Recently I decided to start playing with Firefox extensions, and I needed to create a DEV profile for myself. As usual I googled and found a good article on lifehacker by Gina Trapani, I read it. I followed the steps mentioned and I realized that it is not working. After some tinkering and guess work […]
CodeIgniter is the fastest PHP framework
Ekerete Akpan, from AVNet Labs, released the results of his small experiment to measure the performance of four PHP frameworks.He used requests/sec as a performance yardstick, what it tells is that number of request your webserver can handle, if you use one of these frameworks.And the result of all his test says that between Zend […]
PHP Sucks
It seems like their is a new Cool wave flowing in the developer community which involves finding reasons to say PHP sucks. Everyone worth his salt is trying to get ahead in finding new reasons to put it down. So I thought why not I compile some of the good articles from bunch of these […]
PHPCamp In Pune
A bunch of PHP enthusiast(including me) are organizing PHPCamp in Pune on 20th September 2008. What is PHPCamp? Well PHPCamp aims to be ad hoc gathering of PHP developers who are interested in talking and listening PHP. It also provides an opportunity for freshers/newbies who are starting out in the world of web development to […]
Firefox 3: Download Day Results
Finally Firefox managed to get 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours. This is when they were hoping for just 5 million. Above picture was taken by John Resig. Let’s see if Firefox 3 can get into the Guinness books of world record. By the way if you downloaded Firefox on download day then get your […]
Firefox Download Day Ends on 18th June
I can see many of you are disappointed that Firefox 3 downloads does not actually starts on 17th June. I am hearing people complaining about start time of the event. What most of you forgetting is that it is a 24 hours event. That means for most of the world it will actually end on […]
Reading/Parsing Excel Spreadsheet using PHP
This is second article in the series of common PHP problems that a beginner faces. You can check the first article Warning: header data already sent. In this tutorial we will see, how we can easily parse or read an Excel sheet and display the parsed data to user. Even though we are going to […]
FireFox 3 Release on 17th
Firefox 3 will be released on coming Tuesday, 17 june 2008. Check out the news on developer site. So what are you waiting for get ready, and if you have not yet pledged your support do so now and help set a world record .
Bloggers Lunch In Pune
A bunch of bloggers from pune met on saturday to talk about blogging over lunch at Green Park hotel. As always the event was organised by barcamp gang aka Tarun, Rohit and Priyank. Get more details from better bloggers Pune blogger’s lunch at green park by Priyank Pune blogger’s meet by Bhavya Bloggers Lunch […]
5 key skills of a successful web application developer
Most probably you will be knowing about all these skills already, it is common sense, still I have found so many developers who just know just one server side language(usually java or .net) and then they think themselves as superman/superwoman. In web application development, that is just one thing. You need to know about lot […]