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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No programmer will build my semi-adult website. Why?
I've been looking for get this website done for a long time.
I thought with a well organized write-up of what I wanted, as well as having clear examples done in photoshop of faux pages to give an ...
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Simple, Free, Local DNS Server for Developers? [closed]
Most of us web developers have used our hosts files to so that a domain resolves to localhost (or some other machine) for testing/development purposes. Usually, that's good enough.
One shortcoming ...
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How to make a master-detail database Web site as fast as making the same with Delphi? [closed]
I hope that this question gets clear to everyone.
What I find great about Delphi is that with RAD (rapid application development) we can pick components and put them directly to the form and connect ...
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Compiling multiple languages and Javascript
I have read numerous times that programming languages when making games or large software often use multiple languages / scripts together. I'm wondering how that works. How do they compile it? How ...
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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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Why do some websites include the “page name” in the URL?
I'm not a web programmer at all so I really have no idea:
You'll notice that websites like Stack Exchange have links like this:
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What is the relationship between a framework like RoR and a database?
I'm a front end developer...I've never done ANY backend, although I did take a course in databases once. (I have a comp sci degree; I'm a competent programmer, I just haven't done any backend web ...
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How to balance Front End and Back End coding skill [closed]
This is a question specifically for web applications developers.
In recent years I spent most of my time on SaaS products, which leads you dig deep into more back-end stuff, like how to use less ...
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Why isn't Java being used for web multimedia applications?
I've been focusing on multimedia applications and I've noticed that most applications don't use Java in the back end. Instead, I see solutions with PHP/ROR/Python and Flash/Silverlight without any ...
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Connecting with OAuth, dealing with logout and browser sessions
I work on a open-source web application (Moodle) which connects to a number of external services such as Google Drive, Dropbox etc. to allow users to exchange files with these services.
Primarily we ...
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Developed a web site - How to explain in an interview [closed]
I developed a e-commerce site for a major company. I did not create some kind of a document to show how the data flows between pages.
I used: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ExpressionEngine, plugins ...
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Why does an HTML <a> tag inside a section/div produce a duplicate outside of the section/div? [migrated]
I've been trying to make a scroller for a website with some arrows on the side, but the arrows are going crazy and duplicating themselves in following sections. I've simplified the problem to the ...
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Which asp.net technology fits this situation best?
I think I can count WebAPI out, but WebForms, WebPages, and MVC are all possibilities.
I want to create an asp.net web site that is primarily static content and links to other sites. The only ...
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webpage development for embedded systems [closed]
I have to create webpages for an embedded system running on linux.(say for example router, It will have its configuration page, log page etc).
The Linux version that i have supports "lighttpd" server ...
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Which Open Source License is right for my project?
I'm developing a suite of software tools that I need help with which is why I want to release my software open-source. People should be able to use and modify my code as they please while contributing ...
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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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User session timeout handling in SaaS apps - discussing several approaches
I know this has a great chance of being marked as duplicate, but couldn't find exactly what I'm looking for
This is a common problem and I'm sure it has some well defined best practice solution
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Which HTTP status codes are really OK?
I am writing an application to report to the user(devs) when their website fails. And what I mean by fails which is unfunctional or needs to report the problem to devs. I do understand that status ...
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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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What would be the best Programming language for web applications so that code can compile and ship as a package [closed]
I want to create a web application and ship it to the clients as a package which would contain an embedded webserver, an embedded db and the compiled code.
I want the s/w to be very fast and use less ...
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Undergrad internship career path [closed]
I am a CS student currently searching internship positions that are important to my future career. I am passionate about web design and development and it is really what I think my niche is in the ...
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CSS Classes for semantics vs. styles in general cases
The W3C spec on the class attribute says
There are no additional restrictions on the tokens authors can use in the class attribute, but authors are encouraged to use values that describe the ...
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Difference between ISAPI and a web service [closed]
I have developed a web application with ASP.NET 2.0 , using ISAPI as the API to interface with the back-end database service and send data to the ASP page. This is overview in present
Web Site (asp ...
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How safe are hidden AJAX requests that fake performance?
What is a hidden AJAX request?
I've noticed an increase in the usage of hidden AJAX requests designed to make a user's action appear to happen immediately. I'll refer to this type of AJAX request as ...
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Why should we use externalized property files for an application?
I am currently working on a rails project and have a requirement where I want to be able to map a country name's initial letters to its ISD code. eg: IND => 91, USA => 1, etc.
The broader question ...
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POST/Redirect/GET with invalid form submission?
In the field of web development, is it good practice to do a POST/Redirect/GET when fields in a form submission are invalid, as well?
Typically, no sensitive transaction would have taken place, in ...
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Formal term to web-ify a piece of existing software or program or a module?
There is a software we run as a windows service. Its currently not designed to take a huge load. So we kind of need this service to be hosted over http so that multiple clients can make use of it. Its ...
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Are “conditional” caching policies ever actually useful?
I'm designing an abstraction over ASP.Net's built in caching to make it not so horrible to use. One design decision I'm having to look at is if I should restrict people to using just one cache policy ...
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Do I really want a dynamic Enum, or something else? Better caching? A Struct?
This question is asked on SO and this site often it looks like. "How do I do a dynamic enum?" Answers range from you shouldn't to possible compile time solutions. Now my question is do I want a ...
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What is “the right way” to do search on a website?
I'm talking the kind of search that auto-suggests your query as you type, the way Google does, the way Wikipedia does, the way Stack Exchange suggests other questions as you type the title, etc. And ...
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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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Tutorial dependency — how to do I learn to code by myself?
Here's the thing: I have been learning to code in jQuery (not raw JS) and PHP for about 3 months now. During this time, I have learned a lot of different things, discovered how a web application is ...
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Why are custom PDF download options preferred over ctrl+p?
Why do I, as a developer, have to go through so much trouble developing PDF download options for my clients when everyone in the world can simply hit Ctrl+P and life is good?
The current issue I'm ...
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Is it better to create a stored procedure or entities to get to the data I need?
I just jumped into a new project with a new company using Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC 4. I am no expert on Entity Framework, but I think I have a decent grasp of how to use it.
From what I can ...
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JavaScript refactoring tool [closed]
I'm on the process of refactoring a large JavaScript application, which has a lot of repeated functions with 2 or 3 different parameters, a lot of global variables used in several modules, etc.
Which ...
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Newbie ASP.NET developer being forced into MVC4 with WebForms
I recently got hired on as a new ASP.NET developer (C# code behind). When I arrived, I was told that they were moving to MVC 4, and so I bought two books on that. However, the other day I learned ...
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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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Is the use of security conditionals in a view a violation of MVC?
Often what's displayed to a user (e.g. on a web page) will be based partly on security checks. I usually consider user-level / ACL security to be part of the business logic of a system. If a view ...
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what are the main differences between a web server and application server? [closed]
I am new to web development and just started exploring the things. I read about how web page is processed and sent to client by a web server but I got confused with application server. what is the ...
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serving static or dynamic web-content based on user group
I need help understanding a problem I have, and that others surely have had as well.
I'm working on a web-application that allows users to interface with a database. The application in general has ...
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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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Advice: Developing two projects where one is an extension of the other
The Two Projects
I work at a pretty small software company, and I'm currently in a situation where I'm at the end of development for "Project A", about to start development for "Project B". Project B ...
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lightweight document indexing to handle less than 250k potential records
Recently I've found myself chafing at the limitations of document indexing engines. I was developing a small website that needed some fairly robust searching capabilities but due to their hardware ...
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Testing UI for azure web app on iPad
I am working on debugging my mobile application. There is a specific requirement/issue that I am having related to a drag and drop touch interface on an ipad. I am at the trial and error phase of ...
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Custom error handling
I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle custom errors in my application.
Option 1:
if(expr) {
} else {
$_SESSION['error'] = "Some message describing the error";
}
Option 2:
if(expr) {
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Which is better: to include HTML inside PHP code or outside it?
Look at this:
<?php
echo "Hello World";
?>
<br />
<?php
echo "Welcome";
?>
And now look at this:
<?php
echo "Hello World";
echo "<br />";
echo "Welcome";
?>
Which ...
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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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Web App architectural design, help me stop buying more servers to scale up! [closed]
Background: I am part of a small dev team, I am not the lead\senior developer. The lead developer is very knowledgable and I trust his decision making but I am starting to wonder if we could improve.
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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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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.
public ...
