After attending a training a few weeks ago, hosted by Google, I decided to write this article in order to share some of the most important things I learned during this event. The training was part of the relatively new Google Engage for Agencies program. If you’ve never heard of the Google Engage [...]
This story is about manipulating or consuming managed assemblies (AKA DLLs) in PHP, mostly (but not only) on Windows systems. Managed and Un-Managed Code First I would like to go a little bit further to explain what managed and un-managed code means. A managed component (which can be an .exe file, an ActiveX control, a [...]
There’s a time in every company’s life when rebranding is inevitable. Most of the times you want to target a different market, or simply to highlight a new focus of your business or a change in your products. Sometimes, an “it just looks old” is simply enough. There are no certain indicators for this, but [...]
Safe enough ? I would start by stating that the current article does not underline any vulnerability with the SSL protocol itself, but it shows how can a person be induced into error despite the high level of confidence and comfort that SSL provides. This type of exploit is known as Man In The Middle [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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