Big Data: What is "Big Data"?
An overview of when datasets outgrow conventional databases and how Hadoop, HBase, Hive, and Whirr support distributed storage and analysis.
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PHP: Quick and dirty CLI tasks
A lightweight PHP pattern for organizing vanilla PHP or WordPress command-line tasks as static class methods dispatched through $argv.
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How setting SwiftMailer's SMTP timeout in Symfony can prevent Amazon SES connection timeout errors when a background job sends batched emails.
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An explanation of Bootstrap as a CSS framework, its reusable components and conventions, and when new, fast-moving teams should or should not use it.
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How CSS3 transforms and opacity can mask an HTML5 file input while preserving its clickable area and hand cursor for custom upload interfaces.
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