Tag: apps

Stress-test your PHP App with ApacheBench

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

This article was sponsored by New Relic. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make SitePoint possible! There’s no telling when your app might attract a throng of visitors at once – maybe it’s a Hacker News post that’s submitted at a specific second on a specific time of day (as posts there tend to work), maybe it was a particularly well placed Reddit post, and maybe it’s actually good and people noticed it, spreading it virally. Regardless of the reason, massive influxes of visitors are a double-edged sword: they get you what you always wanted â€“ a chance to prove your worth to a large chunk of the internet’s population but also often bring with them what you always …

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Stress-test your PHP App with ApacheBench

“VB Universal Windows App” series

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

This past week Lucian Wischik, who is great presenter if you ever get the chance to see him at a conference, released an awesome series on creating Universal Apps with one of my favorite programming languages, the Rodney Dangerfield of languages, Visual Basic.NET. No, lets not start a language comment war, please Here are download links for the “VB Universal Windows App” series: … Recently in April 2014, Microsoft announced Universal Windows Apps. I thought I’d take an old Silverlight paddle game and turn it into a VB Universal Windows App. Here’s how the finished game looks, on devices and in the stores: What is a Universal Windows App? A “universal Windows app” is a great end-user experience. It means the user of your app can buy …

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“VB Universal Windows App” series

Managing AppLocker in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8/8.1 (Part 1)

June 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you would like to be notified of when Deb Shinder releases the next part in this article series please sign up to our WindowSecurity.com Real-Time Article Update newsletter. Introduction AppLocker is a powerful but often overlooked tool for increasing security by restricting user access to applications and other executable files, scripts, Windows Installer files and Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs). AppLocker was first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7; it’s an outgrowth of the old Software Restriction Policies that was included in Windows Server 2003/2008 and Windows XP and Vista. AppLocker is similar to a superset of SRP, with expanded capabilities. In this multi-part article, we’ll discuss the evolution and features of AppLocker in Windows Server 2012 and how to deploy and manage …

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Managing AppLocker in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8/8.1 (Part 1)

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Ginger Page Wants to Improve Your Written English

June 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Ginger Software, an Isreali startup that focuses on language enhancement software, has released mobile, Windows and Web apps designed to make it easier to write English correctly. Available today, the Chrome extension, desktop download and mobile apps (Android and iOS) go beyond in-line spell checking to provide users with tools for instantly rephrasing certain words and options for contextual synonyms, translations or definitions – all of which can be very useful, even if English is your first language. In addition to providing these tools out-of-the-box, the company said its software can also learn a user’s writing style and modify suggestions and corrections to accommodate individual style. For the Windows app and Chrome extension, all you need to do is install the …

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Ginger Page Wants to Improve Your Written English

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