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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 [...]

I had picked up a BSNL 3G connection a few weeks back hoping for a faster internet connectivity on the move on my N900. The N900 being a mobile computer, I’m able to do most of the work on that without having to boot up the computer. It’s also an advantage having a fast connectivity [...]

I was first introduced to this service from the folks over at Mobikwik when they sent me a email about their service. I actually used this when I needed to do a quick recharge of my BSNL and Tata Docomo connections while I was travelling. The service is pretty easy to use. All you need [...]

Google has released a Web Application Security Scanner over at Google Code. This can be used to scan you site for possible security issues which might be lurking around. Skipfish prepares an interactive site-map for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. This scanner is easy to setup on an [...]

I’ve been tinkering around with Python on the N900 and this one one phone hackers will love. You can make the phone do almost anything you want if you know a little bit of scripting. I picked up a bit of python to try making a call blocker which was missing for the N900, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]