October 2008
5 posts
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What you need to know about Facebook Privacy
I got really concerned and felt I needed to write up some blog post especially after actually seeing the way some people used Facebook.
Social Network Services like Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, etc are great and I encourage them for networking, keeping in touch and so on and so forth but it starts becoming really bad when you can know what’s going on in the private lives of others.
My wake up...
“If all the Internet fraudsters in Nigeria and all the “yahoo boys” were working...”
– Temi Kolawole
Web server tweaking to improve web app performance...
If a web developer should aim at making his web application faster, this could mean getting a faster server, using caches, optimizing your code or database schema and so on and so forth.
Having an understanding of how web servers and web browsers work is an important skill to learn. For instance, few know about the cache management processes of web browsers that if factored into your...
Persistent Background PHP Scripts on Shared...
I find myself sometimes wanting to keep a php script running in the background may be so it can poll a database or provide some kind of service daemon. Sometimes, this script might be hosted on a shared hosting platform and I don’t have the ability to configure the script to run at system startup. The solution to this problem might be to create a cron entry to run the script. The problem...