Xdebug is a powerful debugging and profiling tool for php that allows you to find and fix errors faster by showing the entire stack trace and source code file and line number. If you want your php development to be error free you should use something like xdebug right from the beginning. A very useful… Read More »
wxWidgets is a cross platform gui library for developing native desktop apps. This quick tutorial shows you how to compile and install it on Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint
This tutorial shows how to code a simple tcp/ip socket server in python using low level socket api.
Output Buffering Output buffering is processing mechanism where the output being generated by a program is held in a place till its size reaches a limit or the generation is complete. Only after, will the output be send to its destination. In php for example, doing and echo generates some output. Now this output might… Read More »
Php set_time_limit Php has a function called set_time_limit which can be used to dynamically adjust the maximum execution time permitted to a script. It allows specifying the time in seconds and limits the script execution time to that many seconds. The set_time_limit function whenever called, effectively extends the script execution time by that many seconds…. Read More »
Database schemas Databases are present in almost all kinds of application that need to store information in some form or the other. Web applications like blogs, cms, social networking sites or business applications etc all have a database along with the code. The database design or schema determines how the tables and their relationships are… Read More »
Socket based chat application In our previous article on we learned about the basics of creating a socket server and client in python. In this post we are going to write a very simple chat application in python that is powered by sockets. The chat application we are going to make will be more like… Read More »
The telnet client is a simple commandline utility that is used to connect to socket servers and exchange text messages. Here is an example of how to use telnet to connect to google.com and fetch the homepage. $ telnet google.com 80 The above command will connect to google.com on port 80. $ telnet google.com 80… Read More »
ICMP Ping Flood A ping flood program sends a large of icmp packets to a remote host to flood the network and system resources on the target system. The target system keeps replying to the icmp packets and its system resources are consumed un-necessarily. In a previous article on we saw how to construct raw… Read More »
ICMP Ping Flood Icmp ping flood is a kind of DOS attack that can be performed on remote machines connected via a network. It involves sending a large number of ping echo requests (packets) to the target system such that it is not able to tackle so fast. So the result is that the host… Read More »