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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Should I use <table> or <div>?
I am making a time-sheet portion of a website and I was wondering if using to create the time-sheet portion is an appropriate usage of table or would div be a better use?
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Best Programming Language for Data Comparison Site? [on hold]
I'm going to hire a programmer to build a website that primarily compares data that is measured in-house. Please see here for an example:
http://tiny.cc/sgf19x
http://tiny.cc/qff19x
Being clueless ...
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What languages would compliment COBOL? [on hold]
That title alone should direct enough curiosity to this question to get me some answers.....
I just started working for a state government office that depends on COBOL for processing payments and ...
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What should I know to create applications in Phoenix Webframework? [on hold]
I am a beginner in creating web applications. Till this date I have only knowledge of creating applications that run on a command-line or terminal. I would like to advance myself to the next level. I ...
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One vagrant file (/var/www/VagrantFile) for multiple apps
I manage multiple apps in my dev:
/var/www/
qa
jt
auth
We have a QA vagrant which runs QA app in its own vagrant. My understanding was that each app would run its own VM but this would ...
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Debugging a client issue [on hold]
What process should one follow when attempting to debug an issue that only a client can reproduce?
I am a front end engineer of a web application. Usually I am able to reproduce any issue once I ...
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Which is the best way to manage multI-account multi-user web application ?
I Am junior web developer, currently I developing school application with PHP and MYSQL, after finishing the app I would like to distribute more schools by allowing them to register in the app and use ...
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What is the proper infrastructure and release cycle for developing and testing an application? [closed]
I am developing a web application for my coworkers, and from a little management app it is becoming a more and intense large project that is involving more people as I go. I am pretty sure my boss ...
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How to create data driven views in AngularJS?
I am building a support web front-end for our team from where we can perform various support functions for a number of different sites at which our products run. This typically involves running some ...
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Web Application using only REST API
In an experimental personal project I (along with a "team" of friends) did some time ago, we used a REST API to provide all data. The frontend (a JS-only webapp) then just called this API using AJAX. ...
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Am I using Zend Form library correctly? (I am effectively duplicating work in Controller and in View)
Brief Summary
This question is asking for guidance on how to deal with Zend Form library that allows me to specify how to construct each form element (Controller side) and how to render each element ...
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Best way to manage Git branches in different environments
I had a basic question regarding using a git repository in different environments. I'm more of a Sys admin than a web developer, so the teams I've worked on before just worked right in the master, ...
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How do I calculate server requirement for a web application
I am developing a backend where in I will be exposing APIs for my mobile application. Users can register,add products,share the links of products through email/sms/anywhere and others can click on it ...
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The future of application cache in HTML 5 [closed]
I had previously deployed application storage in HTML5 to great success in the deployment stage of a few client projects. I used the app cache feature mostly as a way to allow my clients to remotely ...
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Designing a web based smart card publisher
I'm working on an application that's supposed to have a web based GUI where you can insert some data. That data will be saved in persistent storage and a hex number generated and stored alongside. ...
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Organizing effectively the project
One of our assignments is to write a website which should use a database. I would like to have some help organizing it. Here are characteristics of our work.
The assignment is for a group of 5 ...
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Should we reuse web app logs for user behaviour analytics?
Our web app generates a large amount of logs. These logs include both events regarding background operations in the app (data arrives from the server, ajax failures, inter-component communication, ...
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Do and Undo action in the same / different page - Is there a difference?
If I'm bulding an application like a social network and I implement a like / favorite button with AJAX, is it preferable to use one URL to like / dislike or 2 differents URL?
If I use one, for ...
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Postgres roles for website users
I am setting up a PostgreSQL database with a very small number of tables for a simple website. I am looking at ways to make it as solid and auditable as possible. Is there any particular reason why ...
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Consuming REST services: client or server
I am working on a new project in which we are currently deciding which technologies and frameworks we will be using. The application will eventually be cross platform. Therefore, for the server side, ...
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Developing an app using Django. Do I design front-end after app? Or develop Django to fit UI? [duplicate]
Edit: this differs from a similar question because I'm interested specifically in how Django works with the front-end. I.e. what is considered best practice when developing using the Django framework.
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Building a generalized notification system: passive vs. active
Recently, I've tried my hand at building a notification system, but I quickly found that notifications are tricky things, especially in the context of building a general model. The diversity of what ...
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Client Side Filtering or Server Side Filtering
So I am building a web-app. The app will be hosted on heroku and I using a MEAN Stack for development. The main purpose of the app is to allow users to search through data and be able to find a ...
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Confusion over Node as a “script” vs Node as a “server”
As I was beginning to tool around a bit with node, I was told that I needed to undergo a little bit of a paradigm shift since I was coming from a PHP background. I would ask questions like, "I have my ...
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Personal pages domains architecture
We're looking to add personal pages generator for our users, which is simple enough while all of them are on our domain. We also want to enable them to purchase their own domains through us, and serve ...
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How to analyze a code of a web application which is running? [closed]
Joshua Bloch said in an interview that the best way to know and understand code written by others is to read it, mentally or through a debugger. Well, my question is this: is it possible, through a ...
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Should I use a single repo when multiple parts of the same project are running on the same server? [duplicate]
I'm planning a project that consists of the following parts:
REST API in Lumen
Web client in Laravel
Product website in Jekyll
These separate products are going to be running on the same server.
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Why are the smart folks who write and adopt react.js okay with the way markup is tightly-coupled/buried inside Javascript?
Quite a while ago there was a concerted trend in the industry to move towards adopting templating to separate markup from logic, or something like that. The result was much more pleasing to the eye ...
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Best approach to develop php mysql project with multiple developers
We are 4 developers working on a PHP-mySQL web project. Currently we work together as described below:
All project files except DB is hosted at GitHub
All project files except DB is hosted at GitHub
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How can one demonstrate client site website content after the sites have been updated?
I currently work for a web design and development company and for the past couple of months i have developed over 10 websites and about 2/3s are live on the web. now most of these websites were for ...
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Am i looking at HTML / Django the wrong way? [closed]
So I'm comfortable programming in Python, I love the minimalist nature of the language. However, I haven't been exposed to any Django yet.
I do know html, css etc for web design but when making ...
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Is there a limit to how often I should access a website programically to avoid DDOS? [closed]
I have my own website that displays some data I get from webscraping. I run the webscraping script on my website host server. I just realized that maybe I'm accessing other websites too quickly ...
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Can I use Qt open-source for my web-scraping website? [closed]
I apologize if I should be understanding this more readily but I'm a little new to this and dont understand the LGPL license. Here is the FAQ for it: http://www.qt.io/qt-licensing-terms/
I am making ...
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Who does what in a Single Page Application? [closed]
My development background is in ASP .NET webforms. I've been reading various SPA tutorials but they always get into the weeds about specific javascript libraries.
I'm just trying to understand what ...
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Where should user input be validated? [duplicate]
I am working on a webbased user interface using AngularJS. As a database I am using MongoDB which can be accessed through an Python-eve-API.
The API is able to validate the passed data as stated in ...
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Web Services vs Server Side Methods
With all the front end development frameworks now available. I'd like to know if the generally accepted protocol is for a back end service to simply provide web services for the front end to consume?
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Is client-side validation really all that important, always? [duplicate]
Through the years I've worked in web development it's been ingrained in me that client-side validation is absolutely and completely necessary in all web applications. Seems to me like all the people ...
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Alternative to coding directly on server? [duplicate]
We have a large website made in PHP running in Apache on Linux. There are programmers as well as non-technical users modifying the website every day and we do it directly on the test server.
Is there ...
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Would it be possible to transfer an HTML file using a protocol different from HTTP?
I am reading about internet and stuff and just learned that web pages are really just HTML files.
Also, I have learned that HTTP is just a transfer protocol.
So my question is, would it be possible ...
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What is NOT MVC? (in a web app)
It is easy to find many descriptions of what MVC is - for instance here, here or in this video.
I'm curious, what is NOT MVC?
or more precisely - In a MVC-using app, what is everything else apart ...
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Design for responsive app tracker
I'm working a SPA that tracks a number of applications which are scheduled to run on a given computer. I'm creating UI that looks similar to a daily planner.
So at the top of the page I have two ...
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Best way to develop new features as well as fix any bugs for a web system on Windows [closed]
I'm a one-man band and I have a contract with a client to develop and maintain a web-based system that is relied upon. This is the first project of this size and type that I have done for anyone else ...
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What is preferred in an MVC framework, having each string defined as a variable in the Controller or generating them in the Template?
In a clear separation of the MVC layers, having each variable in the view seems to be the right way, but in practice in can be more "natural" (at least for me) to put them in the template. for ...
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What are the impact to the server when using ajax polling for live web pages?
I've been searching on the internet about using interval ajax polling for live web pages and I've been using it along with SignalR. Now I always read an article online about using ajax polling for ...
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Protection against XSS using a tiny virtual-machine in browser
I'm working on a web framework that makes surveys. It has an expression manager which lets admin users run code on the client as Javascript. There could be a potential XSS problem when there's more ...
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Writing Selenium Tests - Modifying Markup Under Test [closed]
We'd like to know what you view as best practices and what has worked for your projects
My organization is in the beginning phases of creating a Selenium test suite, and have had some early ...
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Client blocks fonts in browser => font-awesome is not being displayed
I am working on a web platform for which we have different clients. In this platform we make a strong use of font-awesome.
I have always thought this was a safe and elegant choice with which I had ...
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Service oriented web architecture speed
Imagine a simple service architecture setup: single server where I have one service acting as a REST API (PHP), another service for rendering frontend (nodejs), and maybe a database service.
They all ...
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Any benefits of splitting web project stylesheets?
Regarding the fact that C in CSS stands for Cascade, so generally speaking rules described in one file can modify/subsitute rules in other files, can we claim that all project css files should be ...
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Version control of a website : dev/production front-end files
I'm trying to think of a better way to version control our website projects. Keep in mind I'm only a front-end dev so I don't have a profound knowledge of VCS.
Workflows are changing, and past ...
