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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.

Best way to save files?

My first idea would be to just use a filesystem and store my files there, but there are many advantages to use a database, since it's faster and supports ACID consistency. After looking at the pros and cons we decided to just use a MongoDB and save the bytestreams of the files in there. The data is more consistent, we can get them very quickly and since we already had a database setup we had not much effort to create our own "filesystem" in the database.

How to achieve zero downtime deployment?

Most websites need to be up 24 hours every day, so we need a solution to deploy changes to the website without taking it down. The solution is to have more than one application server and use a load balancer. You have your application running on one of the servers and when you need to make changes, you deploy the new version on the other server. Now when a user is currently using the website he will still be using the old version, but when he connects to the website the next time he will be redirected to the other server with the new version.

How to write a LaTex formula in a Moodle forum entry

In Moodle forums, LaTex formulas can be embedded as separate formulas or inline formulas. For this purpose, the „Mathematics mode“ has to be activated. This can occur by doing the following: Creation of an inline formula: write a $ sign before and after the formula. Creation of a formula displayed in a separate line: write $$ before and after the formula.

How to create a GitLab Wiki and integrate Java code

A GitLab Wiki can be created from the navigation bar in the GitLab menu. The starting point is the Home page, which is the top of the tree. Further pages are added as child pages to the wiki tree. Each change of a page can be tracked by clicking on the history of the page. The GitLab-specific markdown can be used for formatting the wiki pages. To integrate Java code in a wiki page, one has to use three back-ticks (```) before and after the piece of code. This produces inline code and the appropriate syntax highlighting for Java code.

Preparing the first time use of Docker (using Windows OS)

This problem occurred when using Docker for the first time. Before a docker-compose.yml is created and the command docker-compose up can be used to actually run the containers/commands indicated in the file, some configuration has to be done when using Windows OS. In this case, a Docker volume was used.

How to connect to a database? How to read or write data?

How to make a website with dynamic content? We need to store the content somewhere. And a good, searchable storage is a database. Almost every webservice needs a database. But how do connect to the database? And how do we read and write the data?

Validate an Email address

It's a common task to integrate email addresses to a web application. But how do we check them? How to make sure it's a valid Email Address? On which level?

Test login functionality after every code change.

Testing the very common functionality of "login"/"sing in" might be exhausting if we have to test it after every change in the project. Entering the credentials every time, or even if they are stored in the browser, one has to click through it. There must be some better way...

Adding Jsp jars with maven!

How can i add JSP jars on eclipse through maven?

Drupal 7 - Export of Case structure and instances

I have a problem with the export, actually with the feature function. I want to export our group case structure and instances, but the problem is under the content type there isn't the CBR case listed, is this an issue or exist another way to export the cases? Thanks in advance Cheers, Markus

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