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  Set PHP session timeout

There are many different discussions about PHP sessions. We may often face some weird issues while handling PHP sessions. Sometimes session is expired earlier than expected. Or sometimes the session is not expired. This introduces many confusions. Today we discuss how to set PHP session timeout correctly today. In php.ini, there are three key parameters which will affect the session timeout. session.gc_maxlifetime, session.gc_probability and session.gc_divisor. session.gc_maxlifetime defined the...

   PHP,session,timeout     2013-08-31 08:11:03

  Sales of phones with NFC capability increased by 300% in 2012

According to Sina Tech, Research firm Berg Insight latest report shows that the global NFC smartphone sales increased by 300% to 140 million units in 2012.The report said that the compound annual growth rate of NFC smartphones sales will reach 48.2% in next few years, and in 2017 the number of smartphones sold will reach 1 billion units.NFC is widely used in mobile phones began in 2011, In 2012, the top ten mobile phone manufacturers launched nearly 100 models of NFC mobile phones. In addition t...

   NFC,Apple,2012     2013-06-20 08:51:09

  Huawei phone with HarmonyOS installed is becoming real

In past few days, there is a photo of a Huawei phone with HarmonyOS installed appearing on the web. This is an engineering testing phone circulating inside Huawei according to the source.  This is the first time that a real phone with Huawei's own operating system HarmonyOS installed is being seen on the web. This indicates that it will not be that far for general public to be able to access the new Huawei self developed OS. From the photo, there are a few indications: This phone sample s...

   HUAWEI,HARMONYOS,P40     2020-05-19 08:23:48

  Cross platform portable class libraries and .net

What’s that happy little feature developers are admiring? Oh that’s Portable class libraries that have been chugging along, during their thing and delivering to the point results wherever used by developers. If a developer is not writing .net applications for multiple targets, then he likely hasn’t bumped into these libraries. However, developers who are writing .net apps and want these apps to run on every platform from watches to tablets to desktops to the cloud, they can ava...

   asp.net, Cross platform     2015-01-12 05:06:44

  RAM is the new disk...

Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the new tape. With the proliferation of "real-time" web applications and systems that require massive scalability, how are hardware and software relating to this meme? Tim Bray, in his discussions about grid computing before it became such a hot topic, pointed out how advances in hardware around RAM and networking were allowing for the creation...

   RAM,Flash,Memory,,Future,Disk     2011-08-12 07:34:27

  Privacy & Security What Is the Difference?

                       When we discuss the internet today, there are two terms that we frequently here: privacy and security. While you may think that these two terms mean the same thing and are thus interchangeable, this isn’t true. As such, you’ll want to take a moment to learn the difference between these two terms. Understanding the Difference Between Privacy and Security When you open a checking account you share your p...

   SECURITY,PRIVACY,CYBERSECURITY     2018-12-27 00:29:57

  Apple.com is down

UPDATE : The service is back now! Apple.com is now inaccessible. It shows below "Access denied" message on its official site. It is still unknown why the service is down. And there is no ETA on when the service will be back to normal. From the error message, some people think this happens because Apple uses Akamai's security product and the security policy in place is violated. It's basically a WAF. The big issue is it takes 45 minutes for changes to propagate through Akamai's network. So, you ...

   IPHONE 6S,IPHONE 6S PLUS,APPLE     2015-09-12 00:50:17

  Google releases Analytics real time API

According to Tech Crunch, Google finally released its Analytics real time API. Although this feature was launched two years ago, there was no convenient way for webmasters to adjust the data so that they can be viewed properly. Now developers can use the API to get what they want and utilize these data to do what they want to. Developers need to apply for using the API now. Once you get access to this API, then you can search your own real time data and utilize these data as you want to. For ex...

   Google Analytics,API,Real time     2013-08-02 00:05:56

  Be careful when running knife vault command

While using Chef, one would frequently use knife commands which are used to manage resources on the Chef server. One can list all nodes, data bags, vault items and many other stuff on the Chef server. In this post, we would cover one command which may need your attention when using it -- knife vault. On Chef server, one can store data to data bags which can be accessed by registered clients. These data bags usually store the data in plain text format. In some cases, one would need to store data ...

   KNIFE VAULT,KNIFE DATA BAG,CHEF-VAULT,CHEF     2017-08-19 00:26:54

  Instagram has more than 100 million users

On TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Instagram users is over $100 million.According to comScore data, Instagram traffic in July rose 38%, it becomes the 56th site in United States. And Instagram official said that the number of users was 80 million and over four billion photos uploaded to the server in July.Last week, Facebook formally completed the acquisition of Instagram, the final cost is $735 million. Zuckerberg says he wants to help the growth of the application, ...

   Facebook,Instagram,Users     2012-09-11 19:50:57

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