ProgrammableWeb now has a list of 1000 Web APIs

04Nov08

ProgrammableWeb now has a list of 1000 Web APIs. They crossed this milestone last week. They had started with 32 in summer of 2005.
Checkout the APIs neatly arranged/categorized at http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory
Here are some key stats from ProgrammableWeb, about 63% of the APIs use REST, 22% SOAP and remaining XML-RPC, Atom, JavaScript

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Finding and fixing memory issues using Valgrind with example of Apache+FastCGI web application

01Nov08

Code reviews and walkthrough help a lot in maintaining a tab on coding practice and allocation/freeing of memory in a application. But over a period of time an application grows with additional number of features being added over a period of time. So it’s always better to have an automated solution to find any memory [...]

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Tags: Apache, debugging, fastcgi, memcheck, valgrind