10 Open Source Tools For Building Scalable Web Applications!

When you're designing a web application, scalability and performance are very important. Every developer must take these two steps into consideration before building their application. To do this effectively, you need the best tools. Here are 10 of the most popular ones.

1. Apache HTTP Server: Extensible, fast and highly scalable. These are the qualities of the Apache HTTP server that make it immensely popular. Of course, there are other features too.

2. Tomcat: This open source software holds configuration and management tool. While the Apache Tomcat tool is an implementation of Java, it can also be configured using configuration files from XML. You can use it to implement JSP along with Java servlet specifications.

3. Modsecurity: This is a web application firewall that can be embedded into the web server infrastructure. It is also amongst the top available open source WAF solutions.

4. Memcached: This is an open source distributed caching system that is generic in nature. It has a simple design and delivers very good performance.

5. Varnish: This is a web application accelerator or HTTP reverse proxy. It is a very high speed software that can speed up the process delivery immensely.

14 Tips & Tricks To Get More Out Of Google Drive

There are many cloud storage services out there, one of which is Google Drive. We’ve pitted it against Dropbox and SkyDrive, another two crowd favorites and each cloud storage service have their strengths and limitations that would cater to a wide range of customer needs. But if you have decided on Google Drive, here are some handy tips to help you work better with them.
                                          The good thing about Google Drive is that it’s linked to your Gmail account and of course, the 5 GB free storage space. It also supports basic document editing through web browsers. But we have found 15 more tips and tricks that to get more out of Google Drive.
    

Attach files directly to your mail.

1. Attach Google Drive Files On Gmail

Because Google Drive is linked to your Google account, you can attach files stored in Google Drive directly to your Gmail.
Unlike traditional attachments where you first have to upload an attachment, attaching a file through Google Drive does not require you to re-upload the file. The filesize limit does not apply since a link is given for the email receiver to download.

10 Mistakes People Often Make On Facebook!

Social networking is at the core of everyone's lives today. There is a lot of talk about what to do and what not to do. But there are some common mistakes that people make on the website, which often even result in hilarious stories. Here are 10 of the most common ones!
                                                          

1. Too many petitions for causes: It is very good to be concerned about social and other just causes, but that doesn’t mean you can flood other’s timelines. Post it as your own status if you must, it gives others the option to decide whether they want to read it or not. 

2. Updating status messages about things you did when you were under the influence of alcohol: An US teen got arrested after he posted a status message about driving drunk. His status said, “Driving drunk…classic ;) but to whoever’s vehicle I hit I am sorry. :P.” Not only is it uncool, it is often of no consequence to anyone but you.

3. Photos of you as a kid on your profile picture: Make an album, post those pictures to that, share that album, make it public if you want, but don’t make it your profile picture. Many or most of your friends didn’t see you when you were that young. A recent profile picture is easier for them to relate too and doesn’t leave them confused amongst all the posts showing on their News Feeds.