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RFC 6143 Remote Framebuffer Protocol

The “Remote Framebuffer Protocol”, which does exactly what you’d think it would. The fun part is that it’s even supported as a subprotocol under Websockets. REF: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6143 REF:...

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Server-Sent Events as an Alternative to Long-Polling and Websockets

“Server-Sent Events” (SSE) is the estranged cousin of AJAX and Websockets. It differs from AJAX in that you hold a connection open while you can receive intermittent messages. It differs from...

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Gossip

*Gossip Protocol: A gossip protocol is a style of computer-to-computer communication protocol inspired by the form of gossip seen in social networks. Modern distributed systems often use gossip...

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RAR Archive Embedded VM

It turns out that the RAR specification allows for the support of a virtual machine called “RarVM”. This allows you to actually embed custom filters into your RARs using a simple instruction set....

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Generating Signatures with 25519 Curves in Python

It’s not very often that you need to do encryption in pure Python. Obviously, you’d want to have this functionality off-loaded to C-routines whenever possible. However, in some situations, often when...

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Unix Signals and Their Integers

I always find that this information is too far buried in the include files or requires too many Google searches. So, they’re now printed here both for your convenience and mine. No doubt that some of...

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Open Health APIs with SMART on FHIR

SMART on FHIR is an initiative to create open-standard health APIs (SMART) on open-standard health data-formats (FHIR). Here is a tutorial with general SMART/FHIR notes and a sample project to query...

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