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Blog on technology updates and API's. Lots of free API's and widgets for websites.
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How to build a custom static file serving HTTP server using Libevent in C
Libevent is an event notification library which lays the foundation for immensely successful open source projects like Memcached. As the web advances into a real time mode, more and more websites are using a mix of technologies like HTTP Pub-Sub, HTT...
How to add content verification using hmac in PHP
Many times a requirement arises where we are supposed to expose an API for intended users, who can use these API endpoints to GET/POST data on our servers. But how do we verify that only the intended users are using these API’s and not any hack...
How to use locks for assuring atomic operation in Memcached?
Memcached provide atomic increment and decrement commands to manipulate integer (key,value) pairs. However special care should be taken to ensure application performance and possible race conditions while using memcached. In this blog post, I will fi...
Making cross-sub-domain ajax (XHR) requests using mod_proxy and iframes
One of the restrictions imposed by all browser side programming languages is that one cannot make cross-domain ajax requests. This restriction comes because of the same origin policy and even sub-domain ajax calls are not allowed. In this blog post, ...
PHP tokens and opcodes : 3 useful extensions for understanding the working of Zend Engine
“PHP tokens and opcodes” – When a PHP script is executed it goes through a number of processes, before the final result is displayed. These processes are namely: Lexing, Parsing, Compiling and Executing. In this blog post, I will wa...
Introducing MemChat: Open source group chat framework in PHP supporting Memcached, APC, SQLite, Flat Files and MySQL
MemChat is an open source group chat framework for personal and enterprise level websites. Written in PHP, MemChat can be configured to run with Memcached, APC, SQLite, Flat files and MySQL as it’s storage engine. With memcached, APC and Flat f...
