In a recent project, I’ve been using public/private key encryption to transmit data from a mobile application to an API, keeping sensitive information secure as a result. This tutorial explains how you can create your own keys, and then use them to encrypt or decrypt data using PHP and OpenSSL.
Encryption, PHP, Public / Private Keys, Security, TutorialFacebook has released the latest update to the Graph API, resulting in more drastic changes and deprecations to the platform. Released on July 8th 2015, the latest version of the API removes access to the user’s Notifications, Inbox and Stream and Groups.
API, Deprecation, Facebook, Facebook Graph APII’ve always found it frustrating that a platform like Trigger.io doesn’t support Google Analytics for tracking applications. So, I’ve decided to take things into my own hands, and have developed a very simple plugin to allow just that.
Github, JavaScript, Open Source, Plugin, Trigger.ioFacebook Graph API v2.3 is now available to use, adding new login permissions, a new debug mode for developers and updates to Real-time Updates. Along with it, more APIs are being depreciated towards the end of June 2015.
Facebook, Facebook Graph API, Facebook Graph API 2.3I’ve recently been using nodejs to build website scrapers quickly, and usually in less than 100 lines of code. This tutorial shows how you can easily create your own scraper using two nodejs modules: request and cheerio.
JavaScript, jQuery, NodeJS, ScrapingAs version v4.1 of the Facebook PHP SDK nears release (at time of writing), I though this would be a good time to explain how the new version works. Migrating your application from v4.0.x to v4.1.x will break your application.
Facebook, Facebook Graph API, Facebook PHP SDK 4.1, PHP, TutorialUsing the official Parse PHP SDK, it’s quite easy to upload a file to Parse. This tutorial covers how to use a simple HTML form and a few lines of PHP to upload a file.
File Upload, Parse, PHP, Tutorial
Customise the status bar of Android devices running Android 5.0 Lollipop using this plugin. You can customise the colour for all pages, with specific colours for Posts and Pages.
Android, Android 5.0 Lollipop, PHP, WordPress, WordPress PluginsIf you’re new to Android 5.0 Lollipop, you may have trouble finding your way around in the beginning as Google has made major changes to the OS, as well as removing some features. Here are just some of the things I’ve discovered.
Android, Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google Nexus 5