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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 [...]

Here’s a good set of slides Dmitry Baranovskiy on the HTML5 Canvas tag from one of his presentations. Canvas View more documents from Dmitry Baranovskiy.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

tree from Stock Photography 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]