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 [...]
Read more →PHP Profiling – XHProf
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 [...]
Read more →Secure web development, an after thought?
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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 do [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →Learn about the workings of the Zend Engine
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 [...]
Read more →Compress your serialize output using igbinary
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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 trying [...]
Read more →Forum Nokia Developer Conference ‘09
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 [...]
Read more →HTML5 Canvas slides
Here’s a good set of slides Dmitry Baranovskiy on the HTML5 Canvas tag from one of his presentations.
Canvas
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Move your .htaccess directives to httpd.conf
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 [...]
Read more →Bangalore PHP Users meet on October 31st
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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Do you want to help create a smartphone concept device of the future? Check outDesign by Community http://ow.ly/1njVy [vinuthomas]
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Gesture Search now available for Android 1.6 and worldwide handsets http://bit.ly/9pbq2K [vinuthomas]
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RT @dineshtantri: Bangalore K-Community round table on innovation & crowdsourcing on 24th March - http://bit.ly/c69CYJ #km #kmers #e20 ... [vinuthomas]
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RT @achitnis: Mobile Developer Conference, 27 March 2010, Hotel Royal Orchid, Bangalore, India http://devcon.momob.in (follow @mobdevcon ... [vinuthomas]
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Back online after a long "offline" weekend - it's great being offline for a few days. Should do it more often. #fb [vinuthomas]
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Listened to Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold.
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Listened to Here Is Gone - Goo Goo Dolls.
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Now for some unwind time.. Gonna be offline from now till sometime late monday #fb [vinuthomas]
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Listened to Say You Will - Foreigner.
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Love the punchline in this - RT @guardiantech: The demise of the music industry is visible everywhere but in the facts http://bit.ly/9ilGGG [vinuthomas]
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Everyone's got IPL fever at office. Glad I'm not a cricket fan :) [vinuthomas]
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Lol - thas's a good one you got Mak RT @RN42: http://moby.to/qf1it9 - Multitasking @raghukannan style [vinuthomas]
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I just rated @Issuu Mobile on Android Market and could win a Nexus One! http://bit.ly/a9QM1D [vinuthomas]
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Cool service- Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes 4 ppl who visit Google. - http://bit.ly/92EJFG #webdev [vinuthomas]
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Anyone have good recommendations for a PSD / Image -> Wordpress theme service? Need someone to create a theme from an design. [vinuthomas]
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RT @santoshp: RT @dhempe: Bangalore folks RSVP for IPL- http://twtvite.com/IPLBFT just Rs.499 for unlimited booze/starters & watch IPL i ... [vinuthomas]
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This is one lucky dude - Chennai student gets Rs 1.4 cr/year job in Seagate - http://bit.ly/bHIpzX [vinuthomas]
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Getting some simple processes in place needs a lot of patience... To listen to all forms of excuses. The most common is No Time! [vinuthomas]
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Learning some Python these days. Interesting language. Useful for programming / hacking stuff on the N900. :) [vinuthomas]
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Having a real late dinner back at home. [vinuthomas]
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RT @creativenerds: 25 Awesome Tips to Become a Successful Freelancer http://bit.ly/9u8q3z [vinuthomas]
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Google launches app store. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/10/google-app-store [vinuthomas]
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This is cool - just buy a Windows mobile and then run Ubuntu on it :) - Here's ubuntu running on a HTC Touch Pro2 - http://bit.ly/9IoioH [vinuthomas]
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Eagerly waiting for the long weekend. Just 2 more days to go. [vinuthomas]
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Wow! I'd love to get a home-theater system like this if I had $6 Million - http://bit.ly/9EiRLj [vinuthomas]
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That's cool.. Open standards adoption by a telco RT @rww: Japan's Largest Telco Goes OpenID http://bit.ly/cC80hL [vinuthomas]
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Why am I stuck behind slow moving maruthi 800s on the road tonight? [vinuthomas]
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Just realized next Tuesday is a holiday... yeah! [vinuthomas]
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A Cheaper, Dumber Google Nexus One For India? http://bit.ly/cnjEAp [vinuthomas]
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RT @mynokiaworld: Cool! Joikuspot for the Nokia N900's out. Now you can convert your N900 into an Wifi accesspoint - http://bit.ly/9vg1Ao [vinuthomas]
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Are these guys crazy? - Use open source? Then you're a pirate! http://bit.ly/bGTeD9 [vinuthomas]
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The history of MySQL AB http://bit.ly/c82RY9 [vinuthomas]
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Be wary of Google patents http://bit.ly/d5objX [vinuthomas]
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Color Scheme Inspiration – Spring http://bit.ly/c9I2qU [vinuthomas]
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