This assumes you have installed your LAMP stack using APT (the default LAMP stack in Ubuntu not xampp for linux). It has never got easier to install xdebug using APT compared to compiling it from source. If you don’t know what is xdebug, its uses and benefits, check out my post here and here. As [...]

As it’s commonly suggested, tweaking code while it still in development is foolhardy. If your code seems slow while it’s actually doing what it’s suppose to and right , the first is to measure its performance in actual values. It will just be a wasteful action to just try to tweak the code without these [...]

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start. XAMPP is good if you’re new to a LAMP Stack from scratch or if you don’t want get involved in all the hassles with building it [...]

This blog entry will explain how to encrypt a shell script on your linux or a Unix based system. Although there might be other ways to encrypt your
shell script I found this one the most easiest to use. We will encrypt the script using the shc utility. I have been using this utility since [...]