PHP Obfuscator Roundup

This is a roundup of the available PHP Obfuscators both free and commercial. You will find a wide range in pricing (free to $600) and options available on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

If you are unfamiliar with what an obfuscator is, here is Wikipedia's definition:

Obfuscated code is source or machine code that has been made difficult to understand. Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conceal its purpose (a form of security through obscurity), to deter reverse engineering, or as a puzzle or recreational challenge for readers. Programs known as obfuscators transform human-readable code into obfuscated code using various techniques.

If there are additional obfuscators not covered here, please post a comment or submit it.

Commercial PHP Obfuscators

ByteScrambler
With this encoder you can make your PHP scripts unreadable for other people but they will still work the same way on your server. This is handy when you want to give someone a PHP script but you don't want them to view the source code.
Platforms: Any
Free Trial: No
Price: $6.00

ionCube PHP Encoder
The ionCube PHP Encoder makes it easy to protect your PHP 4 & 5 source code and other files from easy observation, theft and change. With optional PHP licensing features built in as well, licensing PHP scripts to control where your code runs is easy too, and you can even give your files a time expiry!
Platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and Window
Free Trial: Yes
Price: Starting at $199

Nu-Coder
Nu-Coder converts the source code of PHP Script into compiled PHP bytecodes for both accelerated runtime performance and maximum security. Nu-Coder's License Manager provides the second layer of protection and gives you the flexibility to manage the distribution of your PHP applications.
Platforms: Windows
Free Trial: Yes
Price: $149.99

Obfusc
Replaces variables, functions, classes, members, constants names from PHP scripts with nonsense names and obscure strings, removes comments and white spaces without affecting functionality.
Platforms: Windows (requires .NET 2.0 Runtime)
Free Trial: Yes
Price: 99 Euro

phpSHIELD
phpSHIELD converts PHP source code into unreadable bytecode, providing php script protection.
Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
Free Trial: 7-Day Trial
Price: $75

SourceCop for PHP
SourceCop for PHP encrypts your PHP code using a special encryption method. This encryption makes it almost impossible for a human to understand. In addition, SourceCop can also restrict your code to run on a server with a specified IP address or expire on a specified date.
Platforms: Windows
Free Trial: Yes
Price: $49.99

Sourceguardian PHP Encoder
The SourceGuardian for PHP Encoder protects PHP scripts by compiling PHP source code into a bytecode format and this is followed by encryption. This protects your scripts from reverse engineering.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Free Trial: Yes
Price: $199

Thicket Obfuscator for PHP
The PHP Obfuscator tool scrambles PHP source code to make it very difficult to understand or reverse-engineer (example). This provides significant protection for source code intellectual property that must be hosted on a website or shipped to a customer.
Platforms: ???
Free Trial: Yes
Price: $200.00

Zend Guard
As software vendors write more and more commercial applications in PHP it is critical that their intellectual property (all their hard work) is protected. With more applications providing evaluation copies and electronic downloads it is an even more complicated to insure that they are being distributed securely, whether free, for evaluation or for commercial sale. Zend Guard (formerly Zend Encoder) protects your applications from reverse engineering and unauthorized customization by providing encoding and obfuscation. It further protects from unlicensed use and redistribution by providing comprehensive licensing support. This combined functionality makes software distribution worry free.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, Linux x86
Free Trial: Yes
Price: $600.00

Free PHP Obfuscators

Code Eclipse
Code Eclipse is a PHP obfuscator. It turns normal, easy to read PHP code into gibberish, with little to no loss of speed and no loss of compatibility.
Platforms: Web Based
Price: Free

PHP Obfuscator
Our PHP obfuscator application encodes and obfuscates PHP code to make the output difficult to reverse engineer. The application requires no pre-modifications to your code and no additional components on your server. This product allows for encoding of functions, variables and the removal of whitespace.
Platforms: Windows
Price: Free

PHP Obfuscator
A basic PHP obfuscator written in C# for .NET 2.0.
Platforms: Windows (requires .NET 2.0)
Price: Free (Open Source)
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Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine - Free Preview

Understanding the internals of storage in SQL Server helps database developers and administrators to better create, maintain, and mine information from enterprise data. This practical, hands-on book focuses on the SQL Server 2005 Storage Engine and delves deep into the structures used for storing data, including files, tables, indexes, and data types. Topics also include security details, with coverage of the new SQL Server 2005 security model, and data protection through the backup and restore algorithms. With pragmatic advice, best practices, extensive code samples, and table examples, developers and database administrators will find the guidance they need to better understand how to build powerful, efficient databases.

Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine is available at Amazon.com.


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Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference - Free Preview

Build your expertise as you move beyond the basics—and delve into the essential topics of programming with ADO.NET 2.0. This comprehensive reference offers expert guidance, hands-on instruction, and code samples in Microsoft Visual C#® and Visual Basic® to help advance your mastery of developing database applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.

Programming Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference is available at Amazon.com.

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Nearly 1,000 New Developers Flock to Appcelerator After Company Announces Support for Apple's iPad

Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile and desktop applications using web technologies, announced today that nearly 1,000 new developers signed up after the company announced that its flagship cross-platform product, Appcelerator Titanium™, would support Apple's iPad starting in February. Titanium enables web developers to use industry-standard, open-source Web technologies such as Javascript, HTML, and CSS to quickly build rich, fully native applications that run on the iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, Macintosh, and Linux platforms from a single code base.

Appcelerator will begin allowing developers to create iPad applications in an upcoming Titanium beta release in February. Developers can download Titanium today from www.appcelerator.com.

In demonstrating its support for the new iPad, Appcelerator said that it had successfully tested Titanium's comprehensive test suite application "Kitchen Sink" on the iPad. In a statement via Twitter on Wednesday, Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, tweeted: "Apple iPad simulator running Appcelerator Titanium Kitchen Sink 0.9 http://bit.ly/9R3VaR ." The company anticipates that Titanium-built iPhone applications will be compatible with Apple's iPad out of the box.

Although Apple (and Appcelerator) will support direct application porting from the iPhone to the iPad, Appcelerator's recently released report, The iPad App Wave, shows that developers are looking forward to the unique features of the device. For example this would include:

- Multi-touch gestures and networking that will give rise to new ways to share and interact with media or learning applications.
- Business applications that will benefit from better ways to view and analyze data on the go.
- Social networking applications that will tie location together with richer communication interfaces.

More insight and analysis of developer opinions can be viewed in the full report, available here: www.appcelerator.com/tabletappwave.

"Successful iPad applications that really stand apart will take advantage of the new user interface and other native features that make the device distinct from the iPhone and Mac," noted Haynie. "Applications in the media, entertainment, business, social networking, and education spaces will particularly benefit from the iPad's enhanced user experience capabilities, and we plan to bundle all of that native functionality into Titanium."

About Appcelerator
Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company's flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator's customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.


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Import and Export data to Excel files with New Release of LibXL 2.3.1

Many developers meet issue for import/export data from theirs applications to Excel files. Usually they use complex OLE automation and depend on installed Microsoft Excel. This library gives alternative solution - reading and writing XLS files directly. Furthermore, the library allows to use prepared xls-files as templates - for example to edit only some values.

LibXL is supplied as dynamic library (dll) and can be easy integrated with ultimate applications. There are versions for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. LibXL is written in pure C++ and has a high performance. NET developers can use this library with supplied .NET wrapper. Delphi developers have Delphi units.

Main features:
- reading xls files
- writing xls files
- formatting support (alignments, fonts, borders, colors)
- picture support (png, jpg, wmf)
- date and number formats support
- merging support
- page breaks support
- inserting/removing rows/columns
- grouping and splitting
- comments support
- changing column widths and row heights
- stand-alone library (doesn't require Microsoft Excel)
- without COM/OLE automation
- windows, linux and mac versions
- C and C++ headers, wrapper for .NET, Delphi units
- high performace
- unicode support

Full version of LibXL costs $199.00 (US) for a single license. Licensed users are entitled to free technical support and upgrades free of charge for one year from the date of purchase. Futher information on the product, as well as its free evaluation copy, is available from http://www.libxl.com
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Instantiations Extends GWT Designer to Support GWT 2.0

Instantiations, Inc., a leading provider of software quality, security and productivity solutions for the Eclipse open source software platform, today announced an upgrade to version 7.3 of its popular graphical user interface (GUI) building product, GWT Designer™. GWT Designer v7.3 stays in sync with the major new release of the open source Google Web Toolkit (GWT) version 2.0, adding support for the new GWT 2.0 Development Mode, Layout Panels, Widgets and more. This new release of GWT Designer supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.

GWT Designer is the leading GUI building Eclipse plug-in for GWT and has become the defacto standard since its launch in late 2006. Based on Instantiations’ award-winning WindowBuilder product, named Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Developer Tool of 2009 by the Eclipse Foundation, GWT Designer allows developers to focus on creating rich Internet applications without worrying about the complexities of Ajax coding. It supports features such as drag-and-drop visual design and bi-directional code generation, and provides several useful wizards that help make GWT development easier.

“I have yet to see another tool in this space that allows you to craft a front-end as efficiently as GWT Designer, especially the way they stay on top of the latest GWT releases,” said David H. McCoy, Senior Software Engineer of Navius Technologies and GWT Designer customer. “GWT Designer was instrumental in creating the front-end for my last GWT-based project, and the customers loved it. Having used HTML and a pure JavaScript front-end, I am more convinced than ever with what GWT, teamed with GWT Designer can accomplish. It makes HTML mark-up a thing of the past.”

“GWT development continues at a rapid pace largely due to Google’s continued evolution of the framework, the rich set of third-party component libraries and of course value-add tools like GWT Designer,” said Eric Clayberg, senior vice president of product development, co-founder of Instantiations, Inc. and author of the Eclipse Plug-ins book. “GWT Designer’s continued popularity is based on the fact that we keep pace with the industry and continually respond to our customers’ needs.”

GWT Designer 7.3 Features
GWT Designer uses wizards, WYSIWYG builders and code generation to help developers rapidly create GUIs in Eclipse and Java before deploying them as Ajax applications.

GWT Designer 7.3 includes the following new features and enhancements:

• GWT 2.0 Development Mode Support – provides the ability to debug your project with the browser of your choice. Includes multi-browser debugging, allowing you connect to multiple browsers in a single debugging session and network support, plus a view to embed development mode logging messages directly into an Eclipse view.
• Layout Panels - Employ all new GWT 2.0 Layout Panel types. Layout Panels offer a predictable, constraint-based layout system on top of standard CSS to help you reliably create a desired layout.
• Widgets - Enjoy greater design flexibility with support for all new GWT 2.0 in-line widgets (Label, HTML and Hyperlink).

Enhanced Ext GWT (GXT) Support – Utilize added support for GXT 2.1 and un-typed GXT events.

Pricing and Availability
GWT Designer is available through a subscription of $79 for one year, $129 for 2-years, $179 for 3-years, or a perpetual license is $169 with one year of support, or it can be purchased as part of the WindowBuilder Pro product family. Current up-to-date subscription holders of GWT Designer can upgrade to new versions at no cost as part of their annual license. A two-week trial is available at http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/download-trial.html.

About Instantiations
Based in Portland, Oregon, USA, Instantiations is a leading innovator of Eclipse-based solutions and focuses its products and services on improving quality, security, productivity and time-to-market for global software development organizations. The company is also a major contributor in the Smalltalk language market with its VA Smalltalk product. Led by a team of internationally-recognized pioneers in Java and Smalltalk software technology, Instantiations is a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation and the Smalltalk Industry Council, and is an IBM Business Partner. With a line of products for Eclipse, IBM Rational®, JBuilder® and MyEclipse™, the company is named as one the fastest-growing Oregon companies four years running and recognized among the Top 100 companies influencing software development by SD Times for three consecutive years. For more information, visit http://www.instantiations.com.

Instantiations is a registered trademark of Instantiations, Inc. CodePro AnalytiX, WindowBuilder, Swing Designer, SWT Designer, GWT Designer, RCP Developer, WindowTester and VA Smalltalk are trademarks of Instantiations, Inc. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.
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With Perst, Silverlight Gains Embedded Database and Secure Local Storage

McObject® announced it has successfully ported Perst™, its open source, object-oriented embedded database system, to Microsoft’s Silverlight technology for building rich Web applications. With Perst for .NET, developers using Silverlight can now include true database management system (DBMS) features in their rich Web client applications, including adding persistence to this data by storing it on local file systems.

McObject also released a new demo, available at www.mcobject.com/silverlight-demo, showcasing Perst in a Silverlight-based customer relationship management (CRM) system. The demo runs in the user’s browser, stores records locally, and takes full advantage of Perst features such as indexes and native full text search to sort, retrieve and write records to the database. Users can launch the application from McObject’s site and also download complete, commented source code and documentation.

Data stored in Perst can exceed the storage size limit initially imposed on Silverlight applications, although for security reasons, permission from the Web application user is required for this. Permitting substantial amounts of locally stored data makes Perst a logical choice for Silverlight-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) and other hosted applications that need a database to support users’ work on ongoing projects.

Microsoft has also positioned Silverlight as a platform for rich Internet applications on smartphones and other mobile devices. “Perst’s strengths – including its small footprint, rich data management features, successful track record in a variety of mobile applications, and freely available source code – give it an edge to become the de facto embedded database system for Silverlight client software targeting mobile devices,” McObject CEO Steve Graves said.

"Now that Silverlight 3 supports installation of applications locally on the desktop, we can add the option of caching some data locally, in addition to being a locally installed visualization and interaction layer to cloud-based services, or a rich disconnected gadget. And McObject’s Perst embedded database presents a really compelling solution to help with managing the data," said David Chou, an architect at Microsoft.

"This is especially important for out-of-browser and locally installed applications, as one of their primary benefits is to support off-line usage. Having a database management solution such as Perst can help increase the overall robustness of the user experience, by ensuring work continuity regardless of connection state," Chou said.

“The Perst embedded database meshes perfectly with Silverlight 3’s out-of-the-browser capability, which is a real plus in many applications. I think that anyone who needs offline data access in their Silverlight applications should be using this product!” said Tim McCarthy, a software architect and engineer, published author and expert on Microsoft .NET technologies.

Released in 2007, Silverlight has rapidly gained a developer following for its ability to provide high quality graphics and multimedia, animation and audio-video playback. The technology centers on the free Silverlight Web browser plug-in. Programmers access this plug-in and create interactive Web applications using tools that are part of, or are compliant with, the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Like many technologies that sit between Web server and client platforms, Silverlight limits Web-based applications’ access to client-side file systems, for client security. However, a feature called “isolated storage” allows trusted Silverlight applications to store data on local disks, in a restricted manner and subject to a strict quota on the amount of available disk space.

With its newly added Silverlight support, Perst for .NET enables Silverlight database-enabled applications to leverage features including transactions, a flexible and easy-to-use API, multiple database indexes, garbage collection and more. Uses of Perst with Silverlight include client-side caching of application settings and of data for tables, grids and lists in Web forms. With Perst, clients can also store data from unfinished projects that use Silverlight Web applications.

To enforce security in Silverlight-based Web clients, Perst requires explicit permission from local users before allowing data storage to exceed the size allowed under Silverlight's quota. Also for security, the isolated storage feature in Silverlight restricts the Perst-based application to using a sub-tree of the file system for database storage. Developers can also choose to use Perst for transient, memory-only storage in Silverlight applications.

Perst and Perst Lite are part of McObject’s family of powerful small footprint, high performance embedded database software products. The eXtremeDB™ in-memory embedded database from McObject is used widely in devices including MP3 players, WiMAX base stations, digital TVs, telecom/network communications equipment and military/aerospace technology. Perst is available for Java and .NET, including Java ME and .NET Compact Framework. CA’s Wily Technology credits Perst with delivering a shortened development cycle and a ten-fold performance improvement within its real-time Java application.

About McObject

Founded by embedded database and real-time systems experts, McObject offers proven data management technology that makes applications and devices smarter, more reliable and more cost-effective to develop and maintain. McObject counts among its customers industry leaders such as Chrysler, Maximizer Software, Siemens, Phillips, EADS, JVC, Tyco Thermal Controls, F5 Networks, DIRECTV, CA, Motorola and Boeing. McObject, based in Issaquah, WA, is committed to providing innovative technology and first-rate services to customers and partners. The company can be reached at +1-425-888-8505, or visit www.mcobject.com.

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BlackBerry Development Fundamentals Book Review

BlackBerry Development Fundamentals is Addison Wesley's first book on BlackBerry development. With so few BlackBerry development books available, I was excited when this book arrived. Unfortunately, this excitement was short lived.

One of the problems with this book is the content. In this book you will find that some topics such as networking/data transfer (Chapters 2 - 7) are overly covered, while writing a Java application is barely covered (Chapter 11). There needs to be balance and it wasn't in this book.

A large amount of the book (Chapters 2 through 7) are spent discussing the mechanisms used to send data between BlackBerry and your server. These chapters provide very detailed information on this topic including pushing data to your blackberry. Although this is very through, it leaves very little room for other topics in the book.

Chapters 8 through 10 cover writing web browser based applications. Most of Chapters 8 and 9 discuss the limitations and problems with the BlackBerry web browser. This information is valuable, but the tone made me wonder why I would want to write a web application for BlackBerry. Chapter 10 covers testing your web application using the BlackBerry web browser emulator. Unfortunately, most of this chapter is spent on setting up Visual Studio plugin and Eclipse plugin for testing your web application.

Chapter 11 covers developing a BlackBerry application. Most of this chapter covers the specific BlackBerry APIs. Unfortunately, this is the only chapter where there is any coding going on and it is very limited.

Chapter 12 through 15 discuss the ways to develop BlackBerry Java applications. Chapter 13 covers setting up and using the BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE). Chapter 14 covers setting up and using the BlackBerry JDE Plugin for Eclipse. Chapter 15 covers using the various tools and simulators.

Chapter 16 covers how to deploy your application and Chapter 17 finishes things off with miscellaneous topics.

By looking at the chapter descriptions listed above you can probably see the next major problem: organization. The organization of the content of the book is terrible. Why would you put the chapters about setting up and using the development tools after the one and only chapter where you write code? This book had 6 editors and it came out horribly organized.

If there was anything valuable to get out of this book, it would be the networking/data transfer information covered in Chapters 2 - 7. Unfortunately, this wouldn't be enough to make me want to buy this book.

BlackBerry Development Fundamentals is available at Amazon.com.

Update: John Wargo, the author of this book, has posted his response to this review below.
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Free Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE Platform

Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE Platform introduces a standard set of component management services to the Java EE platform. This Refcard will be useful for anyone interested in getting a better understanding of Contexts and Dependency Injection so that they can get the most out of the Java EE Platform.

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Getting Started with the AdWords API Python Client Library

A brief tutorial that demonstrates how to get started using the AdWords API Python client library.

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Tackling the iPhone Development Learning Curve

The iPhone is an ever-expanding frontier. Since the first release of the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in March 2008, Apple has actively improved it and added new functionality. Apress has just released "More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3," their latest book digging deeper into Apple’s SDK. Authors Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche cover topics like Core Data, peer-to-peer networking using GameKit and network streams, working with data from the web, MapKit, in-application e-mail, concurrent programming, and debugging applications.

For all iPhone app developers who need to continue building their programming skills, understanding Core Data is a great place to start. Here is a brief introduction to Core Data straight from "More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3":

Core Data 101
Core Data is Apple’s framework and set of tools for persisting an application’s data to the iPhone’s file system automatically. Using Core Data helps iPhone developers develop apps more quickly and receive better performance than with traditional persistence mechanisms. Core Data can seem like magic at first. Objects are simply dealt with as objects, and seem to know how to save themselves into the database or file system. Developers won’t create SQL strings or make file management calls—ever. Core Data insulates the developer from some complex and difficult programming tasks. By using Core Data, iPhone app developers can develop applications with complex data models much, much faster than using straight SQLite, object archiving, or flat files.

Like most complex technologies, Core Data has its own terminology that can be a bit intimidating to newcomers. Here is a breakdown of Core Data’s five key concepts:
1) Persistent store
2) Data model
3) Persistent store coordinator
4) Managed object and managed object context
5) Fetch request

About "More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3"
For all iPhone app developers looking to write a professional iPhone app, Apress’s "More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3" is the place to start. Bestselling authors Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche carefully step through each of the Core Data concepts and demonstrate techniques and tips specifically for writing larger applications—offering a breadth of coverage that cannot be found anywhere else.

The Core Data coverage alone is worth the price of admission, but there’s much more. This book covers a variety of networking mechanisms, from GameKit’s relatively simple BlueTooth peer-to-peer model, to the addition of Bonjour discovery and network streams, through the complexity of accessing files via the web. Dave and Jeff also cover concurrent programming and some advanced techniques for debugging applications. All the concepts and APIs are clearly presented with code snippets that can be customized and used in an iPhone developer’s own apps. For more information about "More iPhone 3 Development: Tackling iPhone SDK 3," visit http://www.apress.com/book/view/143022505x.

About the Authors
Dave Mark is a long-time Mac developer and author and has written a number of books on Macintosh development, including "Learn C on the Macintosh," "The Macintosh Programming Primer" series, and "Ultimate Mac Programming." His blog can be found at www.davemark.com.

Jeff LaMarche is a long-time Mac developer and Apple iPhone developer. He has over 20 years of programming experience and has written on Cocoa and Objective-C for "MacTech" magazine, as well as articles for Apple’s Developer Technical Services website. He has experience working in Enterprise software, both as a developer for PeopleSoft starting in the late 1990s, and later as an independent consultant.

About Apress
Apress, Inc., part of Springer Science+Business Media, is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 700 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress offers a complete package of books on developing for the iPhone and Mac OS X. For developers who want to code games, create compelling user interfaces, or better get a handle on just what makes an app cool, Apress has books to suit. For more information about Apress, visit www.apress.com.

Source: PRWeb
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BitNami RubyStack 2.0 Makes Ruby on Rails Applications Easy to Deploy

BitNami, the site that simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud, has released RubyStack 2.0 along with ready to run packages of Rails-based open source applications. The BitNami Stacks are available as native installers, virtual appliances and cloud templates for Amazon EC2 and GoGrid.

RubyStack 2.0 is a fully integrated and configured package of Ruby, Rails, and all of the components required to develop and deploy Ruby on Rails applications, such as Apache, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Subversion, ImageMagick, Git and more. RubyStack is available as a native installer for deployment directly on a host machine, as a virtual machine image for deployment in a virtual environment, and as an AMI for Amazon and a GSI for GoGrid for deployment to either cloud platform. The fact that it is available in multiple formats makes it easy to replicate a standard configuration across different deployment environments for development, testing and production purposes.

BitNami also offers Stacks for popular open source Rails-based applications, including:
• Spree: A flexible, extensible e-commerce platform. Spree supports over 50 payment gateways and includes the ability to add customized logic for taxation, shipping, discounts and coupons, along with a host of other features.
• Radiant: A content management system designed for small teams. Radiant features an elegant user interface, flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging language, a first-class extension/plugin system and more.
• Typo: A powerful blogging platform that provides custom templates, powerful drag and drop plugins API, advanced SEO capabilities, XMLRPC API and many more.
• Tracks: An application for implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done (tm) methodology.
• Redmine: A project management application. It supports multiple projects, role-based access control, an issue tracking system, file management, feeds and email notifications, per project wikis and forums, time-tracking and more.

“Our goal with BitNami is to make developing and deploying applications on Rails and other frameworks as painless as possible,” said Daniel Lopez, the founder and CTO of BitRock, the primary sponsor of BitNami. “We’re happy to be able to offer so many great open source applications in freely available, easy to deploy packages.”

In addition to the applications listed above, BitNami offers over 25 other Stacks for popular open source applications and development environments. Popular BitNami Stacks include Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Subversion and Liferay. All BitNami Stacks are available as native installers, virtual appliances and cloud templates.

To learn more, visit bitnami.org/learn_more.

About BitNami

BitNami.org simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. Each BitNami Stack contains an application that is fully integrated with all of the software it requires to run. BitNami Stacks are available free of charge as native installers, virtual machine images and cloud templates, so they can easily be deployed in any environment. To download any of the BitNami Stacks, visit BitNami.org/Stacks.

BitNami is sponsored by BitRock, the creators of InstallBuilder Multiplatform Installer, the leading cross platform installation tool.

Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Machine Images, AMIs, GoGrid, GoGrid Server Images, GSIs, BitRock, BitNami, Getting Things Done and other trademarks are property of their respective owners.


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HiBase Group Introduces DBF Viewer 2000 v3.15

HiBase Group today introduces DBF Viewer 2000® v3.15 software offering new features that give users more flexibility in manipulating a database. Now dbf editor has new search criteria added to the quick filter and also allows the user to delete duplicates ignoring the case.

Today DBF file format is frequently used as a format of data exchange between applications, which creates a need for tools to manipulate files in this format. DBF Viewer 2000 provides users with an affordable, fast and convenient tool to view and edit a DBF database, created in different database creation packages. Once the database is opened, the user can review, edit, sort database records, delete duplicates, print and export to a variety of formats, including DBF, TXT, CSV, XLS, HTML, XML, PRG, SQL, RTF. The program supports command line enabling users to automate routine operations, including removal of duplicates or replacement of data in database files. Users will also discover an ability to view and edit memo fields in dBase III, dBase IV, FoxPro, VFP and dBase Level 7 formats. Unlike similar tools, DBF Viewer 2000 can export memo fields to various formats, such as XLS, CSV, SQL, XML and HTML. DBF Viewer 2000® connects to a database without external drivers (ODBC, BDE).

Pricing & Availability
DBF Viewer 2000 v3.15 is available immediately from http://www.dbf2002.com as a free evaluation version. Registration costs $39.95 (US). Upgrades and technical support are available for previous owners of DBF Viewer for free. The product runs on Windows 95/98/NT/XP/Vista/2008/Windows 7.

About HiBase Group
HiBase Group was founded in 2002 by a group of software developers and has focused on developing utilities for DBF files. The HiBase team has strong programming skills, solid development experience and the desire to create products that their customers will truly enjoy.

HiBase Group offers a range of software products to businesses and individuals alike. DBF Recovery, a handy DBF Repair Tool; DBF Converter, a tool to convert multiple dbf files at once. For more information, visit www.dbf2002.com.

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Advanced AdWords API for .NET from GemBox Software

Automating Google AdWords and integrating AdWords data with enterprise systems is the new IT trend. Vendors want to automate PPC advertising for all products in their inventory or automate bidding based on product profits. Marketing agencies need to manage large AdWords campaigns for multiple clients. All of them want better GUIs to view, analyze and optimize huge amounts of AdWords data.

New AdWords API from GemBox Software makes development of such software a lot easier. GemBox.Ppc is an AdWords C# component that adds advanced features on top of existing Google AdWords API.

Features include:

• Extremely simple download and upload methods.
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• Lazy download mode gets data automatically when needed.


• Hierarchical, tree-like representation of AdWords objects.


• Flat representation of AdWords objects.


• Easy, dynamic filtering and sorting of AdWords objects.


• Full data binding support on objects and collections.


• Minimal API unit usage.


• Nullable properties.


• Uploadable objects.


• Disconnected data model (work on cached local data and upload when needed).


• Advanced synchronization of local and server data.


• Ability to resolve synchronization conflicts.


• Ability to undo local changes.


• Backup - load/save entire model to an XML file.


• API errors handling.


• API unit counting.


• XML SOAP logging.


• Smart (partial) copying of AdWords objects.


• Generic iteration over hierarchies and object properties.

GemBox also offers AdWords developers for custom programming projects (using Google AdWords API or GemBox.Ppc), therefore positioning itself as one-stop shop for PPC/AdWords solutions.

GemBox Software develops components for Visual Studio .NET and custom .NET applications for Windows platform. They are a Microsoft ISV Partner and a winner of ComponentSource Best Selling Publisher Awards for 2006, 2007 and 2008. GemBox Software uses AdWords system for more than four years and during that period they have managed numerous AdWords campaigns.

AdWords is a trademark of Google Inc., Mountain View, California.

If you would like more information on this topic, please contact Zeljko Svedic on e-mail ZeljkoS(at)gemboxsoftware(dot)com
or phone +385 1 2223 588.



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