A Tech Discovery Blog on PHP, Ajax, Security and Social Media.
You’ve read a lot of PHP best practises articles and topics all over the internet and try your best at following them during your development. How about the worst practises in PHP development? There’s a nice article on the PHPDev Blog which tells you about a few practises (which I’m sure most of us haven [...]
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Alexander Veremyev, a Zend Framework team member has announced the latest release of the Zend Framework 1.9.1. This is the first maintenance release in the 1.9 series and has bug fixes for over 30 issues. You can view the full changelog for this release over at: http://framework.zend.com/changelog/1.9.1 You can download Zend Framework 1.9.1 at: http://framework.zend.com/download/latest
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Image by roland via Flickr Here’s a chance for you all to win a free license for Gravity, a native S60 Twitter client with a really slick interface. MyNokiaWorld is holding a contest to giveaway 4 licenses to Gravity. All you have to do is to tweet or blog about the contest or subscribe to [...]
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Here’s an article from Linux Magazine showing you how to install a development snapshot version of the latest PHP 6 build on your system. They also go on to give an overview on what’s new in PHP 6 and some of the code you’ll have to change in your current source to get it working [...]
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Stas Malyshev has written a good article over at Zend Developer Zone about the new intl – Internalization extension in PHP 5.3. Internationalization has been a major problem with web developers when developing sites which have to support multiple languages. The new extension eases the developer’s work drastically. Stas mentions in the article that the [...]
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I’ve always wanted to know how the various opensource search engines performed when running head to head with each other. I’ve personally not had the time nor patience to setup such a benchmark. Luckily Vik Singh has done just that and blogged the results of the benchmark. He’s benchmarked the latest versions of Lucene, sqlite, [...]
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If you’re looking for an easy way to output your data from a PHP script into a Excel file, you’ve got to check out this script MS-Excel Stream Handler which I came across at the PHP Classes site. What this script essentially does is to implement a stream handler interface to write Microsoft Excel spreadsheet [...]
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Here is a plugin for Gimp which gives you a “Save for Web” option in GIMP. This plugin gives you the option of preparing your images for the web by optimizing it, adding additional compression, stripping EXIF information from the images to reduce it’s size. You can preview the resultant image before you save your [...]
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Yesterday Nokia India had arranged for a blogger’s meet in Bangalore to familizarize us with the upcoming N97 mobile phone. The meet featured Axel Meyer, Nokia’s Global Design Head for Nokia Nseries, who took us through a presentation which showed what the Design team took into account while designing this phone. What I liked about [...]
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Google has brought out their Google Mobile App for Nokia S60 Phones. You can get the application by visiting m.google.com on your mobile browser. This application provides a shell for Google applications and services. When you start the app, you get a search screen, and the app detects your location to give you area [...]
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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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