In HTTP there are two ways to POST data: application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data . I understand that most browsers are only able to upload files if multipart/form-data is used. Is there any additional guidance when to use one of the encoding types in an API context (no browser...

...online system tries real hard to do #2, and the situation described above happens all the time. I usually have to wait until the server-side session expires before I can use the banking system again. share | ...

...ll is that it is tricky to update, tricky to query against, and you cannot apply indexes, constraints and so on. (2) Having redundant non-key data (ie. data repeated unnecessarily in several rows). Example: UserId | UserName | Car ----------------------- 1 | John | Toyota 2 | Sue ...

...the physical deployment of layers. Source: Rockford Lhotka, Should all apps be n-tier? share | improve this answer | follow | ...

...g_test is the anchor. The reason that Facebook and other Javascript-driven applications (like my own Wood & Stones) use anchors is that they want to make pages bookmarkable (as suggested by a comment on that answer) or support the back button without reloading the entire page from the server. I...

I'm developing a webapp (not a website with pages of interesting text) with a very different interface for touch (your finger hides the screen when you click) and mouse (relies heavily on hover preview). How can I detect that my user has no mouse to present him the right interface? I plan to leave a...

...s Xanadu had tried to implement a distributed scheme), the WWW was a new approach for implementing a distributed hypertext system. Berners-Lee combined a simple client-server protocol, markup language, and addressing scheme in a way that was powerful and easy to implement. I think most innovations...

...e Cocoa/CF documentation (which is always a great first port of call). The Apple docs have a section at the top of each reference article called "Companion Guides", which lists guides for the topic being documented (if any exist). For example, with NSTimer, the documentation lists two companion guid...

I'm developing a multilanguage software. As far as the application code goes, localizability is not an issue. We can use language specific resources and have all kinds of tools that work well with them. ...

...nabling autocomplete. Google wrote a pretty nice guide for developing web applications that are friendly for mobile devices. They have a section on how to name the inputs on forms to easily use auto-fill. Eventhough it's written for mobile, this applies for both desktop and mobile! How to Enable ...