28. February 2015

Reading up on IMAP specifications

Currently reading up on the IMAP protocol, as one of my customers is using a server without IMAP support compiled :)

I will be using a simple INBOX check for failed email notifications (sockets are your best friend). That will allow me to set a flag for every new user account that is still unconfirmed and used a broken email address for their registration. These accounts can than be verified manually :)

Happy socket = happy customer.

Btw, here is a nice piece of code to quickly parse the email header in PHP

$parsed  = array();
$blocks  = preg_split('/\n\n/', $response['data']);
$lines   = array();
$matches = array();
foreach ($blocks as $i => $block) {
    $parsed[$i] = array();
    $lines = preg_split('/\n(([\w.-]+)\: *((.*\n\s+.+)+|(.*(?:\n))|(.*))?)/',
                        $block, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
    foreach ($lines as $line) {
        if(preg_match('/^\n?([\w.-]+)\: *((.*\n\s+.+)+|(.*(?:\n))|(.*))?$/',
                      $line, $matches)) {
            $parsed[$i][$matches[1]] = preg_replace('/\n +/', ' ',
                                                    trim($matches[2]));
        }
    }
}

$parsed = array();

$blocks = preg_split('/\n\n/', $response['data']);

$lines = array();

$matches = array();

foreach ($blocks as $i => $block) {

$parsed[$i] = array();

$lines = preg_split('/\n(([\w.-]+)\: *((.*\n\s+.+)+|(.*(?:\n))|(.*))?)/',

$block, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);

foreach ($lines as $line) {

if(preg_match('/^\n?([\w.-]+)\: *((.*\n\s+.+)+|(.*(?:\n))|(.*))?$/',

$line, $matches)) {

$parsed[$i][$matches[1]] = preg_replace('/\n +/', ' ',

trim($matches[2]));

}

31. October 2014

Using Web RTC in your web application

web_rtc

IN A PERFECT WORLD

In a perfect world all current browsers would allow the usage of WebRTC natively, but that is as always not the case ;)

WHAT IS WEBRTC ?

“WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an API definition drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that supports browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without the need of either internal or external plugins.” – Wikipedia

Continue reading Using Web RTC in your web application

29. October 2014

Angry IP Scanner

“Angry IP scanner is a very fast IP address and port scanner.
It can scan IP addresses in any range as well as any of their ports. It is cross-platform and lightweight.”

Nice tool for network administrators to monitor and manage their networks !

http://angryip.org/

24. October 2014

Uncertain about EU Cookie Laws … check Cookiepedia

“Cookiepedia is all about cookies and online tracking. We categorise cookies and host domains to enable people to make informed online privacy choices.”

http://cookiepedia.co.uk/

17. October 2014

Checking GZIP compression of websites in the Terminal

Using WGET

wget --header='Accept-Encoding: gzip' -SO /dev/null http://www.domain.com

1

wget --header='Accept-Encoding: gzip' -SO /dev/null http://www.domain.com
Using CURL

curl -I -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' http://www.domain.com

1

curl -I -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' http://www.domain.com

1. September 2014

Git Auto Deployment with PHP

Doing Git / Bitbucket Deployment for most of my project these days. This is another compact solution, that should allow almost anyone to start using Git to distribute updates automatically.

Always nice to be able to go a step back fast ;)

Git Auto Deployment

His website is offline, but you can still reach it through the Web Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20131209120053/http://wpcopilot.net/git-auto-deployment/

20. June 2014

cdnjs: Cloud hosting for more than just popular javascript files

cdnjs

“Everyone loves the Google CDN right? Even Microsoft runs their own CDN. The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries. We host it all – JavaScript, CSS, SWF, images, etc!”

cdnjs

16. April 2014

List of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes in all languages

The GitHub repository from Saša Stamenković provides a nice list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.

Available formats are:

Text
JSON
YAML
XML
HTML
- Select
- Flags
CSV
SQL
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- SQL Server
PHP

Github

5. February 2014

PhantomJS – Full web stack / screen capture

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.

PhantomJS

11. December 2013