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Developing chrome extensions become much easier now with the Extensionizr a boilerplate for creating chrome extensions.Using this you can create a basic chrome extension with specific set of features based on your needs. It’s more like Initializr which is a boilerplate template for creating html5 websites

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Recently I Tried the ways to capture a webpage screenshot using php. There are many number of approaches to capture the screenshot but there are some difficulties with the default php functions and hence I concluded with the phantomjs JavaScript library to perform the screen capture function. I used php script  to trigger the phantomjs code

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Phantomjs is a webkit with javascript api which means using phantomjs we can load web pages emulating like a webkit based browser without any GUI. In simple words for understanding, Phantomjs can access and load webpages behaving like a normal browser.It can render webpages exactly same as browser which is the unique and foremost feature of phantomjs.Developers call this concept as headless webkit. Why Phantomjs? Page processing is often tedious or either incomplete in other technologies.Phantomjs offers the flexibility of page rendering without the actual user interface.Not just works on webpages it also can render html5 canvas and

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Amazon offers wide variety of services for developers  to create scalable applications.A web application is scalable if it allows more number of users without affecting performance and speed.The application server would need more number of CPU cycles ‘s if the number of simultaneous users increases and hence you need additional CPU resource. Amazon EC2 known as Elastic Compute cloud provides the cloud infrastructure for the web applications. Amazon’s AMI (Amazon Machine Image) or instance is a virtual machine on the cloud that provide the processing power for your web application.For example, Instagram – a popular photo sharing application uses the amazon’s services to provide the scalability

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Way2SMS is a popular free sms service in India that offers users to send SMS to mobile numbers using internet.The service is reliable and delivers the SMS in few seconds but there is no public API available for Way2sms. But Unofficially there is an API which communicates with Way2sms and most important thing is this API still works unlike many others

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