Category Archives: web development

Download Images with PHP

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Stoimen

As it seems one possible solution while trying to download images with PHP is to write a “client” to do so. Will it be with cURL, Zend Framework or some other tool – it doesn’t matter. However one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, web development | Tagged Computing, CURL, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, PHP, PHP programming language, possible solution, Technology/Internet, zend framework | Leave a comment

JavaScript Objects Coding Style Reviewed

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Stoimen

JS Objects Once I posted about JavaScript object coding style. Back than I made the analogy with PHP array coding style. In breve it’s useful to format the arrays in PHP simply like that: $data = array( ‘key1′ => ‘value1′, … Continue reading →

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Diving into Node.js – A Long Polling Example

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Stoimen

Node.js vs. The World What is typical for most of the web servers is that they listen for requests and respond as quickly as possible on every one of them. In fact the speed of the response is one of … Continue reading →

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Diving into Node.js – Very First App

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Stoimen

What do I have till now? After Node.js is istalled, described in my previous post, I can simply run this command: stoimenpopov:~# node server.js and this will start the server with the code within server.js. But what’s the code of … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | Tagged ajax, API, Computer networking, Computing, http, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Internet protocols, javascript, linux, Localhost, Network architecture, Node.js, port While, server on nodejs, Server-side JavaScript, Technology/Internet, unix | 6 Comments

Diving into Node.js – Introduction & Installation

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Stoimen

Why I Need Something Like Node.js? First of all the use of some software is needed not because of itself, but because of the need of some specific functionality. In my case this was the need of real time news … Continue reading →

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