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When Google Protocol Buffers met ZeroMQ

warebot — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:56:10 +0000

Greetings coders!

This is a quick (very quick) tutorial on mixing up ZMQ and Google’s protocol buffers.
There’s been a lot of debate around the pros and cons of using protocol buffers vs another form of on the exchange format e.g Json; We will not be getting into that today (or ever).

So [...]

PHP – fsockopen & POST

warebot — Wed, 25 May 2011 01:53:23 +0000

Today’s tutorial is short but very sweet. When dealing with many of third party APIs or web services in general, you are pretty much required to either GET info or POST data, si?

So yes yes, you are probably chanting CUrl over there, but I’m an old schooler, and kinda like having a bit more [...]

Drupal 6 Rest Server – Allow argument passing to Views

warebot — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:16:41 +0000

Good morning WAREBOT’rs

Today we’ll be sharing how we were able to crack Drupal’s modules :

Services Rest Server Views Service

in order to allow argument passing to your endpoint API.

We will adding simple modifications to the following files:

RESTServer.inc – located in {path to your modules}/services/servers/rest_server/includes/RESTServer.inc

services_views.resource.inc (OPTIONAL) – located in {path to [...]

PHP – Fun with JSON

warebot — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:29:18 +0000

Today we will talk a little about JSON.

When it comes to Webservices communication, JSON is pretty much becoming the format of choice (the Rock Star! if i may) for many services/users. This preference is due to many reasons, mainly that it is lighter than it’s step sister (or brother) XML.

Let’s take this simple [...]

PHP – Associative arrays

warebot — Fri, 06 May 2011 22:14:39 +0000

Arrays are awesome. They are one of the easiest and most basic collection objects that you can use.

You probably know the basic form of an array. integer-index based:

array[0] = 'hello arrays!';

However you can also use more descriptive identifiers.
Say for example you want to create an array to represent a product, [...]

Twitter library – PHP

warebot — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:45:07 +0000

Twitter library – PHP

Download

You can use this library/class to communicate with the twitter api servers for:

Generating Tokens Authorizing Users Posting statuses

All OAuth work is built in. So all YOU have to worry about is your application!

Quick tutorial here

PHP – Save an object as a session variable?

warebot — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:28:12 +0000

Saving the state of an object to your session can be very useful, and can be accomplished by using a combination of the serialize/unserialize functions.

class.php

<?php class warebot { //class implementation function warebot(){} } ?>

class.php has our simple class definition/implementation.

page1.php

<?php session_start(); require_once('class.php'); $object = new warebot(); $_SESSION['object'] = serialize($object); ?>

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PHP Twitter API -with OAuth

warebot — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:44:32 +0000

If you have been looking for a simple twitter library in PHP that will take care of the dirty OAuth handshakes for you, then my friend, you have come to the right place!

Features:

Normalize your URL and prepare it to be signed Create your HMAC-SHA1 signature needed for OAuth Acquire request and access tokens, [...]

iOS SDK – Locating current (location) coordinates

warebot — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:59:06 +0000

If you are a noob to the iOS SDK and iPhone development, you have probably heard of “Location aware” apps or other terms that have gotten you interested in “Hmmm…how do I fetch my current location?”

With all the “Chek-in” functionalities and other API functionalities like local search (provided by Google, CitySearch, Yahoo, Bing and [...]

Objective-c: How to sort an array of objects

warebot — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:31:37 +0000

In this quick tutorial i will show you how to sort an array of custom/user-defined objects.
For this tutorial we will create a simple class called “state” and give it one field/property called “name”

Our Class interface: state.h @interface state : NSObject { NSString *name; } -(NSComparisonResult)compareByName:(state*)otherObject; @property(nonatomic,copy) NSString *name; @end

Our function compareByName [...]