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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java script date popup is not working in firfox [migrated]
The following is the function for date selection. The code is working in IE but it is not working in Firefox. The problem coming at selecting a day.iam not able to select a day in Firefox.
function ...
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Why should I should url routes to the user in a single page application?
Why a single page application is a desktop client replacement why should I show certain url`s in the url bar of the browser.
Why is mysite.com not enough.
My question to you guys is now:
What are ...
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What is the best way to load balance javascript applications?
I write a lot of javascript applications and in many different circumstances the browser will become unresponsive or give a "slow script" error. Even when following best practices, initializing large ...
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Python web application frontend for equipment diagnostics and interaction
My goal is to have a Python application that runs a web server which hosts the user interface, and based on interactions from a user in their browser, long running tasks get kicked off and through ...
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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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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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General thought process for “How would you build this website/app” interview questions
I've collected a bunch of interview questions like "Describe how you would design a photo album application", "Describe how you would design this particular feature of this particular website" (e.g. ...
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Which technologies to create web interface for scientific instrument?
I am working on software for some scientific instrumentation. An embedded computer running Windows 7 is inside the instrument, which controls various components of the device; cameras, motors, ...
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Atmosphere + Long Polling : No message distribution?
I'm experiencing a strange behavior with Atmosphere + Long Polling.
I'd like to have a broadcaster per user, so I have registered a broadcaster on resource suspension with id : /user/.
I use ...
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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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Create Offline Demo Environment Database Substitute
I would like to know if there is a best practice for creating demo environments that substitutes database interaction into other forms of resource
i.e. creating .json files containing the data that ...
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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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Power of HTML5?
HTML5 is becoming more and more popular everyday. Many great online applications are now being created and described as pure HTML5 apps. (Like Muro)
But I don't understand what is exactly so cool ...
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Good approaches for packaging PHP web applications for Debian
Many PHP web applications follow this model for installation and upgrade:
Un-tar a source tar ball.
Point Apache at the source.
Navigate a web browser to the home page.
Go through several web pages ...
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Converting Java applet to web application
I would like to convert this Java applet into an equivalent web app. This is my first time creating a web app, but I have some programming experience and time, and am willing to teach myself all of ...
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caching on multiple servers
Because we need to keep response times low, we get tons of requests, and we need to basically process ALMOST the same data (which I'll refer to as X) each request (the inputs are different though, so ...
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Converting Java applet to “HTML5”? [closed]
I am a novice programmer, but the most experienced one in my organization.
We have a number of dated online Java applets (with source code) which run various simulations.
My task is to "convert them ...
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How can we avoid having to build yet another CRM system from scratch
We are building an accounting web application. In our database, we store basic data about our customers, like phone number, their login informations, because these things are tied into our web ...
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Which programming languages are used to develop online Image Editing web application? [closed]
I'm looking to develop an online image editing web application, such as Picmonkey or Photoshop Express Editor, but a little less complex.
Which programming languages will best suit what I aim on ...
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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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What is the next step in app development after writing a cool program? [closed]
I've written a couple of programs in python on my computer that work well and I like a lot (keeping track of grades, setting goals and keeping track of progress in the gym, etc.).
I always run into ...
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How to get a Web Application to communicate between users
I am developing a multipalyer web Application for Anti-Chess. It would be hosted on Google App Engine.
I have a few questions:
How do I get two different users who have opened the webapp on their ...
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Application architecture for subscriber based system
I am planning on building a system where users "subscribe" to "records".
Records are updated on a schedule, several times a day.
When records are updated, the user should be notified that these ...
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HTTP Session or Database approach
I am confused a little as what should be my approach, Working on a design of shopping cart and i need to store shopping cart either in session or in database but not sure which approach would be ...
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What does a node.js web application's setup look like on a real production server?
Being new to node js magic world, i'm wondering how does a web application's setup look like on a real production server?
So far all tutorials, create the js file that is started from a console...and ...
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Where to start in developing a game engine as a web app
I have to create a web application, preferably I would host that on Google App Engine. it is a multiplayer game, So it needs to be interactive. I am only familiar with C/C++ coding, and have started ...
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Suggested Web Application Framework and Database for Enterprise, “Big-Data” App?
I have a web application that I have been developing for a small group within my company over the past few years, using Pipeline Pilot (plus jQuery and Python scripting) for web development and ...
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Will the Facebook apps I build still be available if I deactivate my account? [closed]
I have no desire to have a personal Facebook account, I do have one but it has been deactivated for awhile. A client of mine would like me to port over a few web apps to Facebook that are hosted on ...
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I need a date-picker for an ASP.NET page [closed]
I am trying to re-engineer a web application that currently uses an inhouse-developed date-picker control which has proven to be problematic -- for one thing it will only work on Internet Explorer and ...
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How can you provide a public writeable API and not get spammed?
So say you had a site like StackExchange. Now imagine you created a machine-writeable API capable of posting questions and comments and doing everything your browser can do.
Of course, about 5 ...
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How to begin with web development in PHP [duplicate]
As I am the New Learner in the PHP Web Development and I want to become a good web developer who can at least make a good and dynamic web site quickly.
Currently I have learnt the following things:
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For a web-application, should I programmatically create the database tables or provide a schema file and instructions?
The few LAMP web applications I have installed require me to create the necessary database tables myself, with a schema file, instead of doing it automatically with a script or setup page. Is this a ...
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Exception Handling in Java web application
I know exception handling is a topic often discussed in the world of Java. I've read a few threads on here and SO as well.
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Any performance advantage in copying the session to a variable?
I have a fair number of items in a session, and I am wondering if there are any advantages to copying the session variable to a normal php variable (in order to close the session file as quickly as ...
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How web-servers identify a client
I have seen on some sites which say ,for-example, multiple votes/views from same computer will be neglected/penalized etc. For-example liking a facebook page, or youtube video from same ...
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How to manage automated emails sent from a web application
I am designing a web application and I am wondering how to design the architecture to manage sending automated emails.
Currently I have this feature build into my web app and the emails are sent ...
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Limit number of users in a web app?
I've been asked to look at converting our traditional client-server software into a web-based version (using PHP).
One of the first questions from management was how we'd limit the number of ...
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Is there a conventionally better “build this before that” structure? [closed]
Example: Assume we're using an MVC model and a one person team (so UI team does the view and data team does the model is not a valid answer).
Is it conventionally better to build model harvesting ...
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Presenting PHP source on the Web
I've written a patch for a GPL'ed JavaScript library. To check how the patch works one needs sample CGI (or PHP) backend.
I want to write a demo PHP to show that my JS works and put the open code on ...
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Looking to build a 2 java applications. should it be web-based application or standalone application?
The first application (web-based) will be located at site1 and once the information is processed, it will be sent to the second application(web-based) located at site2. Application2 needs to be able ...
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Using a public username as a login username
It has just dawned on me, that a system I am developing exposes a users username in the URI. This is a problem, since some of the users pages are public. Therefore people will know their username.
I ...
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Managing Alerts in Web Application Using RESTful API
I have designed a RESTful API and I am now working on creating a web application to use the service.
One thing I am struggling with is how to manage alerts in the web application (similar to the ...
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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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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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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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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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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, ...
