Questions tagged [web-development]
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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PHP best practice in return values
For PHP, best practices, I have read somewhere that if you assign your data to a variable it takes almost no memory or resource.
So let's say I have this function that return a count.
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What are the downsides of leaving automation tags in production code?
I've been setting up debug tags for automated testing of a GWT-based web application. This involves turning on custom debug id tags/attributes for elements in the source of the app. It's a non-trivial ...
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Best way to protect website application code
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I have a web application that I host on my own server. I have clients who use the application as is, but some have asked if they can host the application on their own server. This enables ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a subdomain for each user account?
I notice two types of design used in web applications, some with a particular subdomain for users contents, and some with same URL structure for all the accounts.
Ex: unique.domain.com and ...
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Mobile Compatibility: traditional website look vs native application ?
I have a question related to mobile compatible websites, I have seen two type of websites
One in which they adopt traditional website look and adjust website according to mobile screen, if they have ...
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Store image as logic file (in db by using binary format) or physical file (in the server) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
what are the best tips for storing images in a database?
In those study cases of image storage,
An image that change only once in a while, if it changes at all (like an ...
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Organizing ASP.Net Single Page Application with Nancy
As a personal project, I'm creating a single page, asp.net web application using Nancy to provide RESTful services to the single page. Due to the complexity of the single page, particularly the ...
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What is the best practice for website design and markup now that mobile browsers are common?
Back in 2008, smartphones were a small market and it was commonplace for sites to be designed for a fixed width - say, 900px or 960px - with the page centered if the browser window was larger. Many ...
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How is the DOM language independent?
Quoting from Wikipedia
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML and XML documents.
and ...
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How does Google plus page loading work
On Google plus, when I click on a Google plus profile or any Google plus link the page gets redirected to that link without a full page load but the URL changed and a record added to browser history.
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Using which technique does facebook and pininterest show images?
If anybody has ever noticed that when you open a image in Facebook something like this happens:-
suppose you are at your homepage on Facebook:-
the URL is
https://www.facebook.com/
now if you open a ...
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Looking for enterprise web application design inspiration [closed]
I've checked many websites to be inspired about what the look and feel of a serious enterprise web-application should look like. But the whole I saw were designed for being used by single users and ...
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How do web-developers do web-design when freelancing? [closed]
So I got my first job recently as junior web-developer.
My company creates small/medium sites for wide variety of customers: autobusiness companies, weddign agencies, some sauna websites, etcetc, hope ...
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Custom vs. browser-native scrollbars
Including customizable, JavaScript-based scrollbars (and scrolling functionality in general, i.e. bind the control to the mouse scroll wheel) in your webapp can be a great temptation.
However all ...
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Good at Backend, but bad at front end
I want to start web development, I have been learning php.
I have experience in Java, Python, and C++
This experience has made me good at the back end side of web development.
But I am terrible at ...
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Is it worth moving from Microsoft tech to Linux, NodeJS & other open source frameworks to save money for a start-up? [closed]
I am currently getting involved in a startup, I am the only developer involved at the moment, and the other guys are leaving all the tech decisions up to me at the moment.
For my day job I work at a ...
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Best way to use GIT to maintain web application template
I am a sole developer and I have a web application template that I have created in Visual Studio. I am using GIT for source control, but only on my development machine. Presently I have a master and I ...
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Why should I use a web framework's template language over python's templating options?
I'm coming from a python CGI background and was wanting to move into something more contemporary and think I have decided upon web.py as the framework I would like to use. In regards to templating, ...
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How to organize my site's file system properly?
Doing some reading on Stack Overflow, I've found a lot of information suggesting that proper organization of a file system is crucial to a well-written web app. One of the key pieces of evidence is ...
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How to handle monetary values in PHP and MySql?
I've inherited a huge pile of legacy code written in PHP on top of a MySQL database. The thing I noticed is that the application uses doubles for storage and manipulation of data.
Now I came across ...
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Why Firefox caching work will reset in version 3 but version 16 don't?
I am developing a web application and have the app deployed into Tomcat server. Tested on IE and Firefox and are working fine. Meaning when I close the browser and reopen the app, the data will be ...
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Is time tracking required for web based/service industries? [closed]
I work in the web development industry and we implement a time tracking system to log our time (Project/time/comment). In the beginning of a project, we create a contract, and decide upon a price ...
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What should I aware of , when preparing a document of website for later maintenance use? [closed]
The development team has finished a website and my duty is to prepare a document so that other programmers can maintain the website with ease.
I have no experience in this and would like to ask what ...
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Is it my responsibility to code for errors on a completely separate website and domain when redirecting or doing a single sign on? [closed]
If my application is responsible for redirecting/doing a single sign on to a destination managed by a third party, in general, where should I draw the line for error handling during this process? If ...
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Which web framework to use under Backbonejs? [closed]
For a previous project, I was using Backbonejs alongside Django, but I found out that I didn't use many features from Django. So, I am looking for a lighter framework to use underneath a Backbonejs ...
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Consultant in a firm that doesn't understand the tech! [closed]
I got the job as a Consultant in a firm that has 3 other programmers. My job is to rewrite all the old system in Java, Spring etc but the staff programmers only know perl and the manager does not know ...
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How does a browser determine that a script has run for too long? [closed]
How does a browser determine that a script has run for too long ? Is it actually configurable through some advanced settings ?
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Why don't we use browser detection and platform-specific CSS?
Nowadays, the common phenomena is to develop a website for a browser and then corresponding apps for Android phones, iPhone, tablets and so on.
Since all the platforms come with a browser, why aren'...
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GIS-based data visualization and maintenance tool
Background
Looking to leverage an existing GIS system for exploring organizational data.
Architecture
The following figure represents a high-level overview of the system's desired features:
The ...
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Thin client Web browser?
Many times i have heard people saying that a particular hardware to be running a thin client web browser. But from the definition of "thin-client", doesnt all browser qualify as a thin-client? as all ...
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Is it possible to build a single game to run in Facebook & Google+?
I was asked by my customer to build a Facebook game. The game would be something similar to Mafiawars.com where the game is hosted on a server and run through a frame on Facebook.
The thing is after ...
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How can I improve my skills while working on actual projects, in the absence of more experienced developers? [closed]
I'm the lead developer at a small company, working with C# and ASP.Net. Our team is small, 2-3 people, without much experience in development and design. I don't have the opportunity to learn from ...
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What are the PHP web server architecture components and the purpose of each one of them?
Given below is an image of a basic PHP web server architecture:
Would someone please explain the several components available and how they interact?
I'm more concerned of how the PHP Core operates ...
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What kind of image should be used in a web page? [closed]
I have a site that will have lots of images of large size. What is the best format that I should choose for displaying these images?
I need the website to load fast. I am jumbled with different ...
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How can I get non-programmer colleagues on board with bespoke software rather than Dynamics CRM + Sharepoint?
I am working with a company which designs and builds one-off machines. They have been 'dabbling' with hosted Dynamics CRM and Sharepoint (on different servers!) in an attempt to centralise their data ...
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Client-Side V.S. Server-Side Searching?
I am currently helping to design a web site and application in HTML. We would like the user to be able to search the site/app for desired content via a search bar. We would also like to include an ...
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Free cloud web service development [closed]
I am looking for a free (as in beer) combination of services, for learning "cloud SW development" and very small scale private use (say, a private streamlined web shopping&todo list with simple ...
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In what order do people build websites? [closed]
For a website, you need to have an idea, you need to have a design and you need to have data, events and output, right? Whether it be a blog, web app, Q&A site, search engine...
Anyway, that is ...
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Which would be the best platform to develop websites to be used with very slow connections without sacrificing too much the design? [closed]
How can we give dial-up users in some remote places or less developed countries, a good experience while using dynamic websites.
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Tool to identify (and remove) unnecessary website files? [closed]
Inevitably I'll stop using an antiquated css, script, or image file. Especially when a separate designer is tinkering with things and testing out a few versions of images. Before I build one myself, ...
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reading parameters and files on browser, looking how to execute on server
I have a site done in Rails, which uses javascript to load files and generate forms for the user to input certain information. Those files and parameters are then to be used in a fortran code on the ...
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Why are Java servers so scarce and costly? [closed]
I think "why PHP over Java" has been already discussed in other questions, the question I have is:
What makes LAMP/WAMP stacks so cheap and abundant vs a Glassfish one? What are the prime factors ...
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Building a website, want to use java [closed]
I'd like to make a simple-ish website that is essentially a small game. Key strokes are to be processed and sent to a server (already acquired and should support SQL and JSP, I believe) which then ...
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In PHP, how do you code with scalability in mind?
I know this may be a general question, but what exactly goes into scaling for all the users you will encounter, even if not in the next few months? I did some research and most of what is done is ...
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The C++ web stack, is there one?
Java would be jsps and servlets (or a framework such as Spring) running on the JVM and tomcat (or glassfish etc).
C# would be asp and C# running on dot.net framework and IIS ? (I have no experience ...
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Taking a Projects Development to the Next Level [closed]
I have been looking for some advice for a while on how to handle a project I am working on, but to no avail. I am pretty much on my fourth iteration of improving an "application" I am working on; the ...
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Making simple forms in web applications [closed]
How do you work with forms in your web applications?
I am not talking about RESTful applications, I don't want to build heavy front-end using frameworks like Backbone.
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What is the proper way to create a cross-fade effect?
When creating an image slider, using a cross fade is one of more popular effects. Various sliders use differing techniques to create such an effect. Major techniques I've found so far are:
Method 1: ...
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Flexible cloud file storage for a web.py app?
I'm creating a web app using web.py (although I may later rewrite it for Tornado) which involves a lot of file manipulation. One example, the app will have a git-style 'commit' operation, in which ...
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Should I implement slugs with my already fairly long URLs? [closed]
I'm considering implementing slugs in my blog. My blog uses MongoDB. One of the side-effects of using MongoDB is that it uses relatively long hex string IDs.
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before: http://lastyearswishes....