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cURL is a command line tool for doing all sorts of interesting and essential URL manipulations and data transfers. The original goal of the program was to transfer files programmatically via protocols such as http, ftp, gopher, sftp, ftps, scp, tftp, and many others, via a command line interface. The main benefit of using the [...]
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Recently for a small design work a creation of a Photoshop PSD document was required. Being a high resolution image the file size went up to something around 85MB. Zipping the document brought down the size to a manageable 35MB (but still quite large for my net connection) . As all designers know, frequent modifications [...]
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Charts are an indispensable part of any data visualization work. People can grok visual representation of data easily than a textual variety. Today there are a huge number of free chart libraries available to display visualizations on websites. Below is a small list of some of the libraries available for displaying charts using php.
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There are three ways to access a website data. One is through a browser, the other is using a API (if the site provides one) and the last by parsing the web pages through code. The last one also known as Web Scraping is a technique of extracting information from websites using specially coded programs.
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HeidiSQL is an easy-to-use ide for web-developers using the popular MySQL-Database. It allows you to manage and browse your databases and tables from an intuitive Windows® interface. With a download size of less than 2Mb, it is quite lightweight and fast to load.
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MySQL Sidu is a FREE MySQL client which works via a web browser. Written in php (on surprise there!), MySQL Sidu is a simple and easy to use database tool. Sidu stands for Select Insert Delete Update. Of course Sidu can do more jobs than these. Many of you may already be using other MySQL [...]
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Code tuning is an essential part of programming. But most programmers would rather try to complete the project in hand then spend time optimizing a piece of code. A well tuned and optimized code block can speedup your application by an order of magnitude or even more. Many people confuse profiling with benchmarking. A profiler [...]
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