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Welcome to the TechScreen site. This side shall support the exchange of knowledge in the domain of Web Engineering and related aspects. As a side effect, this side is used for research on knowledge management technologies. User can pose challenges in the problem domain and can participate in quizzes. Further a bibliography about arcticles in different related domains is continously extended. Finally, questionnaires on different issues are provided. To be able to participate you need an account and a password from TU Wien's TISS system.

Simple and inexpensive way to integrate an interactive map into a website

I once had to implement an interactive map for a website, which had to display dynamical weather data. As it was a rather small project without the access to expensive resources, it needed to be relatively fair priced. Is there an easy and inexpensive method to implement such a project?

Reducing load times and size of scripts and CSS-files

Web services that include a lot of scripts or costly style operations may be very slow, as a lot must be loaded in the background. Is there a way to make these pages load faster?

Bypassing “cross-origin request”-errors on testing a web service locally

Developing a website with a REST-backend and XHR-requests to retrieve data from the underlying database requires a lot of early-on local testing. However, in this case the resource is coming from a different origin and modern web browsers block them (CORS error). Is there any way to bypass this behaviour in the development stage?

Displays with different pixel densities

Problem: Graphics that look sharp on a standard computer monitor look muddy and out of focus on high-resolution smartphone and tablet displays. But: All objects should be smoothly adapted to screen sizes from the smallest smartphone to the largest widescreen monitor. Solution: SVG -> Graphical elements (e.g., icons, arrows etc.) are presented in vectors. SVG format is based on XML. Basic geometric shapes such as circles, ellipses, rectangles etc. can even be created in a simple text editor.

Specific HTML title tags

Problem: - Name of website can affect its performance -> HTML title tags are essential. Tags sum up the entire content of the website to major search engines (Google). A lack of specificity in the domain name can lower its visibility. Some site owners use the same title throughout their website -> Google looks for duplicate title tags and pares them. In worse cases the web site can lose traffic in this way. Solution: - Doing a name search as “site:yourdomain.com.” Analyze your website with: Google Search Console (aka “Google Webmaster Tools”).

Traffic spikes

Problem: - Spikes during marketing promotions with videos - company often not prepared for the extra traffic - Also server can slow down - Hindered performance of the website which is harming the brand Solution: - Setting up an early warning system using simulated user monitoring systems - E.g. = “NeoSense” -> helps to see when traffic is impacting transactions before users are affected

One login for different applications?

We had different applications running but wanted to implement a loginsystem so that the user only has to login once to use all our applications. The way was to use keycloak as our single sign-on solution. Now it is possible to have only one login for every user. Another reason for using keycloak was the ability to Active Directory users without any hassle. Furthermore, it supports 2-factor authentication which is very important for us since we handle financial data.

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