Banglore PHP Users Meet up October ‘09
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 [...]
Read more →Simple Cloud API for Cross-Cloud Implementations
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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 aims at [...]
Fastrack with PHP on Windows
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 [...]
Read more →PHP worst practises
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 [...]
Read more →Zend Framework 1.9.1 released
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
Win a license for Gravity Twitter Client at mynokiaworld.com
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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 their [...]
Read more →Are you ready for PHP 6?
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 [...]
Read more →PHP 5.3 & Internationalization
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 [...]
Read more →A Benchmark of Opensource Search Engines
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, Xapian, [...]
Saving Data into Excel the Easy Way using PHP
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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The Hypocrisy of Apple’s Lawsuit against HTC http://bit.ly/94lhtU [vinuthomas]
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This is great news - Bharti doubles broadband speeds at no extra cost http://bit.ly/au8xWC [vinuthomas]
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Yesterday |
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+1 RT @achitnis: This is good stuff - yay for CC licensed music! http://bit.ly/9Vrxmx (via @sivers) [vinuthomas]
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IPL invades my twitter timeline. Time to stay off twitter for a while. [vinuthomas]
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Listened to Mandela Bay - Jonathan Butler.
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Listened to Here I Go Again - Whitesnake.
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Ok that explains it :) RT @derickr: PHP DNS runs again... no idea why, but a restart of the daemon fixed it. [vinuthomas]
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Can't access pear.php.net for some reason from from multiple locations. Can't install pear packages due to that. [vinuthomas]
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"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Donald Knuth [vinuthomas]
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March 17th |
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Shared 4 photos.
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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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March 16th |
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Listened to Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold.
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March 15th |
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Listened to Here Is Gone - Goo Goo Dolls.
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March 13th |
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Now for some unwind time.. Gonna be offline from now till sometime late monday #fb [vinuthomas]
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March 12th |
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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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March 11th |
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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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March 10th |
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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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