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Tweet Some coders are doing a living from selling php scripts. Nothing new here. But to protect themselves from piracy they need to encode the php code to prevent stealing, unauthorized usage and so on. This can be accomplished using various encoders, some strong , some weak that will give them a specific amount of security, depending on what each of them is doing, form simple obfuscation to byte encoding techniques. Two major players are Zend Guard and Ioncube encoder. If Zend has a...
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Tweet As I promised in the previous post I will show you how to add any script or program to run normally from command line to dock or desktop and run as any other application. For this we will use Platypus. Platypus “can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts. Supports shell scripts, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Expect, Tcl, AppleScript”. We will use today the shell script to start the synergy application presented in the...
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Tweet If you are a web developer you are forced to run multiple operating systems, to check your code and design in as many browsers as possible. Well, the main problem is the IE – as it always do strange things…. This can be done using a virtual machine, or multiple computers. The first case can be done using some software like VMware, VirtualBox os VirtualPC. The second case is when you have more than one computers. If you are like me – I have a G4 Mac and an HP...
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Tweet After searching through editors for Os X that can work as close as possible to Quanta – my former editor in linux before I switched to mac – and not founding anything close, or better said close to my habits – I finished choosing 3 editors – Coda, skEdit, and TextMate. Coda is nice but I miss auto-completion , skEdit does a really good job but I miss a codebrowser panel, and again the auto-completion. Well, now it comes TextMate. I wanted for it a...
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Tweet There’s been a long time since i posted, but i had a very limited time in last month. Meanwhile I managed to buy myself a mac – I always wanted one. So now Im in a kind of dilema. What tools to use for webdeveloping ? My area of expertise is PHP, Javascript – Mootools at most, xhtml, CSS, and some design. So, for the design part I chose CS2, for the server side I chose MAMP – for windows users is almost the same with WAMP, it installs php, apache with a mouse...
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