After trying for many years to maintain a personal blog, with many starts and stop, I have given up. I realized I don’t *want* to write personal thoughts on the web. Instead, I’ve been messing around with my own custom tumblelog scripts. I use delicious, Flickr, last.fm, and other services that I want to aggregate [...]
Data is the most fundamental component of today’s web applications. Scraping and combining data from multiple sources to enhance, re-calculate, and re-display is an everyday occurance. Scraping a list of URLs asynchronously is just about the slowest possible way to do it. Fortunately, PHP 5.2+, via its cURL multi_* functions, gives us a way of [...]
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