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 | From Scott Orgera, your About Programming Editor The Thanksgiving leftovers are all gone, the long weekend is behind us, and it's time to get back to coding! December's first newsletter teaches you how to interact with both Facebook and Twitter through PHP, explains why data scientists are in high demand, shows you how to write awk commands and scripts in Linux, and demystifies the Ruby Garbage Collector. | |
Twitter and Facebook With PHP
Social media is very important to today's websites. In addition to your website, you may also be maintaining a Twitter account and a Facebook page for your users to stay in the loop. You may simply post on these medias when you have new content, or you may use them for little updates not worthy of a large section of your website but of interest to your users. Regardless of how you use Facebook and Twitter, you may want to know more about how you can get your PHP to interact with them.
| Ruby: Regular Expression Options
While many people think to learn the regular expression syntax inside and out, it's easy to forget about Regular Expression Options. These options, while not always earth shatteringly useful, can often vastly simplify your regular expressions.
| Data Scientists: The Hot Ticket in the Business World
About 90% of the world's data was generated over the last two years, according to Science Daily. As volume has increased, so too has the variety of big data and the need to manage it. Today, an organization may need to store and serve location-based information that is stored in multiple formats - semi-structured, unstructured, polymorphic - and collected from multiple applications and devices to deliver a superior product experience. Big data is as much a challenge as it is an opportunity for most organizations, and that's where data scientists enter the picture.
| Including External Files in PHP
You can include other files within your PHP files. This is great for when you want to reuse a block of code again and again. Just write the code once and include that file whenever you need it. You can do this using include ().
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