Posts made in November, 2009

  • Learn about the workings of the Zend Engine

    General Stuff

    Over at his blog, Abhinav Singh shows how to use the following extensions to learn more about the internal working of the Zend Engine which powers PHP: Tokenizer: The tokenizer functions provide an interface to the PHP tokenizer embedded in the Zend Engine. Using these functions you may write your own PHP source analyzing or [...]

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  • Compress your serialize output using igbinary

    PHP
    Compress your serialize output using igbinary

    Zipped folder icon from RF Stock Images Igbinary is a  replacement for the standard PHP serializer. While the PHP serializer uses a texual format to represent the data in the serialized version, igbinary uses a binary format which is compact. This helps in brining down the storage size of the serialized data. This helps while [...]

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  • Forum Nokia Developer Conference ’09

    General Stuff

    If you’re into mobile development, you should head out to this event, the Nokia Developer Convference ’09. It’s gonna be held at Taj Residency in Bangalore on the 7th of December. Momo Bangalore along with Forum Nokia are having a tweetup tomorrow, so if you’re interested, join in http://twtvite.com/mm3jqk. I’m going for both, so let’s [...]

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