Getting back to shared servers problems. I have some very time consuming scripts running through CRON – some nice web scrapping jobs. They are not processing-intense, but rather slow because of slow websites. All these jobs are really hard to divide in to separate scripts (another article), so one script should have no limits to [...]
Posts tagged ‘cron’
Prevent scripts from being killed
HTML filtering and XSS protection
If you have been programming websites long enough you would know that user input is first think to worry about when thinking about security. It’s really hard to decide what data is acceptable, especially when user has permission to insert HTML content through form.
For example, if you are developing CMS you need to make sure [...]
Parallel processes in PHP
When I was coding Ray-Tracer project for my Computer Science studies in university, I ran into using Haskell parallel map function (map calls function for all list elements). Ray-Tracer runs reflections, shadows, ray-casts, etc. detection for every single pixel in scene and since everything is mathematical calculations, it’s paralleling is almost trivial.
Parallel map functions does [...]







