WHAT IS DSL?

A DSL modem connects your computer to a phone line in order to transmit digital data. If your computer already has an internal modem (called a voiceband modem), you can “dial-in” through your telephone landline. Otherwise, you’d need to purchase an external modem. Provider companies sometimes offer these at no charge with your subscription. Those usually connect to your USB port.

The speed at which a DSL modem sends and receives data varies from hundreds of Kilobits per second to many Megabits. Examples of DSL technologies include Asymmetric DSL (ASDL) and ISDN Digital Subscriber Line (IDSL).

ADVANTAGE

• You can access both the internet and your phone line at the same time
• Faster speed than dial-up
• Ability to choose between different connection speeds and pricing from various providers

DISADVANTAGE

• Receives data faster than it sends it
• Sometimes not available in remote areas
• The farther you are from the provider’s central location, the slower the transmission

WHAT IS CABLE?

A cable modem transmits digital data over existing cable television lines. They can either be internal or external. The speed at which it sends and receives data varies from just a few Megabits per second to many Megabits.

ADVANTAGE

• Performance isn’t based on distance from the provider’s central location
• Faster speed than dial-up and most often DSL

DISADVANTAGE

• You share the available bandwidth of a single cable line with others in your neighborhood. The more people using it at the same time, the slower the performance.
• Could be more costly than DSL
• Sometimes not available in remote areas

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It might have taken a while, but two weeks ago I finally got into GitHub. For those not familiar, GitHub is a site focused on the version control system Git, and allows. It’s not the only place that you can get hosted Git repositories from (e.g. Beanstalk), but it does have a much more open-source friendly environment. It’s no coincidence that their tagline is “Social Coding”.

As part of my orientation to GitHub, I wanted to contribute something to an existing project. As it turned out, Martin Bean’s Dribbble PHP wrapper was a brilliant candidate. Martin had already done asubstantial amount of work in getting the raw JSON data into a workable format. I decided to help out and add in support for comments, rebounds, and some updated examples. This tutorial is the finishing touch.

Dribble API in PHP

Dribbble has a nicely documented API. Unfortunately for some, it only documents the API’s output, which means that you’d have to do some work on your own to get it to working on a project. On the bright side, finding a library for your language is not hard. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through a couple examples using the Dribbble PHP project hosted on GitHub.

As part of my GitHub update, I included formatted example pages that cover most of the regular API activity. This includes displaying rebounds, comments, and a number of the preset feeds given by Dribbble. If you download the source files and look at the examples, getting started should be