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App: Post and Retrieve HTTP Header Information
HTTP headers play a crucial role as the gatekeepers of valuable information exchanged between web browsers, servers, and APIs . These headers, part of the HTTP request and response messages, convey essential metadata about the nature of the request or…
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Vapi: Integrate, Scale, and Deploy Complex Voice Agents Without Complexity
Many businesses struggle to scale conversational experiences across voice channels. Whether it's routing customer calls, automating reminders, or generating outbound engagement, building reliable and intelligent voice agents has traditionally been expensive, time-consuming, and challenging to customize. Vapi Vapi is transforming…
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App: Measure Your Website’s Response Time with This Simple Metrics Tool
When a website loads slowly, it’s not always clear what’s to blame. Is it the DNS provider? The server itself? Or something in between? To help web professionals pinpoint where delays occur, I’ve published this tool on this site that measures…
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What PHP Extensions Should Your Host Provide for a High-Performance WordPress Site?
When choosing a WordPress host, knowing they support the latest PHP version or include caching is not enough. The true test of hosting quality often lies beneath the surface—in the PHP extensions that are enabled server-side. These extensions power everything…
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Unlocking AI Visibility: How Bing IndexNow Helps Brands Boost ChatGPT Discoverability
In October 2021, Microsoft Bing introduced a new protocol called IndexNow , designed to modernize how search engines discover and index web content. Rather than waiting for traditional web crawlers to check for updates periodically, IndexNow allows site owners to…
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Mailchimp: Streamlining Customer Communication with Transactional Emails (Formerly Mandrill)
Transactional emails are automated, one-to-one messages triggered by user actions or behaviors. Examples include welcome emails, password reset requests, order confirmations, order status updates, and shipping notifications. These emails are essential for maintaining customer communication and providing timely updates related…
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Google Bard: A Powerful AI Tool for Marketers, Sales Professionals, and Developers… With One Heck Of A Roadmap!
The other day, I was in a presentation for a large publishing company with whom I frequently write guest articles. One of the topics they covered was a new policy requiring the authors never to utilize artificial intelligence writing (…
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What Is An API? And Other Acronyms: REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, WSDL
When you utilize a browser, your browser makes requests from the client's server, and the server sends back data that your browser assembles and displays a web page with. But what if you just wanted your server or web page…
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PHP: Using Is.gd API to Shorten URL
Just read an article on the benefits and pitfalls of shortening URLs over at SEOmoz . I utilize the Is.gd API to do this: function doCurlRequest($url, $variable, $value) { $api = $url."?".$variable."=".$value; $session = curl_init(); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_URL, $api ...