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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What tools and knowledge do I need to create an application which generates bespoke automated e-mails? [on hold]
I'd like some suggestions as to how to best go about creating an application which can generate bespoke automated e-mails- i.e. send a personalized reply to a particular individual, interpreting the ...
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How to help keep track of identifiers used both in the application and in the database?
For example:
I have an ACL (access control list) with keys in the database like create_user and allow_booking_for_past_dates. Each ACL entry has a corresponding method or function name in the ...
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Advice on designing web application with a 40+ year lifetime
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Currently, I am apart of a health care project whose main requirement is to capture data with unknown attributes using user generated forms by health care providers. The second requirement ...
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Understanding a codebase [duplicate]
What kind of practices should one employ to increase his understanding of a codebase.
I will be a bit more specific and narrow down the question to the domain of an application that includes ...
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How can I correct html for missing closing tags in c# ? [closed]
I have html stored in database received from text editors and because of some mistakes in the code the html is not valid, it is missing some closing tags. and due to this I am not able to process this ...
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Browser-based GUI for a python application [closed]
I want to create a web/browser-based GUI for a command-line python application. The goal is to make use of HTML/JS technologies to create this GUI. As the application itself, it needs to run on Linux ...
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At what point does caching become necessary for a web application?
I'm considering the architecture for a web application. It's going to be a single page application that updates itself whenever the user selects different information on several forms that are ...
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Need help with PHP web app bootstrapping error potentially related to Zend [migrated]
I am trying to get a program called OpenFISMA running on an Ubuntu AMI in AWS. The app is not really coded on the Ubuntu platform, but I am in my comfort zone there, and have tried both CentOS and ...
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Is there an established or defined best practice for source control branching between development and production builds?
I struggled in how to phrase my question, so let me give an example in hopes of making more clear what I am after:
I currently work on a dev team responsible for maintaining and adding features to a ...
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Strategies for browser compatibility on web applications in a corporate environment [closed]
With the new CSS 3 and HTML 5 technology, web applications have gained a lot of new tools for a better UI (user interface) interaction, beautiful templates and even responsive layout to fit into ...
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Storing large data in HTTP Session (Java Application)
I am asking this question in continuation with http-session-or-database-approach.
I am planning to follow this approach.
When user add product to cart, create a Cart Model, add items to cart and ...
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Configurable tables in sql database
I have the following tables in my database:
Config Table:
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Start_Range | End Range | Config_id
10 | 15 | 1
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Single Page Web Application and Requiring JavaScript
I'm under the impression, and I agree with it, that it's bad to create a web application requiring JavaScript to function properly.
What if one were to create a single page application? Is it ...
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Is it realistic to use designers for complex UI [closed]
When I created my first web application few years ago, I remember trying to use the designer in VS 2008. Before I can even remember I abandoned it to the favor of actual debug to understand how my UI ...
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Can the product of Grails framework be classified as a Java-based web application? [closed]
When I search for Java frameworks, one of the popular result is Grails. However, from what I can understand it uses Groovy as the language which is similar to Java. Does this similarity grant me to ...
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Creating my own login API service (eg: “Login with MyApp”)
You know how StackExchange allows you to create and log in through your Google and Facebook accounts? I'd like to know how this works and how I can create something similar on my own. So for example ...
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Is there a name for web applications that do most of the navigation on the client side?
Does the web industry have any standard or common name that refers specifically to web applications that don't use the conventional window-HTTP-navigation model, instead relying on mostly or wholly on ...
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How do the blogging sites or sites that host prose like contents store the data?
How do the blogging sites, Q&A sites (or any other sites host prose like content) store their data? That is, how do you store blogs and Q&A content in the database?
I hope it is not good to ...
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What are the best practices and pitfalls of doing a JS app powered purely by RESTful API? [closed]
We are starting to build a new app and I would like to explore the idea of doing a thick JS client (backbone / angular) with only RESTful API exposed by our application layer. What are some of the ...
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Pro/con of using Angular directives for complex form validation/ GUI manipulation
I am building a new SPA front end to replace an existing enterprise's legacy hodgepodge of systems that are outdated and in need of updating. I am new to angular, and wanted to see if the community ...
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Is it possible to combine C/C++ with web languages? [duplicate]
I would like to create a web application (meaning that will run from browser). The point is that I want to write just the UI in HTML5 + CSS + JS (or maybe even some PHP). On the other hand, I want to ...
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How to check for vulnerabilities in web application [closed]
I have developed a web application using zend framework, mysql, and other client side technologies like javascript, jquery ajax, kendo grid, and so on.
I have completed development and have done ...
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Providing popups in an asp.net web application that contain server controls
What is the best way to provide popups that contain asp.net server controls? I am working on a .net site. I have search functionality where if someone presses a button a panel appears where they can ...
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Design Issue: Service layer/ trying to maintain RESTful architecture
I'm trying to design a web-application - and after doing a lot of reading on REST + design patterns, I'm at a loss on how to handle my requirements. I think I may be getting caught-up in all the ...
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Shall I separate the admin part from the rest of the war
I built a web-applicationg using struts2. Then I built a small admin interface in the same war.
With time the webapp grew and so the admin-interface. Now, I'm thinking to separate the admin interface ...
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Before you develop a web app, how much of a spec do you need? [closed]
If you were to accept a role as a full time web app developer responsible for creating a new application from scratch, how much of a defined specification and design would need and/or expect to start ...
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JSP Include: one large bean or bean for each include
I want to refactor a webapp that consists of very distorted JSPs and servlets. Because we can't switch to a web framework easily we have to keep JSPs and Servlets, and now we are in doubt how to ...
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Handling multiple clients using single application
We are developing an ERP web application using Vaadin framework where each of the potential client companies will have their own data and file storage. Current implementation only allows having one ...
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Multiple sites with the same codebase in Python
I am trying to run a large amount of sites which share about 90% of their code. They are simply designed to query an API and return the results. They will have a common userbase / database but will be ...
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Collecting and sweeping of session-dependent uploads
I develop a Java web application with an upload-feature. The upload is devided into two parts:
During a user-session the user can upload files at any time while navigating through the whole site.
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