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Forum Nokia is launching Qt Mobility Contest, for which the grand prize is a paid trip to the upcoming Nokia Developer Summit that takes place in summer 2010 in the USA. To take part in this contest you have to create a working example of an application using QT and QT Mobility API. Don’t stop [...]
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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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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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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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Here’s a good set of slides Dmitry Baranovskiy on the HTML5 Canvas tag from one of his presentations. Canvas View more documents from Dmitry Baranovskiy.
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Last week I was searching the net for a program or application to move some of our .htaccess directives into Apache’s configuration files. The reason I was looking for this is to improve the performance of the site. When we have directives in the .htaccess file, the performance hit on Apache on when it serves [...]
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We got the final dates for the Bangalore PHP user’s meet. The Meet up’s happening on the last Saturday of this month – the 31st of October. We’ve already got more than 30 PHP’ers who have RSVP’ed that they’ll be attending this meet. We may be having a few people come in from Chennai also [...]
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We’re in the process of getting a meet organized for PHP professionals in Bangalore. The purpose of this meet is to share knowledge with the community, discuss issues you’re facing with others in the same field and help you network with other PHP professionals. This is not a one-off event, but we’re planning on making [...]
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tree from Stock Photography Zend has launched the Simple Cloud project which allows PHP developers to write Cloud based apps without having to bother about the different cloud based solutions available. This works like an abstraction layer for various cloud solutions like Amazon, Windows Azure, Rackspace Cloud Hosting and a few more. Initially this project [...]
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This article is the start of a series of articles on how PHP interoperates with other technologies. When people think of PHP, the first thing people think of is LAMP. But PHP is not limited to the run just under Apache, you can have PHP run under various configurations, including the command line. Here’s the [...]
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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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