Presentation by Mattias Geniar on HTTP/2 (history, benefits, disadvantages) as given at a recent PHP Leuven Meetup. Not convinced by a presentation? Or want to see HTTP/2 in action? Visit the HTTP/2 Technology Demo and see the difference. The HTTP/2 Frequently Asked Questions is also worth a read.
Category Archives: Elsewhere
Fail them faster
GDS – Government Digital Services – recently reworked a few application forms they have. Instead of letting the user complete everything, and then – at the end – give a notice that they’re not eligible for some reason they’ve put a simple yet clear disclaimer at the very start of the completion process. We knew …
The Inner Circle of Europe
FBSimulatorControl – A Mac OS X library for managing and manipulating iOS Simulators
Just launched by Facebook: FBSimulatorControl, A Mac OS X library for managing, booting and interacting with multiple iOS Simulators simultaneously. FBSimulatorControl works by linking with the private DVTFoundation, CoreSimulator and DVTiPhoneSimulatorRemoteClient frameworks that are present inside the Xcode bundle. Doing this allows FBSimulatorControl to talk directly to the same APIs that Xcode and simctl do. …
Kids Playing Star Wars
Live-Action Real Life First Person Shooter
The Martian
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find …
Web Bluetooth API in Chrome
navigator.bluetooth.requestDevice({ filters: [{ services: [‘battery_service’] }] }) .then(device => { // Human-readable name of the device. console.log(device.name); // Indicates whether or not the device is paired with the system. console.log(device.paired); // Filtered UUIDs of GATT services the website origin has access to. console.log(device.uuids); // Attempts to connect to remote GATT Server. return device.connectGATT(); }) .then(server …
Crayon.css – Because colors have a name
PHP Markdown
use \Michelf\Markdown; $my_html = Markdown::defaultTransform($my_text); This is a library package that includes the PHP Markdown parser and its sibling PHP Markdown Extra with additional features. Originally it was a port to PHP of the Markdown tool written by John Gruber. Here’s how to get it via Composer: composer require michelf/php-markdown PHP Markdown →