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• WinPHP Content – Win cool stuff with your Apps

  Programming
  

  Here’s a contest for all PHP developers and enthusiasts in India. If you’ve got some cool apps written in PHP, all you need to do is make showcase it running on Windows and you can win some cool swag. The WinPHP contest details and how to enter is available at area91.in. Register right away and [...]

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• Rethink your Mobile Web Strategy

  Web Development
  

  Here’s an excellent presentation, which mobile web developers should look at. It goes beyond the iPhone and iPad hype which has taken the mobile development community by storm, and rethink on how you should be doing mobile websites. A good read for both experienced and beginners to mobile web development. You’ll need to view it [...]

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• Some Cool HTML5 Demos to check out.

  HTML5
  

  Here are some HTML5 experiments and tools which are amazing. If you want to view the actual demos in HTML5 glory, use Google Chrome or Safari. If you’re not yet using a HTML5 enabled browser, I’ve added videos which show you the demo of those sites as well. Link: HTML5 Audio and Canvas Experiments Link: [...]

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• Google Instant – Search while you type

  Services
  

  According to the Official Google Blog, they’ve started rolling out Google Instant, which is a new way to search, giving faster results for what you’re searching for. Instead of just getting the Google Suggest when you type in, you start getting search results which keep changing as you keep typing in your search query. It [...]

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• Form Magic in HTML5

  HTML5
  

  Forms are one area in HTML 5 which has got a major overhaul. Some of the tasks which required a fair bit of Javascript to achieve in HTML4 become relatively easier tasks in HTML5. Be warned that since HTML5 is still not finalized, browser implementation of some of the features may take a while to [...]

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• Cool Stuff – Icons of the Web

  General Stuff
  

  The nmap team put together this image by retrieving the favicon images from the top 288,945 sites (according to Alexa Ranking) and composing the image. The more popular the site is, the bigger the icon in the image. As you can see Google’s the biggest of the lot. You can take a look at an [...]

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• Getting back to Posterous

  General Stuff
  

  It’s been quite a while since my first post on Posterous. Just got the urge today to revive the account and start putting up short posts here. So posts which are too long for Twitter and too short for my blogs will end up here. If you’re interested in that head over to randomstuff.vinuthomas.com to [...]

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• HTML5 in brief – Getting Started

  HTML5
  

  If you’ve been hearing about the buzz about HTML5 and what it is – here’s a brief post and ways to get to know HTML5 better. HTML5 is the latest version which newer HTML and XHTML documents should confirm with. This version of HTML aims at simplifying and overcome issues with the older HTML4 presented. The first [...]

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• mysqlind_qc: Client Side Caching for MySQL extensions for PHP

  Databases
  

  Here’s something in the making, a PHP extension which caches MySQL queries irrespective of the extension being used. It’s a plugin for mysqlind, the native MySQL driver for PHP called mysqlind_qc. This currently requires PHP 5.3.3-dev which is still in development.

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• Free Ebook on the Zend Framework

  PHP
  

  Here’s a very good e-book on the Zend Framework called Zend Framework: Surviving The Deep End by Pádraic Brady. You can access this book from it’s site at www.survivethedeepend.com. It’s not yet available in print or download, but the author does mention that there’s a print book coming out in the near future. Here’s a [...]

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