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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 [...]
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- Python data sharing in the multiprocessing module
- Django Up In Your CRON
- PHP Forking to Concurrency with pcntl_fork()
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- jQuery 1.4 Released
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- jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released
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