How to use locks in PHP cron jobs to avoid cron overlaps

December 28, 2009   -   PHP   -   41 comments

Cron jobs are hidden building blocks for most of the websites. They are generally used to process/aggregate data in the background. However as a website starts to grow and there is gigabytes of data to be processed by every cron job, chances are that our cron jobs might overlap and possibly corrupt our data. In [...]

Calendar with Auto-Notification : API and demo.

July 26, 2008   -   Web Development   -   8 comments

I was quite impressed with the Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar and Outlook implementation of the same and wondered how exactly is it done? What are the challenges? So I thought of making a clone of one of them and see if I am able to achieve the same level of perfection. I must say my [...]

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