images uploaded by many users?

We're developing a site where individuals (store owners) will be able to take pictures and upload to the site. Our biggest concern is the variance in quality of pictures across the site. The options ...
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Saving multiple copies of a single image at different sizes

I'm building a file storage programme that will also display images in photo galleries to users who upload them. I was wondering if anybody could help me out. My plan was if an image was wider than ...
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So I'm a developing a workflow with vagrant+git…does this make sense?

Relevant Background Details We've got two types of VMs (Utility Boxes & Web Servers) that developers need. We are going to be using git for version control. We have developers who have ...
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Can I demand code quality on a project I've gotten

I have been given a Drupal project from an external web agency and have been trying to becomer wiser on both Drupal and their approach of making a site. With time I've learnt a bit morer about Drupal, ...
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How to make a web app out of my chrome extension? [closed]

I have a Google Chrome extension that creates and stores some data on the client side. This can be installed on a per-user basis and used locally. I want to make a web app out of this. In essence, I ...
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Cloud storage with a frontend file browser widget [closed]

I'm building a CRM web app, and want to store documents on a per-customer basis. The way I'd do it is to simply create a separate directory for each customer, with their id being the name of the ...
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HTML5 PhoneGap Mobile development? [closed]

I want some suggestions about the project concepts/ideas on HTML5 PhoneGap mobile app development. I want to develop some app that can be a learning curve to get to know about these technologies. Any ...
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Logging failed login attempts exposes passwords

I started logging failed logins attempts on my website with a message like Failed login attempt by qntmfred I've noticed some of these logs look like Failed login attempt by qntmfredmypassword I'm ...
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How to define requirements for mobile web applications?

A client who currently owns a huge client base has asked us for a mobile web application development, that should run on both phones and tablets for the Android and iOS platforms. The expected ...
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Dilemma over choice of Android and Web development [closed]

This is more of career related question, and i cant find any other more relevant stack exchange to post this question, so kindly do not vote down if you find this impertinent. I have my summer ...
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become a Magento developer [closed]

This website gives great information about getting a certified Magento developer: http://www.magentocommerce.com/certification/ There are some examples etc. But I can't find any 'learning' material. ...
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I want to build a website similar to escrow.com [closed]

I would like to know if it is possible to build a website similar to escrow.com however it will specific for my country only. The idea is that if a person A wants to sell and person b wants to buy. ...
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Saving Multiple Sizes of Images

We have lots of user-generated images on our site. When users upload their images, we only store the original. However, depending on the page, we show different sizes of those images (small, medium, ...
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How to deal with management staff (company owner) that downplays the impact of specs changes?

I work in a small web development company (3 programmers) for a while. During the last year the company had hard times (less projects) and a few co-workers were fired, including our Production ...
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Should website frontends be rendered in client-side or server-side?

I've been talking to a colleague that comes from AS3 to the HTML world. He has created a small website (there are apparently no dynamic contents) following the no-flash rules for his very first time, ...
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Day-to-Day Differences between Software Engineering and Web Developer Positions [duplicate]

I am hoping to transition into the IT/development field and am expecting to start classes this summer. I come from a teaching background, but have also done freelance web development as a hobby for a ...
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Cycle through all CSS values in Chrome dev tools

In Chrome's dev tools, add a new CSS property to an element. Add vertical-align as the property. Press tab to start typing the value. It's at this stage that I really wish I could see a list of all ...
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Number of sites to build before trying to become a web developer? [closed]

Someone has asked me this question and I couldn't answer as I am not on the web part of development so I'm asking here. If one has just finished college and is trying to break through into web ...
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Are there any statically-typed Web scripting languages?

There seems to be two major ways to set up a web server backend. You can use a LAMP stack, with the server-side code in something like PHP or Python (or Ruby or JavaScript, which don't start with a ...
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Is it reasonable to use Javascript MVC Frameworks for closed source paid web applications?

I am wondering if it is reasonable to write closed source, paid web apps in Javascript (JS MVC Frameworks like AngularJS, Backbone, Knockout, ...)? I'm concerned because in this type of frameworks you ...
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Manage version control with a central development server (LAMP)

I'm working in a small team with up to 5 (web)developers. Because our team is growing frequently and we ran into problems with multiple people working on the same code we decided to set up a VCS. ...

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