Posts in the "General Stuff" Category

  • Bangalore PHP Meetup April ’10

    Just a quick heads up in case you missed out on the announcement. The Bangalore PHP Meetup’s happening this month on the 24th. For a change, I’m not involved much in the organization of this event. Indus Khaithan took care of the venue arragements and Harsha MV’s taken up co-ordinating with the potential speakers and [...]

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  • The default Office Suite on Ubuntu is…

    Here’s another article from our Guest Blogger Dr. Abhishek Puri on Opera. You can read his previous article here and here Open Office has gone through various incarnations being heavily promoted by Sun. The best part is that it is a free open source software and be ported across different platforms. But that’s where the “good [...]

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  • Opera & the Freedom of Choice

    Here’s another article from our Guest Blogger Dr. Abhishek Puri on Opera. You can read his previous article here. Shifting to Linux is fraught with taking a decision in the unknown many a times. This was my feeling when I first pestered with a barrage of questions on the forums as a “n00b”. We are [...]

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  • On to Ubuntu 9.10 – real life experiences

    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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  • Get lots of free content for Amazon Kindle

    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

    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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  • Fixing the “Missed Schedule” problem in WordPress

    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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  • QT Mobility Contest for Mobile Developers

    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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  • 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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