Saturday, July 11, 2015

Blockbuster Marketing: Content Marketing Lessons from Hollywood’s Mega-Earners - #infographic

Blockbuster Marketing: Content Marketing Lessons from Hollywood’s Mega-Earners - #infographic

"Each summer, people stand in line for movies they've been waiting to see for months. Through foreign markets, licensing, and streaming, blockbusters earn well beyond their box office debut. What can marketers learn from these mega-earners?"

Take a look at this infographic to find out, which comes courtesy of Marketo.

by Irfan Ahmad via Digital Information World

Caching Hat-trick: Zend Opcache, Etags and Query Caching

In this article, we will be looking at some of the common caching techniques in PHP: Opcache, Expires Headers and Query Caching in MySQL. We’ll look at additional approaches in part 2.

Abstract image with cache text

PHP’s Request Lifecycle

Before we move on, it’s important to understand PHP’s request lifecycle. What happens behind the scenes when you access a PHP file from the browser?

  1. A file is fetched from the file system - it doesn’t really matter if it has changed since the last request.
  2. Lexical analysis - the human-readable code is converted into something (tokens) that the parser can understand.
  3. Parsing - the machine-readable strings are analyzed for potential errors. This is like grammar-checking.
  4. Opcode Creation - the tokens that we got from step 2 are converted into machine executable code.
  5. Machine code execution - machine code is processed and then executed.

For a more in-depth explanation, check out this article on how PHP echos a Hello World.

All of those steps happen really quickly, and yet there is a lot of time and resources wasted on every request. That is because for every request for each PHP file on the server, the server has to go through all of them.

The caching techniques that we will be going through in these two articles help bypass steps 2, 3 and 4. That means less time and fewer resources wasted, leading to faster page load times for the user.

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by Wern Ancheta via SitePoint

Build a Custom WordPress User Flow — Part 2: New User Registration

Validate.js – Declarative Validation with Javascript

Validate.js provides a declarative way of validating javascript objects.

The goal of validate.js is to provide a cross framework and cross language way of validating data. The validation constraints can be declared in JSON and shared between clients and the server.


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Meerkat Enables Multi-User Streaming: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week Meerkat Cameo Allows Users to Take Over Streams: “Broadcasters can now invite viewers to take over their stream […]

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Full Screen Vertical Scroll : jQuery Plugin

Simple Full Screen Vertical Slider using CSS3 transitions followed up by a jQuery fallback. Bound events support mousewheel, click and drag, arrow keys and touch gestures.

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Y7K Digital Agency

Y7K is a digital agency creating online experiences for international clients. For our projects they collaborate with independent talents to create outstanding content.
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