Webhooks are automated messages sent from apps when something happens. They have a message—or payload—and are sent to a unique URL—essentially the app's phone number or address. Webhooks are almost always faster than polling, and require less work on your end. They're much like SMS notifications. Lire la suite

PostBin, a simple web service for testing and logging of the receival of WebHooks (HTTP POST requests). Lire la suite

Since blobs can store binary data, they can be used to store images or other multimedia files. For example, a photo album could be stored in a database using a blob data type for the images, and a string data type for the captions. Lire la suite

Python – Read blob object in python using wand library

BLOB stands for Binary Large OBject. A blob is a data type that can store binary data. This is different than most other data types used in databases, such as integers, floating point numbers, characters, and strings, which store letters and numbers. Lire la suite

A socket is a combination of port and IP address

A protocol is a standard set of rules for transferring data, such as UDP/IP and TCP/IP. An application program can specify a protocol only if more than one protocol is supported for this particular socket type in this domain. Each socket can have a specific protocol associated with it. Lire la suite

An Active Directory forest is the highest level of organization within Active Directory. Each forest shares a single database, a single global address list and a security boundary. By default, a user or administrator in one forest cannot access another forest. Lire la suite

Press Fn + F3 . This would press the actual F3 key, instead of your brightness key. Lire la suite

Dual-band routers operate on both the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz frequencies. To do so there are actually two separate radios in the router, one for each band. The 2.4Ghz band is the older of the two and has to share the band with other common devices such as cordless phones. Lire la suite

In addition 802.11ac is extremely efficient and it brings power savings compared to 802.11n, meaning it is ideal for mobile devices. As such, while 802.11ac products are only trickling out at present, it will turn into a tidal wave by early 2014. Lire la suite