Friday Links: Fitness^3
A roundup of Google Fit, Microsoft Health and Band, and Fitbit devices, covering activity tracking, health insights, notifications, GPS, and heart-rate monitoring.
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Symfony2: Outputting form checkboxes in a hierarchy
How to create a Symfony2 custom form type and Twig theme that render hierarchical permissions as nested checkboxes with parent-child behavior.
Read the postPHP: Using Gearman for a MapReduce inspired workflow
How PHP, Gearman, and Supervisor distribute web-scraping jobs across workers in a MapReduce-inspired workflow and measure performance gains.
Read the postAWS: Using Kinesis with PHP for real time stream processing
Using AWS Kinesis with PHP for real-time processing, including architecture choices and performance issues involving HTTP requests, SSL verification, batching, and consumers.
Read the postSymfony2: Using "request_matcher" for custom firewall rules
How Symfony2’s request_matcher service applies custom firewall rules based on URL parameters, preserving Basic Auth for APIs and cookie authentication for web apps.
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