Date: 06/20/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

I have a question for folks.

When you are building a website or application if you need a component (like say a photo gallery or rich text editor) where would you go to look for one.
I have a few sites that I have gone to, but someone at work asked me and I was wondering where else people tended to look

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/328364.html

Date: 06/20/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Media conglomerate says shows offered free on Web are helping its networks gain viewership, consumer data.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6085661.html

Date: 06/20/06 (Security)    Keywords: web, hosting

Defacement of site was likely due to faulty configuration of a Web server at a third-party hosting facility.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6085589.html

Date: 06/20/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: security, web

A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on MySpace.com sued the MySpace for $30 million, claiming that it fails to protect minors from adult sexual predators. The lawsuit claims that the Web site does not require users to verify their age and calls the security measures aimed [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sexually-assaulted-teen-sues-myspace-for-30-million/

Date: 06/20/06 (C Sharp)    Keywords: programming, database, sql, web

I'm writing a program in C# 1.1 that extracts documents from our current database to be then transferred into our new content manager/collaborator or whatever. Anyways I have basically written the program and it successfully extracts the documents that I tell it to, but the problem is that its a major memory hog, and when I monitor the memory and the heap size it is just staggering. The problem is that I basically have loops that are going and grabbing sometimes hundreds of documents at a time, and when the documents are over 1mb in size it almost starts to get scary. I should also point out that I've never written a program like this before and I have learned more about programming and memory management than I ever cared to know. I don't know if there's anything I'm programming wrong, or if I'm not releasing resources correctly. My "expertise" is more in Web development than this, and it doesn't help that not alot of people at my company know C#. Anyways below is the code I have for grabbing multiple documents.

{
con.Open();

SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter("Select * FROM tblMics_Docs_Versions WHERE mvItemID = " + number + " ORDER BY mvVersionedDate DESC", con);

int i = 0;
int j = 1;

byte[] MyData = new byte[0];

da.Fill(ds.Tables[1]);
da.Dispose();

DataRow myRow;

for (i = 0; i <= ds.Tables[1].Rows.Count - 1; i++)
{

myRow=ds.Tables[1].Rows[i];
MyData = (byte[])myRow["mvContent"];

string thefile;

string theid;

thefile = myRow["mvFileName"].ToString();

theid = myRow["mvItemID"].ToString();

int ArraySize = new int();
ArraySize = MyData.GetUpperBound(0);

string s=System.IO.Path.Combine(dept, "ID " + theid + " Version " + j + " " + thefile);
DirectoryInfo di = Directory.CreateDirectory(@"c:\BMS Old\" + dept);
FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"C:\BMS Old\"+ s, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
fs.Write(MyData, 0,ArraySize);

fs.Close();



myRow = null;
MyData = null;
j++;
s = null;
di = null;
thefile = null;
theid = null;

}
ds.Dispose();
ds.Tables[1].Dispose();
ds.Tables[1].Clear();

con.Close();

//con.Dispose();
//con = null;
}

I'm sure this code isn't great, but at the very least it WORKS. Now I need to clean it up so we can run this in a production environment. Thank you.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/65808.html

Date: 06/20/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser, web

Newest version of browser offers specialized Web-based widget programs, BitTorrent support and pop-up ad blocking.
Video: A tune-up for Opera
Images: BitTorrent and more

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6085759.html

Date: 06/20/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Web-generated revenue could help fill profit shortfall in traditional print operations, publishers say.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6085925.html

Date: 06/21/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Country's IT minister says $86 million allocated for free online downloads of a Web application, yet to be chosen.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6086259.html

Date: 06/21/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: ecommerce, database, sql, web

So need some opinions here. What would YOU recommend as spec. for a box to host a website (.Net,Windows 2k3,IIS 6) with, let's say, approx. 100,000 hits/mo., intranet, and database (SQLServer 2k5). Content is dynamic and served from the db, but no ecommerce or other db transactions?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/328591.html

Date: 06/21/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: cms, web

“Magnolia 3.0 is a commercial open-source Enterprise Content Management System that integrates web content management (CMS) and document management (DMS) through one web-based, AJAX-powered user interface. It is used around the world to maintain web sites, intranets and extranets by companies, governments and NGO’s of any size.” In my experience it is very user friendly [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/magnolia-cms-30-released-feature-rich-enterprise-cms-java/

Date: 06/21/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: css, web

(I hope I can word this correctly)
A client of ours wants to be able to upload a file and then have it on a web page. No problem right? Upload via ftp and edit the page, bam done. Except that they want to do it and I cannot guess if they have any technical skill. The uploading part is easy peasy, its the edit the page to add the link (and css styling) with a description that I have not found any pre-made solution. Some free time (haha) and a little python or perl work should do it, but I ask you all here if you have seen something that works good (since there is little to no reason to re-invent the wheel).
Thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/328803.html

Date: 06/21/06 (Algorithms)    Keywords: web

I am wondering if anyone on this community knows of a good towers of hanoi tutorial. Here's the problem: I've read several of these tutorials. But to me, they all jump a lot of steps in the explanation. They will say something like: this is a recursive problem. The first thing is to move all of the disks but the first one onto a helper peg. The next step is to move the large peg onto the destination. Then we move the other pages onto the destination peg. It's that easy. And here is the simple algorithm for that: [blah blah blah].

The problem with this type of explanation to me is that it doesn't make it at all clear just how someone devised the algorithm, that is, how they determined the order of the source, destination, and auxiliary arguments for each recursive call. I'm a beginner and I really want someone to break down the problem for me into its smallest possible components, being very explicit about how each line of code is generated. So far, I just haven't seen a site that has done this (which I find really surprising and disappointing, I must say).

Note that I'm not asking for the solution to the problem. That's readily available. What I need to do is understand the process involved in developing the solution, because right now I'm just not getting it. So I would be extremely grateful to anyone who can point me to an exceptionally basic web site on the matter or, if you're extremely kind, try to explain how the solutions knew how to add the extra source, destination, and auxiliarly peg information.

I can show you the part of the problem I understand really well. It's this part, stripped of everything from the disk numbers:
function hanoi(n)
{
if (n == 1)
print(n);
else {
hanoi(n-1);
print(n);
hanoi(n-1);
}
}

But I'm really having trouble understanding how someone gets from the code I just wrote to the full solution...?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/algorithms/78783.html

Date: 06/22/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: css, web

As web designers go, I qualify as an amateur at best. Unfortunately this places me well above the other members of my theatre company so I get to redesign the website. I fear I may be attempting to do something impossible. I am looking to link the height of two div boxes without making them a fixed size, and I want to do it in a stylesheet. Ideally I would like to say something along the lines of

#content {
}

#colorbar {
    height: #content.height;
}

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/329016.html

Date: 06/23/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, html, web

Hi all!

Im an ameteur web designer who really designs for my own hobbies.

I am teaching myself Dreamweaver and have had some experience building basic html pages in FrontPage and Notepad.

I have a website that I want to update. The current format uses anchoring to move people from chapter to chapter within the one page. I have been told that perhaps CSS is a better layout way for me to show my webpage stories.

Ideally I would like a navigation side bar on the left. Ideally I would like the header etc at the top. I deally I would want a footer which holds the copyright etc. THe section on the right would contain each chapter. Chapter 2 would replace chapter 1 once chapter 2 was selected on the nav bar etc. etc.

My original post was in my own LJ and can be found HERE

I welcome any critisisms on how I could "better" my layout and any advice on how things could be done.

Thanks.
Shanna

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1129216.html

Date: 06/23/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Today I went to a volunteer organization's monthly meeting for their new website to be presented. I did the design (but not the coding), as well as the logo/identity.

After the meeting was adjourned, a few people came up to me asking for some design services. My only concern with one woman was that she said her organization already has a website, but nobody is trained in maintaining it and they have no way of adding content.

Obviously not every business or volunteer organization can afford to have a web designer in-house. This woman was a volunteer for a non-profit, so I doubt I could even charge them for *me* to upload content for them.

So, what's the easiest way for laypeople to upload content to their website? Give them an FTP client and some carefully worded instructions?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1129116.html

Date: 06/23/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: css, html, web

Hi all!

Im an ameteur web designer who really designs for my own hobbies.

I am teaching myself Dreamweaver and have had some experience building basic html pages in FrontPage and Notepad.

I have a website that I want to update. The current format uses anchoring to move people from chapter to chapter within the one page. I have been told that perhaps CSS is a better layout way for me to show my webpage stories.

Ideally I would like a navigation side bar on the left. Ideally I would like the header etc at the top. I deally I would want a footer which holds the copyright etc. THe section on the right would contain each chapter. Chapter 2 would replace chapter 1 once chapter 2 was selected on the nav bar etc. etc.

My original post was in my own LJ and can be found HERE

I welcome any critisisms on how I could "better" my layout and any advice on how things could be done.

Thanks.
Shanna

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/330169.html

Date: 06/23/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

Today telcos and cable TV companies want to pump torrents of bits through their pipes using their own web services, but more importantly, in the form of high definition (HD) TV/video. Will it kill Web 2.0 Media services? Podcast, a Web 2.0 phenomenon, media is observing tremendous growth thanks to widespread availability of broadband. Consumers are [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/will-hd-tvvideo-outflank-web20-media-podcast/

Date: 06/23/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

U.S. regulatory filing shows search giant sells its 2 percent stake in China's leading Web search firm.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6087226.html

Date: 06/23/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Adding books, movies and music to the Web mix, the Internet Archive's founder wants to create the "Library of Alexandria, v.2."
Photos: Internet Archive

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6087167.html

Date: 06/23/06 (C Sharp)    Keywords: database, web, hosting

I've got three questions.
One - on user profiles.
Two - on membership providers.
Three - on the correctness of my general approach.

So, here they go:

1) I wrote the following code in Page_Load:

string test_usr = "bush";
string test_pwd = "george"; // that's why pentagon gets hacked
string test_email = "bush@whitehouse.gov";

Membership.CreateUser(test_usr, test_pwd, test_email);
FormsAuthentication.Authenticate(test_usr, test_pwd);

Profile["uid"] = "43"; // Error: the property cannot be set for anonimous user
Profile["utype"] = "President";
Response.Output.Write(Profile["uid"] + " " + Profile["utype"]);

I pointed out an error in the comments above. I thought that once user is authenticated, it's assumed that I'm accessing him, when I use Profile. How do I do it properly? (Read a few articles, didn't find it.)

2) A Membership Provider has the connection string, which tells authentication system where to store everything. Well, I went to that weird directory deep in VS.NET folders, and found the default provider, and edited it. Now membership works with my remote db properly. But, will it work when I move it to the website hosting? Doesn't seem to me that that file I edited will move along with the website. What do I do then?

This is an approach question, if you have some time. :)
3) We have a database of clients' data. This database, however, has no authentication fields, like passwords, usernames, and so on. I decided that authentication should be implemented separately, using Membership Providers. I've prepared a separate database for that purpose, edited the Provider, and tables were created perfectly. So I thought, I'm gonna use the User Profiles in order to store the client's id in the authentication database, which is the same id as the one stored in the client data db. This way I'm kind of connecting the two databases together. There are a couple of reasons I'm doing it. First - if I was to put all the data into User Profiles, without using separate database, it'd be slow and ineffective. Second - some clients are already in the database before they even registered on the website. (database is created independently of them). Therefore, if they do register, all I would need to do, is bind their authentication info to their actual data in the other database. Is this a good approach for the whole thing?

Another long post, I know. Thanks for all the help so far!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/67218.html