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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.

Differences between browsers, such as the window.event that does not work in Firefox

While the window.event was correctly evaluated on Chrome and IE, Firefox gave the error "ReferenceError:Event is not defined".
Submitted by Savvas Yiannopoulos on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 19:46

Moving WordPress website to a live server

Creating a WP webpage on a local server and when finished moving it to a live server can cause different problems. For example the website I moved to a clients' server, ended up with a great amount of missing parts.
Submitted by Savvas Yiannopoulos on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 19:44

Making a search engine for a website

Websites that are made without the use of any CMS require the use of various technologies for the creation of a fully functional option. Some technologies require a lot of technical competences and are difficult to work with in order to integrate them in an already existing project.
Submitted by Savvas Yiannopoulos on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 19:42

import excel data table into database with only phpMyAdmin access

In a specific table in a MySQL database a column needed to be populated with thousands of different values depending on a row-ID. The row-ID and value pairs could be found in an excel file / table. No direct access to MySQL was possible, only the import function of phpMyAdmin could be used.
Submitted by Marian Berendes on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 19:12

Problem using inline attachments in E-Mails in Rails application

For some reason using an image within an html e-Mail (inline attachment) did display correctly in my rails application. Instead the attachment was displayed as a "normal" attachment in the attachment section of the E-Mail client.
Submitted by Marian Berendes on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 18:57

Generating a barcode image within a Rails application

For a sport charity event with participants signing up beforehand online I needed to generate a barcode representation as an png file within a Rails application.
Submitted by Marian Berendes on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 18:45

How to deal with exceeding memory limits while dealing with really large lists?

While implementing and testing a text document Java-based index, one of my main problems was an OutOfMemoryException. This happened quite often since the size of the collection was pretty large. I did try to increase the heap size, but this did not really solve the problem. How do you handle processing large batches of data without exceeding the memory limits?
Submitted by Angelos Arampatzis on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 18:28

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Submitted by Alfred Soare on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 18:27

Open PDF files on browser by default instead of prompting users to download.

Sometimes it might be more convenient for the user to just open a pdf document on the web browser instead of the classic popup prompting them to open or download the file. Although more advanced users know that there exists an option to always display pdf files on the browser side, it might be necessary to provide that option by default.
Submitted by Angelos Arampatzis on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 18:26

CSS Tooltip

I once had to deal with the tooltip of a dropdown menu. The button which opened the menu right below it (on mouseover) had a tooltip which always appeared below the button as well, covering part of the first menu item, which made it annoying for the user to deal with.
Submitted by Angelos Arampatzis on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 18:22

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