Web applications are applications that are accessed over the "web", which can mean the Internet, or an internal network (an intranet).

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How to make my web app restful

I have a web application which I want to make RESTful. Here is the structure of the app: Top level has a bunch of search screens, they are basically tabs which search different parts of database ...
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How should my web application handle common errors such as incorrect password, session timeout, etc.?

How should my web application handle common errors such as incorrect password, session timeout, etc.? I have a class called Hotmail that contains various method such as login, logout etc. To ...
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Batch Download from website [closed]

How to automatically download all articles/series of articles (i.e. within range 5490 to 5500, http://www.guidingtech.com/5493, http://www.guidingtech.com/5494 in case where URL listing is ...
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How are programming teaching websites built? [duplicate]

For those that don't know I'm referring to codeacademy or codeschool type of websites, where the user inputs ruby/python/whateverlanguage, and gets back the result evaluated. Is the code input ...
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How to choose between lightweight or heavyweight framework for web application

In my current role as a software developer in a Java/Spring/Hibernate/JSF shop, I am sometimes asked to develop large-scale web apps with many interfacing systems and/or large databases as well as ...
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What makes for a good workflow for a front-end development team? [closed]

We are building a complicated web application's front-end. I want to know what makes for a good workflow for my team. Generally I know the basic workflow, but I want to know in details how we should ...
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A Web application as a REST API client: how to handle resource identifiers

Several concepts related to REST conflict in my head when I try implementing it. I have a REST-ful back-end API system that holds the business logic, and a web application that provides the UI. From ...
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Why are websites and web applications (apps) not open sourced? [closed]

I've noticed that many many applications and libraries have become available under a "Free Software" license (like GNU GPL). However, I've also noticed that many companies and organizations that ...
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In-house SMS (using a SIM card) receiving and sending?

My needs are very simple but I don't know the terms I should be Googling for: I need to occasionally send a SMS to a machine and that machine is going to answer with another SMS to the number that did ...
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Designing a Website GUI using a new CMS [closed]

I'm trying to write a concept of a new Website CMS which allows the user to design the site structures as he wishes it. Now, the basic part is about Squares (Areas) which the user can place wherever ...
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travel website with hotel registration and their data integration [closed]

If in a travel website you allow hotels to register their profiles, then how to display their latest room availability and corresponding price to the user while he goes through booking? Is there a ...
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Does the lack of states on HTTP make the protocol unfit for modern applications? [closed]

I changed from PHP to ASP.NET, now I’m working with webforms in a somewhat large company. I given some though and research to back my impressions on ASP.NET webforms and I came to the conclusion that ...
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What is a practical level of abstraction in a web application? [closed]

(Originally asked on StackOverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14896121/what-is-a-practical-level-of-abstraction-in-a-web-application) I still consider myself a newcomer to OO programming, ...
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How to make structural theme with Spring MVC?

I want to create structural theme feature for my application, I tryied to use the theme feature of spring mvc but it's used to find a different css, so it only works on CSS based application theme. ...
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UI development suggestion [closed]

I am a back-end developer who till now have either been involved with algorithm development, desktop applications and server side. I have been programming for last 4 years now but never had a chance ...
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Feasibility of continuous delivery with a mixture of development platforms

What are the major obstacles (and potential solutions, if known) for implementing "continuous delivery" software development when an application relies on varied programming languages or modules... ...
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Why to create a strandard desktop application instead a web application? [closed]

Today, tools like javascript, CSS3 and HTML5 are very powerful. I think there is a lot of applications which can be created like a web application, in the cloud. There is a lot of advantages like the ...
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Is it legal for me to use game logos in my application? [closed]

I'm making a web application that will include links to over 500 games. For every game link I'm planning on including the game's logo. I'm planning to either acquire the logos from the games websites ...
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Does this situation call for well specified associations, single table inheritance, or polymorphic association?

I'm building a web-app where users can keep track of who owes whom money. I have users and debts. Given a user I want to be able to find out all the debts to other users, and all the loans to other ...
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Possible with PHP MVC Framework? A better solution to client 'override' of core functionality?

Background / The Problem I need to make a (large) application with a certain set of core functionality, and certain functionality for multiple clients within it. Each client has different ...
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Course selection consultation [closed]

I need an opinion about course selection in my school. I am undecided between two courses and do not know which one i should take. One of the courses is "programming language concepts" and its ...
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CV - How to explain J2EE vs “Servlets & JSP” [closed]

I am having a problem defining what I am currently busy with on my CV: I am very proficient in JSP & Servlets for full size enterprise web applications, these applications run on Tomcat, ...
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Last semester of college: while trying to get first web/mobile developer job [closed]

I am in the last year of my BS in Engineering - Information Technology degree. Some things I have noticed while looking for jobs is that larger older corporations want you to know java or c# for their ...
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How do I capture a bunch of web pages or pdfs found online and store them in a database on my machine? [closed]

I am doing a research project and I need to create a database (initially just on a local machine), of a bunch of web pages and pdfs, probably thousands of them but not likely to be e.g. 100,000, of ...
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Custom templating in a web application

I want to understand the pros and cons in generating dynamic web application controls. The idea is to generate all the controls dynamically based on the database procedure output and populate the ...
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Can I call a script created in php a “web application” [closed]

Can I call a script created in php a "web application"? See the Wikipedia definition, but I'm still not sure.
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What are some good examples of client side JS? [closed]

I've been doing web development for about a year now and I've never really had any education on Javascript best practices. I've tried browsing the javascript files of big sites like Google and Amazon ...
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Recommended Introduction to Web Development for “Blank Slate” [closed]

I'm not completely sure if this is the correct place to ask this question, but I'm the Web Development Supervisor at my workplace and we will be getting a guy that is fresh out of high school to do a ...
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How to structure our Javascript so that it is easily editable, testable, and can make calls to render a view without knowing specifics about the view

I am working on a web app that displays some data and uses javascript. Right now, we are serving up parts of our js (to display certain types of information, ie "Render a View") via our server which ...
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When creating an api should I stick with small functions and many calls, or a few calls and large functions?

I have a rails platform that I maintain. It has a lot of different web applications built on top of it. However now a client is asking for an API so that they can keep users on their site, but take ...
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How do you handle multiple users editing the same piece of data in a webapp?

There's a project I'm working on that is looking to produce a web application that will manage a task list between multiple users. This is a master task list whose task items get distributed by an ...
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How can I create and manage permissions more dynamically?

I want to implement a security system into my web-based Intranet application which allows security administrators to 'fine-tune' exactly what type of access a user/role has to an object. For example, ...
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Python in Big Data?

Can python be efficiently implemented in big data field? To be precise I am building an web app that analyses really big data in medical health care field consisting of medical history and huge ...
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Best Technique to build PDF Reader [closed]

I am developing a website, where a user can browse e-books (in pdf) and read it on my website (something like scribd.com or issuu.com). I am using the Zend framework (PHP), javascript (jquery, ...
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Securely changing system configuration from a web application

I need to write a web application that acts as a configuration interface for some system services. Meaning it will probably change some kind of configuration file and has to restart (linux) system ...
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Designing a Web Application with Two Different Backend Databases [closed]

I'm working on a pretty standard LAMP based web application. The server itself has a standard MySQL database and the application is written in PHP. The kicker is, we also use SQL Server databases ...
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For a front-end application broken down in a MV* manner, should I have models dedicated to UI logic?

I am not talking about simple UI logic like clicking a button directs you to another page, but where one action may result in several different of behavior depending on current application state, and ...
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Acceptance tests for large multi-step online form

I have to extend/fix a large online form written by other developer. There is a lot of code, mixing PHP and JS. It's kind of write-only style of coding and I want to redo it completely, but currently ...
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how to develop a common pool of functions? [closed]

I need to develop an application which runs on the web as well as on mobile platform. I want to make something like a directory where i hold my common functions in respect to web and mobile platform. ...
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Do I have to learn html and javascript to create web applications?

I am an experienced Java programmer, and I want to create a complex web application requiring dynamic pages, drawings, etc (take SO as an example). Do I have to learn javascript/html in order to ...
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Rails-API gem, Is there such thing as an API only application?

I've built a few API's using the complete rails stack. In each project there have been multiple uses for rails core features. Each of the API has had management screens for monitoring usage, managing ...
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Alternative Web model

One of the problems web apps have against native apps, especially on the mobile front, is the constant need to re-download each web page on request. Ultimately, this leads to slower performance. Why ...
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Joomla Secondary Users

Background I have a joomla based application. My customers sign up and they register as a user on the site. My customers (primary customers) then have their own space on the site that they can then ...
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Moving from building internal applications as WPF to ASP NET MVC? [closed]

I have worked on quite a few internal applications for my work and I have always defaulted to using WPF, but I am considering re-writing existing ones into a web app. This is so that anyone in my ...
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Is there a way to check if redistributed code has been altered?

I would like to redistribute my app (PHP) in a way that the user gets the front end (presentation) layer which is using the API on my server through a web service. I want the user to be able to alter ...
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Reuse Business Logic between Web and API

We have a website and two mobile apps that connect through an API. All the platforms do the exactly same things. Right now the structure is the following: Website. It manages models, controllers, ...
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Best way to protect website application code

Background 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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Looking to create website that can have custom GUI and database per user [closed]

I have developed an MS Access database for a company to track data in regards to production of a certain commodity. It has many many tables, forms, reports, etc. These were all done as the user ...
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Why can't WARs share session info?

I have seen several developers looking for a solution for this problem: accessing session information from a different WAR (even when inside the same EAR) - here are some samples: Any way to share ...

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