I wouldn’t count on it. It’s probably okay to listen for shortcuts that use the Alt modifier, but there’s still no way to be sure a keyboard shortcut is free. Users can always install programs that listen for keyboard shortcuts, or use a browser you didn’t expect. If the shortcuts can be used only when … Read more
I’m a developer on Cloud Foundry — and yes, Cloud Foundry is indeed a bit nebulous (no pun intended). Hopefully I can help clarify things a bit. Cloud Foundry is a platform as a service, but it needs an infrastructure as a service underneath it. Cloud Foundry supports vSphere, vCloud, OpenStack, and Amazon AWS as … Read more
Should there be separate Docker containers for the web server (such as Apache), the database server (such as MySQL) and each part of the web application? There is no correct answer to that question. If you will be using Docker in production, then try to run your Docker containers in your development environment as they … Read more
I think you might be looking for PathPrefix… func main() { r := mux.NewRouter() r.HandleFunc(“/search/{searchTerm}”, Search) r.HandleFunc(“/load/{dataId}”, Load) r.PathPrefix(“https://stackoverflow.com/”).Handler(http.FileServer(http.Dir(“./static/”))) http.ListenAndServe(“:8100”, r) }
tl;dr: with server-side routing you download an entire new webpage whenever you click on a link, with client-side routing the webapp downloads, processes and displays new data for you. Imagine the user clicking on a simple link: <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/hello”>Hello!</a> On a webapp that uses server side routing: The browser detects that the user has clicked … Read more
What is web.xml file and what all things can I do with it ? The /WEB-INF/web.xml file is the Web Application Deployment Descriptor of your application. This file is an XML document that defines everything about your application that a server needs to know (except the context path, which is assigned by the Application Deployer … Read more
The issue of storing timestamps is simple: Store them in UTC. As for displaying them, it would make sense to take the device’s timezone setting and use that as the current timezone. That said, there should be a timezone dropdown next to the “time input” box, which defaults to the device’s current timezone, so the … Read more
According to the episode 27 of the StackOverflow podcast, the Reddit guys really seem to like HAProxy. Here’s a brief tutorial showing HAProxy being used with Amazon’s EC2. You can find much more information at the HAProxy web site.
Commercial Products: Atlassian Jira (which ties in nicely with Confluence (the wiki)) – Surprisingly good for commercial software. Open Source: Edgewall Trac – (Wiki, Ticketing, and more) Drupal (+plugin) Best Practical RT – I’ve heard good things about this, but have never used it myself
Here’s another vote for JMeter. JMeter is an open-source load testing tool, written in Java. It’s capable of testing a number of different server types (for example, web, web services, database, just about anything that uses requests basically). It does however have a steep learning curve once you start getting to complicated tests, but it’s … Read more