If you work in scale, If you manage multiple applications in multiple environments, If you automate any tasks using Capistrano then try a handy solutions which will improve and extend your workbench.
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PULSAR REST API
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Fighting Scam with Tesseract OCR
Machine learning algorithms like SVM are great to tell apart legit messages from spam or scam. But what can you do if scammers are using images instead of plain text to bypass this system? Fortunately, there are a few open source OCR tools that you can use to read the text from an image. We’ve tested Tesseract OCR, with impressive results.
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Acceptance Tests with PhantomJS and PHP
Last month we investigated how to use headless browsers in NodeJS for running automated tests. For better integration with our workflows we now look into using PhantomJS with PHP to run acceptance tests.
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phpspec - Drive Emergent Design by Specification
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Test node process.exit with mochajs
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Tracking User Events in Google Analytics from the Server side
Google Analytics’ new Universal Analytics tracks User IDs and therefore allows to connect multiple sessions (even across devices) from the same user.
Additionally it’s now possible to collect data over GA’s new HTTP API Measurement Protocol. One can send POST requests to a URL to track page views, events, e-commerce etc.
This allows you to track events that happen independently of any user interaction!