Iono Review
by kschroeder |
2 comments | Friday, August 10, 2007
While PHP is often used as a programming language for custom written or open source applications that is not its only use. PHP can also be effectively used for commercial application distribution. There's a slight drawback to doing that, since PHP is an interpreted language. This means that the source code you wrote is effectively open to the world. Given that this is an application that you have spent considerable time and money developing you may not be inclined to allow others to see the code that you have written as this may make available intellectual property that you intend to keep secret. The way around this is a technique called obfuscation. What it does is take the source code and encodes it in a manner that makes it unreadable to humans. The code can then be safely distributed with your intellectual property intact. One of the applications that can be used to obfuscate and license your code is a combination of products called Iono and PHP Encoder by IonCube. Iono acts as a front end to your licensing through a shopping cart built into it and the PHP Encoder secures the licensing code without your application. Customers can create their own licenses, you can have resellers license it for you or you can restrict licensing to yourself alone.
Codemash Teaser: Caffeinated PHP
by kschroeder |
3 comments | Wednesday, January 3, 2007
PHP is a powerful programming language but it is also a specific programming language. It, specifically, builds web-enabled platforms for information transmission. But what about situations where deeper integration into the enterprise is required? Or situations where you need resource caching or persistence so-as to not roundhouse kick your backend servers into oblivion, ala Chuck Norris. The PHP Java Bridge gives you a method of extending PHP’s functionality without having to build a C-based PHP extension to handle your need.
PHP vs. X programming language
by kschroeder |
19 comments | Friday, December 29, 2006
Like Rodney Dangerfield, sometimes PHP just doesn’t get any respect. There are many reasons why people chose to use/not to use PHP, some of them are valid but sometimes the decision is based on FUD. Let’s take a look at some of the things people say about PHP that aren’t necessarily true.
Peter Goodman On "Observers and Dispatchers"
by kschroeder |
0 comments | Friday, August 25, 2006
Peter Goodman has posted an interesting little tutorial on his blog titled “Observers and Dispatchers”. Like the recently released “Snakes on a Plane” it deliveres exactly what you would expect. Except the tutorial is actually entertaining, from what I’ve heard, the movie isn’t. Come on on and I’ll give you the rundown on the tutorial. (You’ll have to waste your own money on the movie)
