As programmers most of us today are writing programs/scripts that consume data from web services or APIs, like the Facebook Graph API, etc....
Python urllib2 library contains functions with enables programmers to access remote URLs by helping out in the operations like HTTP Basic...
Sphinx (acronym for SQL Phrase Index) is a full-text search engine, it runs as a daemon and serves to requests of client applications. Client...
Most applications like browsers, text editors, etc. come built in with spelling suggestions, they highlight a possible incorrect English word...
HAProxy stands for High Availability Proxy, is an open-source TCP/HTTP load balancer. In case you are new to the idea of a load balancer, the...
AJAX was a boon to web development and web applications like GMail etc. millions of site have since implemented AJAX based features on their...
7z is a compressed archive format which has a modular structure so the user can select the compression method, encryption method, block...
Memcache is a high-performance open-source caching server daemon and it's robust, fast & distributed system. Memcached has a client-server model,...
HTML parsing has become quite necessary in the online world, from tools, online HTML tutorials to lint programs and crawlers, all need HTML to be...
Parsing HTML has always been a tough cookie even for seasoned programmers, but nowadays parsing HTML is extensively used for scraping websites,...
SPF or Sender Policy Framework is a system created to prevent e-mail spam & e-mail spoofing. It does so by verifying the sender's IP address is...
File Transfer Protocol or popularly known as FTP has been a de facto standard for transferring files for many years, can be used in many...
EXIF stands for Exchangeable image file format is standard by which metadata is stored in image & sound file formats, these are sometimes added...
System tools & monitoring programs are often required to monitor a directory or file(s) for changes, not just content changes, it may even be...
PHP 4.0.2 onwards libcurl support was added in PHP, libcurl is a free client library initially written by Daniel Stenberg which allows us to...
I have tried introducing people to Git VCS, both personally and through by articles at G4E, I have written 2 articles, Introduction to Git VCS &...
Normally web traffic (HTTP) is unencrypted i.e. it's passed around the network in plain text, so anyone with the right tools can view what's being...
Command line arguments are quite old, in the days of DOS they were generally just options enabling/disabling mechanism and were known as...
JSON is the most popular format for exchanging data between different systems, primarily AJAX calls, web services, REST APIs, etc. Ruby combined...
Random numbers or precisely in computer terms pseudo random number generators are extensively used in computing around the world today, which...
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