SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) has become a foundation for the most of the application that are developed today. A service oriented architecture is an architectural pattern which enables collection of services to communicate with external/internal parties to pass data or for services coordinating. Let’s start from what’s a service. What’s a Service/API A service is a function that is well-defined, self-contained, and does not depend on ...
Why? When To? Software Design Patterns. Interesting topic right? Software Design Patterns Explained Let’s 1st talk about software design patterns. Software design patterns can be defined as recurring solutions to common problems in software design. You might be wondering how does your application work without design patterns if this’s so important. The main point to understand is that if your application doesn’t contain ...
Why hybrid mobile application development is so awesome? Why everyone is talking about hybrid mobile applications today? Why does it matter so much? What are the frameworks available to develop a hybrid mobile application? If you are a web developer wondering about how to become a mobile app developer this is for you. In this article you will get the ...
How’s it going people? Everyone wants 100% secure applications but the problem is do 100% applications exist in the world? Answer is ‘Nope’. That’s bad but you can secure your application up to a certain extend by applying security. Hope you have read my last two articles on PHP Security. Article 1 & Article 2 where you can apply security at the ...
CKAN. In their words “the world’s leading open-source data portal platform”. Since you know about open data and how to use it let’s get right into CKAN. Oh oh! You don’t know about open data. Don’t worry! I got you covered. Read this blog post and you will get to know every thing you need to know about open data. Yeah ...
Hellow there folks! These days most of the web services are exposed as REST or SOAP. There could be a chance where you need to make a request from your command line rather than installing a tool such SOAPUI. Tools are really helpful but there are times where you can’t use tools. I’ll be using curl to make the request. ...
Hellow there PHP lovers or PHP hackers or whoever you are(happy-face). Today we are going to talk about PHP security. Yeah security. Interesting right? I know I know. Some of the stuff I mention below would be specifically applicable to PHP. But I’ll try to generalise as much as possible so you could apply them everywhere. In this blog post ...
Hi there Linux people! Today we are going to talk about the VIM editor. The VIM is a text-editor but not just a text-editor when you get to know it. The VIM editor is Based on the vi editor common to Unix-like systems. The VIM editor is a more feature rich extension of the VI editor. Best part is that the VIM editor is free. In other words ...
Why? When To? Software Design Patterns. Interesting topic right? Software Design Patterns Explained Let’s 1st talk about software design patterns. Software design patterns can be defined as recurring solutions to common problems in software design. You might be wondering how does your application work without design patterns if this’s so important. The main point to understand is that if your application doesn’t contain ...
rsync(remote sync) commonly found on Unix-like systems which is a remote/local file synchronisation utility where It uses an algorithm that minimises the amount of data copied by only moving the portions of files that have changed. Without beating around the bush let’s get our hands dirty. I found this link really interesting. Basic syntax and options of rsync rsync options ...
Apache Access Logs Centralising Apache logs can be useful in many scenarios. Let’s get the basics 1st. So Apache logs can be defined as In order to effectively manage a web server, it is necessary to get feedback about the activity and performance of the server as well as any problems that may be occuring. The Apache HTTP Server provides ...
What’s SSH & SSH Keys SSH A.K.A Secure Shell is used to make remote connections between computers to execute commands. A username and password is used for the authentication purpose when establishing the connection. If you have a very strong password, it’s almost 100% secure to use SSH since the data transmission is encrypted through SSH. But are you comfortable ...
Hey techies! How’s it going? I couldn’t share a blog post on unix for a while. So I thought of writing one for you guys and you are going to love it(wink-face). Do you know what we are going to talk about? Today we are going to talk about “Screen“(excited-face). The screen command works on both unix based operating systems ...
Introduction Today we are going to experience the power of the SSH(Secure Shell) command. Yes Linux. I recently wrote an article on X11 forwarding that allows to map your local computer’s GUI to server where SSH is used underneath. It’s time for you read it if you haven’t. To understand the today’s topic let’s 1st look at what’s tunnelling that’s ...
Why hybrid mobile application development is so awesome? Why everyone is talking about hybrid mobile applications today? Why does it matter so much? What are the frameworks available to develop a hybrid mobile application? If you are a web developer wondering about how to become a mobile app developer this is for you. In this article you will get the ...
Why PostgreSQL? The purpose of this article is to give you an idea about PostgreSQL. Most probably this will be an introduction for you. I will be providing a lot of links through out the article. Make sure to check those out . Let me start like this. I have been a MySQL fan for a long time & ...
Hello there everyone! What’s open data, Why open data? What’s CKAN? Today we are gonna go through all that. Yeah ALL that. You know open data is one of the most used buzzword in 2013 and I hope it will remain as it’s in 2014 too. Okay enough pep talk. Let’s divine into it. I know I know your 1st question ...
I’m a big fan of APIs (I even wrote an article on REST API Architecture – Best Practices) because in any given enterprise application in today’s modern world, the API is considered to be one of the key success factors in digital transformation of any business. When you have multiple APIs being exposed and being accessed by a number of entities, there has to ...
Hey PHP folks! How are you? Having a bad day? Are you hacked? Are you feeling unsafe from hackers? Don’t worry, I got you. Today are going to continue our PHP security post. Haven’t you read the part 1 of this blog post? If not I would like you to read it. There I have talked about data security, SQL injection, OS ...
Why PostgreSQL? The purpose of this article is to give you an idea about PostgreSQL. Most probably this will be an introduction for you. I will be providing a lot of links through out the article. Make sure to check those out . Let me start like this. I have been a MySQL fan for a long time & I ...
