Junctions in Windows 7

To create a junction you can use the following command from a terminal:

mklink /J C:\...\linkname C:\...\OriginalFolder

To add a GUI, you can install the shell extension from:


You perform the following steps:

  1. install the x64 prerequisites package
  2. install the link extension
  3. restart explorer (you will be prompted after installation)

Then, instead of copy and paste, you use pick and drop to create junctions and links:

  1. Right click on the original file/folder  and select Pick link source
  2. Right click on the destination folder and select Drop Here  Symbolic link



Submit form data to call a web service (Javascript)

If you want to create a small web project, a approach would be to use a combination of bootstrap (frontend), lumen (backend) and jquery (interaction between the two). It is a very strong combination with a very low owning and maintenance cost that can easily scale (by upgrading to laravel) if needed. You can also use angular with does not add a lot of overhead.

While you are trying to implement the above, the following pattern is encountered a lot of times: you need to call a web service via js while the data are filled by the user via a form on the html page. While the web service is being called, you need to show a spinner on the page so that the user understands that he needs to wait until the call has been completed.

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