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 technology stack and architecture should I use for my web application (Apartment Rental) with mobile app development in the later stage? [on hold]
I'm working on a web app similar to apartments.com and will build mobile apps in a later stage. I'm deciding on which technolgy stack to use. The web app (and mobile app later) will have a chat ...
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Desktop vs Online software estimate: Quicken vs Quicken Online [on hold]
My company would like to estimate whether our software sold as a web software solution would be more or less popular compared to a desktop solution for customers.
We already know the pros and cons of ...
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Is it better to learn HTML+JS+CSS or Livecode to develop a mobile app? [closed]
By HTML+JS+CSS I mean learning to work in Phonegap. By better I mean:
Time (to learn): Which one can I learn faster? It seems like Livecode, but I could be wrong.
Functionality: Does Livecode ...
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Cloud Newbie … what should I know while creating my App [closed]
I never developed for the Cloud, and to tell you the truth I am not fully 100% sure of what Cloud is when coming down to servers and services.
I am starting to develop an App where I will need to be ...
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Design consideration when sharing database between applications [closed]
I have a typical Spring/Hibernate Tomcat webapp that has a user_info table. I’m trying to create another webapp that will do CRUD actions on the user_info table. I'm considering sharing the same ...
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what is the difference between dht, peer exchange and local peer discovery (torrent) [closed]
all of those ideas seems to do the same thing give you peers list from other peers, in order to reduce the tracker traffic and make it more available.
so why each is a different service in the torrent ...
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How to create webcamera video recorder in flash [closed]
How to create a webcamera video recorder in flash with a timer that I can embed in my website so that when it's finished recording the users can save it to their PCs
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Uploading huge amount of images [one by one] [migrated]
I want to upload images about 1000, 2000.
Currently am doing in following way
First of all created <input type="files" multiple />
than after that i get all files in an array then from that ...
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Why is the “app” folder now a (more) common pattern in web projects?
It might be related to the Yeoman project, or they might have adopted this from somewhere else, but it seems to be the default for all of their generators. Aside from Yeoman generators I've also ...
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Why do people use markdown wysiwyg editors in web applications?
I understand the advantages of using markdown in local text files, and then taking those files and generating HTML. This is great for documentation, readme's in git repositories and posts for static ...
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Making a Wordpress site into a Web App using a Third-Party BaaS [migrated]
I would like to use a BaaS service for my mobile apps. Parse.com seems like it will fit my needs, and it offers login (to Parse) through Facebook and other Social sites. The difficulty I am facing is ...
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Modular Web App Network Architecture
Assuming that I am dealing with dedicated physical servers or VPSs, is it conceivable and does it make sense to have distinct servers setup with the following roles to host a web application?
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How does session middleware generally verify browser sessions?
I've been using session middleware to build web apps for years: from PHP's built-in session handling layer to node's connect session middleware. However, I've never tried (or needed) to roll my own ...
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How to implement proper identification and session managent on json post requests?
I have some minor messaging connection to server from website via json requests. I have single endpoint which distributes requests according to identification data. I am using asynchronous server and ...
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Image Processing in browser is too slow on Android compared to that with desktop browser [closed]
Situation
I've written a simple black and white image filter application with JavaScript using html5 canvas. Here is an example of the app . (I don't know why it does not work in jsfiddle, so I gave ...
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Should you use PHP to render the html page or use javascript frameworks? Server-side page rendering or client-side page rendering? [closed]
This may be a inappropriate question, but I'm really need help demystifying this.
Suppose we want to create web application like reddit or Gmail. The way I understood it from my research is that ...
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Is it possible for business logic not to creep into the view?
I've developed for several web application projects for the last 3 years, both personal and at work, and I can't seem to figure out whether it's possible for at least some business logic not ending up ...
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Is there a difference in resource allocation & efficiency between a web app and a compiled one? [closed]
I'm a web developer. I feel like I develop less resource-intensive functionality often times, because I have this feeling that if I ask too much of the web app (animation, calculation, connections, ...
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Website as an API client vs using the API only when needed?
I'm developing a website (using Django) which will depend on an API for it's main functionality which is create/update/delete objects.
But the API also provides:
User sign up and login
User ...
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Single Page Web Application Web Service Scalability
I am trying to build a single page web application that will call multiple web services (both SOAP and RESTful) and aggregate the data in the UI.
Initially I though I could do it all client-side, ...
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Type Safety of Spray.io
Yesterday I read a tweet disparaging Jersey with JAX-RS due to run-time errors. Spray.io was mentioned in the tweet:
Not even 5 minutes using Jersey / JAX-RS and already a runtime error
due to a ...
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Does using a cookie make my web application stateful [closed]
No session data is stored server side, the cookie contains a token that authenticates user.
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AngularJS: structuring a web application with multiple ng-apps
The blogosphere has a number of articles on the topic of AngularJS app structuring guidelines such as these (and others):
http://www.johnpapa.net/angular-app-structuring-guidelines/
...
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Why can't a server continue to act on a request after sending the response?
Say for example I've got a RESTful webservice, and I need to support creating a widget via a POSTed http request. I need to
Deserialize the POSTed widget.
Validate the deserialized widget.
Persist ...
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What to translate in a billingual software
I'm designing/building a web application that will be available in two languages: French/English. I placed i18n mechanisms to extract every text from the application. But what about the user's input?
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Auto Create VM and display IE
I have just acciquired an old Dell Poweredge SC1425 from an old friend, this server will act as a development box for web based applications. All has been going well, I have installed the following ...
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efficient caching with complex user rights
I am currently learning about memcached/redis, and I am trying to figure out how could I use this kind of technology at work.
Now I understand that you should mostly cache data which is common to ...
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Using different DB Connections for different user groups in a web framework
Database designers building enterprise systems usually assign different sets of privileges to different users of DBMS. They can be as granular as needed.
However, in my experience, web frameworks ...
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Dependency injection for request variables in a web application
I'm working a PHP 5.5/MySQL web application.
If a class depends partly on some global GET and POST variables for its members, should I just refer to them directly from within the class, or should I ...
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Making applications build system-aware
Build systems for web applications are great: they give dependency management, code minification, and the ability to use tech like SASS or CoffeeScript that require pre-processing.
However, I find ...
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Web app design: Local caching vs demanding
I'm writing a web application in javascript that will be served to the clients' browser. The intent is for the app to appear to the client as a monolithic application, not a series of interlinked ...
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Application use on website
Is there a good way to run a C# application on clientside in lieu of JavaScript? I have done some front end work with JavaScript and backend C# for web developing at an old job, but I am interested in ...
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Advantages and disadvantages of making one DB per customer [duplicate]
I'm starting to design a web application, and I'm evaluating some decisions regarding the general structure of it. My use case is as follows:
I plan to have multiple customers on a single server. ...
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Suggestion to Design API Centric Application using Appengine
I have been planning to create an new application. So I was designing the application structure.i know this application will be accessed form multiple devices and the app feature will be increased.
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What is the benefit of offloading email to a transactional mail service?
Why do so many people recommend offloading email to a transactional service such as Mandrill, Postmark or Sendgrid?
Is sending email via smtp really that much slower than sending a request out to ...
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Is Object Oriented Design necessary when building Symfony web apps? [closed]
I am primarily a software developer, and as such, I do a lot of reading on the subject of Object Oriented Design; the 5 SOLID principles, design patterns, composition over inheritance etc.
I ...
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Explanation java/web (tomcat/coyote/JSP/Servlet etc..) in 'Perl-world' terms
Analyzed one web-server.
for the http request i got: apache 2.2... what redirects to https, and
for https got apache-coyote 1.1.
and the server runs xwiki java app.
Trying to understand how it is ...
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Web-app DAO and server architecture design for service outside LAN
i just need a suggestion what path should i take to educate myself further.
Situation:
We've got in our company internal (LAN only) application that, among other things, serves something like ...
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reloading singleton classes and dependency
I have a singleton object. It's a DAO that looks somewhat like this (pseudoish code):
class UsersDAO {
public usersDAO init(string sDSN){
variables.sDSN = sDSN;
return this;
}
public ...
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How to handle static-ish content from a CDN with authentication?
I have a website that allows user uploads of content. Part of the design, to date, involves storing the user content on a NAS that has been configured with a separate app pool in IIS that has ...
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Simulate desktop app with Chrome application shortcut
Technically I'm building an intranet web application, with web server running 24/7 and a central database, users can access it with any browser.
However, for the user, the app should have the look ...
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Options for client-side encryption of local web databases
My scenario is as follows:
Web application, run from the browser, designed for mobile devices.
Uses WebSQL storage which may contain sensitive
data.
Uses Application Cache to enable offline use ...
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1answer
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How to introduce testing in the development cycle
In our company, we are only two IT staffs, and I'm the only developper. I'm developping rich intranet applications using plain php and extjs as javascript framework.
Our development cycle is usually ...
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How to you achieve flow in web programming? [closed]
I really like programming simple things, like solutions for Project Euler, where you can concentrate, write an algorithm, instantly execute, test, verify and change the program until it works. Even ...
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How to keep track of links pointing to existing web applications in an Intranet?
At my new place of employment we have a Intranet solution containing multiple web applications hosted in IIS. Outside of the development department other departments either source or create other ...
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How can I interact with a client-side sound device through a web application?
I'm trying to find something that will allow a web application to analyze the line or microphone input from a client and transmit that data to the server. I've looked briefly at WebRTC and, although I ...
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implementing dynamic query handler on historical data
EDIT : Refined question to focus on the core issue
Context:
I have historical data about property (house) sales collected from various sources in a centralized/cloud data source (assume info ...
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How to have my callbacks authenticated in a REST app?
I'm developing a REST application and I allow my clients to authenticate in several ways (typically using Authorization: Token ... as in OAuth 2.0, but also there's session-based auth option for the ...
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Lean Startup MVP: Quality Code or Quick and Dirty [duplicate]
Hello some programmers might know about the lean philosophy,
building a minimal viable product Lean Startup MVP.
I ask myself (when building Webapps):
"Should I put effort into writing good ...
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Why is my page load time so closely correlated with number of database queries?
Whenever I'm doing web development, and a page takes longer than half a second to be generated, I know that somewhere my code is hitting the DB too many times. The normal way to fix this situation is ...
