This article is written by a friend of mine, Dr. Abhishek Puri. He’s a doctor who’s a technology freak on the side. He dabbles around with Open Source software and is a strong advocate for the Open Source community. Here is his experience with setting up Ubuntu 9.10 on his latest laptop.
My trusty Lenovo laptop [...]
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I’ve been using the Kindle ever since they started selling and shipping the international version. I find it a great device to carry around with all my favourite books on it. It also helps in cutting down the book shopping I usually indulge in when I’m at the airport. If you are looking at free [...]
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Here are some webinars from Zend which you may find interesting:
Webinar – PHP Development Best Practices: The Untold Story of Geekville
January 19, 2010 – 9:00 am PST – your computer via webex
Have you ever wondered how you could advance your PHP development? Have you considered using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), an Issue Tracker [...]
I just came across a great tool for transcoding videos in Ubuntu. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. They’ve also got Ubuntu installers which make it easy to install this available in a GUI and a commandline version. Using handbrake you can convert your DVDs [...]
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Here’s a free PHP Ebook from Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series. More about this book:
In this book, PHP 5’s co-creator and two leading PHP developers show you how to make the most of PHP 5’s industrial-strength enhancements in any project—no matter how large or complex. Their unique insights and realistic examples illuminate PHP 5’s new [...]
If you’re using Linux as your primary OS, here’s a useful too to check for broken links on your websites. gURLChecker is a simple tool to check for broken links on any website. It can work on a whole site, a single local page or a browser bookmarks file.
If you’re using Ubuntu, it’s quite easy [...]
If you’re new to testing in PHP, and were wondering how to create and run automated tests, here’s an ebook which will help you get the basics right.
Practical PHP Testing is an ebook which is a compilation of articles from Giorgio Sironi’s blog on Practical PHP testing.
This book takes you though the basics of PHPUnit [...]
Ever since the upgrade to Wordpress 2.9, I’ve been having a problem in the scheduled posts in Wordpress. Everytime I set a post to be scheduled in the future, it used to miss the scheduled time and never get posted. When I checked the status of these posts in the posts admin area, each of [...]
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XHProf is a heriarcical profiler for PHP originally developed by Facebook and then opensourced. The raw data collection component is implemented in C (as a PHP extension). The reporting/UI layer is all in PHP. It is capable of reporting function-level inclusive and exclusive wall times, memory usage, CPU times and number of calls for each [...]
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When I talk to developers about security in web development, I usually get the answer that the security is taken care by the systems team by securing the server and by using the https protocol. In reality that is just the tip of the iceberg on security. There’s much more you should do [...]
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Yep! RT @NischalShetty: Facebook connect and oauth are one of the most convenient things tht hve ever happended to an internet user! [vinuthomas]
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RT @mynokiaworld: [Post] Nokia N900: Connectivity, Browsing: Continuing with the N900 reviews, we move on to the... http://bit.ly/dnyXRP [vinuthomas]
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Way too busy today. [vinuthomas]
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New TV delivered at home - the delivery ppl are different from the installation ppl. And they don't come at the same time - how irritating! [vinuthomas]
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Is the end of Twitter here? http://bit.ly/dotfW7 [vinuthomas]
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Vacation plans all fried up. Looks like no rest for a while more. #fb [vinuthomas]
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February 6th |
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RT @Cargill0uiL Microsoft and Innovation « Creativity & Innovation (http://cli.gs/Xe9yq) [vinuthomas]
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Why do I have such bad luck with courier companies. They're returning the package which I shipped out yesterday for some wierd reason. [vinuthomas]
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RT @phpbangalore What FFMPEG-PHP can do and how to use the most out of it http://tinyurl.com/y9plbv7 [vinuthomas]
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Settling down for an afternoon of House MD Marathon sessions #fb [vinuthomas]
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Listened to Mermaids And Slaves - Paul Heaton.
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Published On to Ubuntu 9.10 – real life experiences.
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February 5th |
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Here's Rasmus telling us when to use (and not to use) facebook's HipHop for PHP - http://bit.ly/clvIPP #php #hiphop [vinuthomas]
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Is that true? Wierd move from them - RT @sizzler_chetan: WTF!! RT @madhumita: Airtel has started charging for calls to customer care? WTF!!! [vinuthomas]
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Vacuum your Firefox 3 by optimizing the sqlite databases it uses - http://bit.ly/cfxAsa!) #firefox #ubuntu [vinuthomas]
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Shared picsay image.
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Picked up a cool Gelaskin for the Nexusone. Wonder how long it'll take to reach here. [vinuthomas]
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Cool Seesmic for Android now supports multiple accounts. Now here's a strong contender for Twidroid. [vinuthomas]
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February 4th |
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RT @MobileNinja Idle screen, Idle screen... Ford got 20% click through rates on Idle Screen ads http://bit.ly/9BN8QE #mobile [vinuthomas]
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RT @MobileNinja: Idle screen, Idle screen... Ford got 20% click through rates on Idle Screen ads http://bit.ly/9BN8QE #mobile [vinuthomas]
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RT @timoreilly: Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch responds to Apple's attack on Flash for the #ipad: http://bit.ly/cnSTN7 As I said in http://bit.ly ... [vinuthomas]
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Same here. RT @devakishor Chrome is my default browser, but tweetdeck opens links on Firefox!! Is it only for me? [vinuthomas]
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trying to cancel a train ticket on @cleartrip and the transaction keeps timing out. [vinuthomas]
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tired out after a tummy crash - going for a quick nap before evening conf calls start. [vinuthomas]
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Updated to the new Multi-touch firmware on the Nexus One - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinut/4327069765/ [vinuthomas]
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Shared 2 photos.
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Force Update Your Nexus One’s Software to Enable Multitouch http://bit.ly/acpnYp [vinuthomas]
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HipHop for PHP - Speed up PHP by converting your code to C++ - Facebook's contribution to PHP opensource - http://bit.ly/91IZvA [vinuthomas]
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RT @0pensource: Facebook releases open source PHP tool (TechWorld) http://is.gd/7BJhI #php [vinuthomas]
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Shared Vacuum your Firefox 3.
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[Blog] Using gURLChecker to check invalid links: If you’re using Linux as your primary OS, here’s a useful too to ... http://bit.ly/94QQgn [vinuthomas]
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[Blog] PHP 5 Power Programming – Free Ebook: Here’s a free PHP Ebook from Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series. More a... http://bit.ly/cqC8IZ [vinuthomas]
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[Blog] Transcoding videos in Ubuntu using Handbrake: I just came across a great tool for transcoding videos in Ubu... http://bit.ly/bzlCpG [vinuthomas]
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[Blog] Interesting Zend Webinars for January: Here are some webinars from Zend which you may find interesting:
Web... http://bit.ly/9EfBvn [vinuthomas]
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[Blog] Get lots of free content for Amazon Kindle: I’ve been using the Kindle ever since they started selling and ... http://bit.ly/9yBNOJ [vinuthomas]
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Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch http://bit.ly/bxtnAo [vinuthomas]
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About time someone did this! - Google phasing out support for IE6 - http://bit.ly/cmbi6M [vinuthomas]
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