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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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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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Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
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Vinu Thomas is the editor of My Portable World and VT's Tech Blog. As a Technical Architect, he works on PHP and opensource technologies by day and is a mobile enthusiast and blogger. You can follow him on Twitter @vinuthomas and Google+ 
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