Posts made in January, 2010

• Get lots of free content for Amazon Kindle

  General Stuff
  

  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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• Interesting Zend Webinars for January

  General Stuff
  

  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 [...]

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• Transcoding videos in Ubuntu using Handbrake

  Linux
  

  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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• PHP 5 Power Programming – Free Ebook

  PHP
  

  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 [...]

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• Using gURLChecker to check invalid links

  Linux
  

  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 [...]

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• Practical PHP Testing – Free Ebook

  PHP
  

  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 [...]

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