Tech Chorus

Last Saturday, the Bangalore PHP User Group conducted a meeting. The venue was same as the last time, Microsoft office, Bangalore! The topic of the meeting was Framework Shootout. The frameworks represented were:

• Zend Framework

Do you want to quickly test some PHP code?

Are you learning PHP?

Are you teaching PHP?

Don't miss out the PHP CLI Interactive mode. You can invoke PHP interactive shell from the terminal

php -a

Example 1: Do you want to see the output of xmlrpc_encode_request()

php > echo xmlrpc_encode_request('myIPAddress', array('username','password'));
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>myIPAddress</methodName>
<params>
 <param>
  <value>
   <string>username</string>
  </value>

When you use a JavaScript framework, library or toolkit in production, you would be interested in improving the performance of the application by:

• Reducing the footprint of the JavaScript code by compressing it, removing comments, white spaces, etc
• Reducing the number of HTTP requests, especially in Ajax applications
• Removing documentation, tests and other project files to be productive with FTP, SCP and VCS operations

Welcome to Tech Chorus. In the coming days you will hear the software technology chorus chimed. The site will initially serve as community platform where we publish articles primarily about free and open source software technology. We would also love to publish information about specific FLOSS projects, web development and occasionally random topics. Sometimes code, sometimes a how to article. All content from LAMPComputing will be imported to this site soon.

Tech Chorus is also open to anyone interested in FLOSS projects and technologies. If you want to write here, want us to write on a specific topic or share ideas, just drop a line. The site is not only about free and open source software, but also about open standards and open computing technologies.

In about two to three weeks, we will open a discussion forum here.