In the current Coronavirus pandemic situation, I’m staying at home, completely isolated, and got some time to write a blog article on it! I’m a thirty-seven years old guy having fifteen years of experience in the IT industry and currently, working in New Zealand for the past eight months. FYI, I’m not affected by the […]
Author: Supratim Roy
PHP Dependency Management Tool – Composer and Packagist
Composer is an application-level PHP dependency management tool. It will seamlessly install and update the packages that you declare as your PHP project’s dependencies. Composer pulls the latest packages from the PHP package repository, Packagist. However, it is not a package manager. Nils Adermann and Jordi Boggiano have developed the tool and first released it in March […]
Ubuntu 16.04 / Apache2 / NGINX / PHP7.0 FPM / MariaDB / Varnish
Using NGINX reverse proxy along with the Apache webserver improves the performance of the websites significantly! So, I decided to give it a try. I have configured a lot of webservers earlier with Apache and PHP or Lighttpd and PHP modules. However, I was doing this type of setup for the first time! I decided […]
How to generate backlinks to your website
If you have done a bit study on Search Engine Optimisation, you must have come across the term “backlinks”. Backlink has become one of the important factors in SEO along with authoritative content. If you have a website and you want it to rank in the search engine results, you should really consider how to […]
Bootstrap 4 Introduction – What’s New
Bootstrap is a well-known and essential platform for web developers and front-end developers. Currently, the latest version of Bootstrap is v3.3.6. The Bootstrap project has stepped into their fourth birthday on 19th August 2015 and on the same day they have announced the upcoming version of Bootstrap 4. Currently, it’s in the alpha stage and […]
HTTP Status Codes for RESTful APIs
HTTP status codes are the response codes supplied by the web servers against any HTTP request. These codes are 3-digit integer values where the first digit of the code specifies one of five classes of response. There are different series of HTTP status codes. Each status code series have their own status category and each […]
How to create a jQuery plugin – basic concepts
jQuery is a popular term known to the web developers and web designers. We use various jQuery plugins to serve different purpose and functionality of a website. Nowadays, lots of jQuery plugins are available on the internet for almost every functionality needed. You can easily find a required plugin here “http://plugins.jquery.com/“. Web developers and designers […]
Postfix configuration in ubuntu
Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent. It is the most suitable, easy to configure, and widely-used Sendmail programme for a dedicated web server. I’ve a dedicated server hosted by Digital Ocean and the server is configured with LAMP stack. Recently I needed an email with the blogpipers.com domain to verify the domain […]
PHP 7 – what’s new and feature spotlight
You might already know that PHP 7 is now a stable release. PHP 7 is a new major version, still it has very few backward incompatible changes. However, lots of functions have been deprecated. This is the most important version update for PHP since the release of PHP 5 in the year of 2004. Drastic performance […]
Why you should try Google Chrome Canary
Google Chrome Canary – Get on the bleeding edge of the web Google Chrome Canary is a likewise early dev channel of Google’s flagship browser Chrome. It is a frequently updated experimental build and has the newest of the new Chrome features. You may know that many software has multiple dev and beta releases before a stable […]