Preventing SSL session exploits

Preventing SSL session exploits

SSL certificates

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SSL certificates

What is SSL? SSL is a protocol, not a HTTP extension, not a digital certificate nor an encryption method. As it finds itself at the TCP layer it can be employed for other application protocols than HTTP (i.e FTP, SMTP, etc). SSL is the predecessor of  Transport Layer Security (TSL) and although they do the [...]

Ditch expensive SEO tools – Use free APIs

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Ditch expensive SEO tools – Use free APIs

Why the need for SEO tools? Using tools, in general, for automating tedious tasks is an idealistic principle in a perfect world. And why not use them – tools make our lives easier by removing the necessity to perform daunting, repetitive tasks. What seasoned SEO wouldn’t give a small fortune for an all-in-one tool that [...]

How to find a really special deal for this winter

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How to find a really special deal for this winter

Since it’s the winter holidays season and we’re all about travelling, I thought today we could have a close look at HotelPeeps.com, a travel concept meant to help you find the best accommodation options for worldwide destinations and save up to 75% for your next trip. What’s different about HotelPeeps? HotelPeeps has two special features [...]

Parallel processing with PHP and Gearman

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Parallel processing with PHP and Gearman

Some background first Often you come to a point where you need to process data in a non-blocking fashion and in multiple threads at once. A solution for doing this is Gearman that we also used in one of our recent projects. This specific project contains a collection of RSS feeds (a few thousand items) that [...]

Zitec Hack Day&Night 2011

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Zitec Hack Day&Night 2011

What is Zitec Hack? We’ve been thinking about making this happen for quite some time. We were looking for an event that would allow the Zitec team to spend some time together outside the work hours, in order to come up with new and fresh ideas and implement them, to discover and use new technologies, [...]

Zitec Hack Day&Night 2011 – The Apps

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Zitec Hack Day&Night 2011 – The Apps

Some of you might know we’ve been planning this internal hack event for some time now. We’ve had some rough moments putting together all the pieces for a real hack event like this, we’ve been through thick and thin but what the heck, a couple of RedBulls later and we’re here to tell the story [...]

The day before the hack. ZiHack!

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The day before the hack. ZiHack!

Hello, world! Today is the day before the hack. ZiHack! We’re planning a day&night hack here, at the Zitec headquarters starting tomorow, at about 10 am. It all should last for about 24h, enough for our 4 teams to have lots of fun and implement their ideas. Meet the Teams Gabriel, Ionut and Lucian call [...]

The Yahoo! Login Page Creative Competition

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The Yahoo! Login Page Creative Competition

  The Zitec Design Team participates in The Yahoo! Login Page Creative Competition. Here are our personal visions about what we would like to see while logging in to Yahoo !Mail. Yahoo! Login Page – by Zitec         Check out all the creations and vote for your favorites here »

Drupal Internship v2.0 @Zitec is waiting for applicants

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Drupal Internship v2.0 @Zitec is waiting for applicants

A new challenge Due to the success of our first internship organized this year at Zitec, we decided to challenge you again to learn PHP Drupal web technology and ultimately to become part of our enthusiastic team. Our Drupal development team has increased by two members in 2011 and we plan to expand it next [...]

For those about to travel

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For those about to travel

For those of you who don’t know it yet, HotelPeeps is a concept (check out the HotelPeeps site and the Facebook application) dedicated to those who love to travel. And when I say travel, I mean big-savings-travel-style! HotelPeeps has two main features – Price Trends and Special Hotel Deals – that will help you find [...]