Debugging and Testing tools for PHP

This is a bookmark to an article on the above.

http://phpbuilder.com/columns/10-Testing-Debugging-Tools/Jason_Gilmore11172010.php3

Virus on FaceBook and MySpace

I just received a warning that there is a trojan worm is now spreading like wildfire on Facebook and MySpace. The name of the work is known as koobface.

It is designed to steal your info, invade your system and shut it down. In order to avoid it:

• do not open the link to Barack Obama Clinton Scandal. 
• Do not accept any friend request from SmartGirl15. 

I am not sure how accurate the warning is but better to safe then sorry.

How to uninstall Microsoft Choice Guard

Microsoft Choice Guard is automatically installed on your computer when you install Windows Live.  To uninstall Choice guard, follow the following steps (from the following discussion):


Microsoft Choice Guard

Instructions to uninstall Choice Guard

For Windows XP:

1) Start
2) Run
3) Copy the following line into the 'Open' field:
msiexec /x {8FFC5648-FAF8-43A3-BC8F-42BA1E275C4E}
4) OK

Choice Guard will now be uninstalled.

On Windows 7, use the following command:

MsiExec.exe /X{F0E12BBA-AD66-4022-A453-A1C8A0C4D570}

Performing a Find in Google Spreadsheet

You can write scripts for the various modules in Google Apps using JavaScript (just as you do scripts in Microsoft Office using VBScript).    I have not been able to perform a predefined method to perform a find.  This is a code that is provided by Henrique Abreu.  The discussion is found here.

The code is as follow:

function find(sheet,searchKey) {
  var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();
  for( var i in data )
    for( var j in data[i] )
      if( searchKey == data[i][j] )
        return sheet.getRange(parseInt(i)+1,parseInt(j)+1);
  return null;
}

To use the code, you can just call it as follow:

function usageExample() {
  //replace 1st occurence of "foo" with "bar"
  var range = find(SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(),"foo");
  if( range != null )
    range.setValue("bar");
}

HP Expert Day - Nov 10, 2010

From the following page.


Don't miss our first community Expert Day on the topic of Operations Management, which starts tomorrow at 8am Pacific Standard Time.  Simply NAVIGATE HERE and start asking your questions! 

Participating HP Experts will be identified by the HP Expert icon next to their names.


Afraid you'll forget about this great event tomorrow? Download the event to your Outlook calendar. Simply open the linked file and "save and close".


Spread the word!  Give your colleagues and friends this shortcut URL: http://ow.ly/31CWX

Expert Day is a 24-hour forum based event where you can log in and ask questions of HP Operations Management Experts who are ready to help you online.  

Topics appropriate for this Expert Day would include: 

• How to monitor different IT environments (heterogeneous, virtualized, private cloud, etc.)
• Best practices
• Product integrations
• Tips and tricks
• Using agents and agentless monitoring together
• Information on new products (Operations Manager 9, SiteScope 11, Operations Manager i9) 
• Product features
• Resources (requests for case studies, white papers, and collateral)

Portable Apps Suite

The following is a link to some portable applications that makes it easy for testing.

http://portableapps.com/suite

XML Editors

Found a pretty neat XML editor at http://www.exchangerxml.com/index.html but it is very confusing, it claims that there is a free version and a commercial version but I was unable to find the commercial version.  All the features indicated on the commercial is found in the version I downloaded but did not see a way to register.  This is a good editor since it also provides for XSLT editing.

Alternative ones without XSLT debugging capabilities are found in the following:

http://symbolclick.com/index.htm
http://free.editix.com/

Personally I still like XSLTMajic from Microsoft that was discontinued support severals years ago.  Managed to find the link.

Screen capture utility

Windows 7 comes with a built in screen capture utility unless you are using the started edition.  For those using earlier version of Windows you have to find your own.

The following is a good freeware to perform screen capture:

http://getgreenshot.org/

Previously, I was using Printkey but this one looks more stable.

Siteminder Tutorial

The following is a site which provides tutorial on Siteminder:

http://www.sitemindertutorials.com/2010/05/siteminder-tutorial.html