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455. How Can I Get Users to Try my Software Product for the First Time
Posted on: 2016-09-21
Before you announce the software product that you developed, nobody knows about it. Actually if you are starting in the business, maybe nobody knows you yet.
So you need to start attracting people to at least try your product, demonstrate that you understand about the user problems and how your product can solve them.
Watch this video of a consulting session to learn about means to start attracting a list of people potentially interested in your product, so you can sell it later to them.
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So you need to start attracting people to at least try your product, demonstrate that you understand about the user problems and how your product can solve them.
Watch this video of a consulting session to learn about means to start attracting a list of people potentially interested in your product, so you can sell it later to them.
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Posted on: 2016-09-20
In simple terms, Domain Design Design is an approach for software development that departs from an evolving model of the problem to the implementation.
This package provides a demonstration of the application of the model driven design.
It provides a set of classes that demonstrate how to implement domain logic with example models, services, strategies, as well specific data type object and mapper classes to use in the demonstration scripts.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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This package provides a demonstration of the application of the model driven design.
It provides a set of classes that demonstrate how to implement domain logic with example models, services, strategies, as well specific data type object and mapper classes to use in the demonstration scripts.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Posted on: 2016-09-19
Blog: PHP OAuth Library package blog
Package: PHP OAuth Library
When your application needs to call an API with tokens obtained using OAuth, if your application OAuth credentials are stolen, it becomes a security problem that may cause you big headaches.
Read this tutorial to learn about good security practices to minimize the possible damages to your application if your developer user account details in the API site get stolen.
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Read this tutorial to learn about good security practices to minimize the possible damages to your application if your developer user account details in the API site get stolen.
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Posted on: 2016-09-15
One way to send SMS messages without depending on third party APIs is to use the Gammu program. It can communicate with a mobile phone connected to your machine and sends SMS messages from the phone to whatever recipients you want.
This method of sending SMS messages may not be particularly fast, especially when you have to send many SMS messages, as it has to wait for one message to be sent, to send the next message.
This class provides a solution to prevent that your PHP application needs to wait for each SMS message to be delivered before it can send the next one.
It uses local message queues to post the messages. A separate script can pull each message from the queue and send it by communicating with the mobile phone using Gammu.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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This method of sending SMS messages may not be particularly fast, especially when you have to send many SMS messages, as it has to wait for one message to be sent, to send the next message.
This class provides a solution to prevent that your PHP application needs to wait for each SMS message to be delivered before it can send the next one.
It uses local message queues to post the messages. A separate script can pull each message from the queue and send it by communicating with the mobile phone using Gammu.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Posted on: 2016-09-14
Comet is a form of communicating with a Web server using HTTP requests that do not finish returning a response, so they can continue to communicate to the Web browser.
Read this article to learn how to use the Comet approach to implement a simple Web chat system.
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Read this article to learn how to use the Comet approach to implement a simple Web chat system.
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Posted on: 2016-09-13
JSON is nowadays used by many applications and APIs to exchange data in a format that can be supported by many languages.
Sometimes you need to do some processing to filter unwanted entries in JSON data structure. Usually you would use json_decode parse the data, traverse the parsed data and filter the unwanted information, and regenerate it with json_encode.
This class offers a simpler solution. It can take a JSON string and removed the unwanted entries from the JSON string directly.
This way you do not need to perform traversal of data and custom processing to remove the unwanted data.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Sometimes you need to do some processing to filter unwanted entries in JSON data structure. Usually you would use json_decode parse the data, traverse the parsed data and filter the unwanted information, and regenerate it with json_encode.
This class offers a simpler solution. It can take a JSON string and removed the unwanted entries from the JSON string directly.
This way you do not need to perform traversal of data and custom processing to remove the unwanted data.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Posted on: 2016-09-12
Every developer knows that adding indexes to database tables may speedup database queries. However, in several circumstances, this may not be the case, and your application may actually get slower when you add indexes.
Watch this short video that is the first part of a talk that teaches what are indexes under the hood, how to determine when you should add indexes to your database tables, when you should not add indexes, and
alternative solutions to optimize MySQL based applications without adding indexes that could slow down your application.
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Watch this short video that is the first part of a talk that teaches what are indexes under the hood, how to determine when you should add indexes to your database tables, when you should not add indexes, and
alternative solutions to optimize MySQL based applications without adding indexes that could slow down your application.
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Posted on: 2016-09-09
This is the August edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles published recently.
They commented on articles about using the HTTPoxy vulnerability that affects some well known PHP applications, how to use the pthreads extension, and several articles and videos to help developers create software product businesses.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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They commented on articles about using the HTTPoxy vulnerability that affects some well known PHP applications, how to use the pthreads extension, and several articles and videos to help developers create software product businesses.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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Posted on: 2016-09-08
When you need to submit security sensitive data to a Web site, you should always use encrypted connections. However, over time older SSL versions have been discovered to be vulnerable, to the point that SSL is not longer synonym of security.
Nowadays you should use at least TLS and we don't know until when the current TLS versions will be safe to use to protect the transmission of private data.
This class provides an additional layer of security by using JavaScript to encrypt data before transmitting form values using RSA public key, and then having the server to decrypt the data with a private key.
This way, eventual man in the middle attacks will not be able to decrypt the data because they don't know what is the private key that the server uses to decrypt it.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Nowadays you should use at least TLS and we don't know until when the current TLS versions will be safe to use to protect the transmission of private data.
This class provides an additional layer of security by using JavaScript to encrypt data before transmitting form values using RSA public key, and then having the server to decrypt the data with a private key.
This way, eventual man in the middle attacks will not be able to decrypt the data because they don't know what is the private key that the server uses to decrypt it.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Posted on: 2016-09-07
What developers like most is to write code. Creating your own software product business gives you a lot of freedom to work any time you want, anywhere you want, work with the technologies you like, but some developers are afraid that once they start a business they may need to stop writing code and give up on the joy of being a developer.
Fortunately it does not have to be this way. You can create your own software product business and still continue to work as a developer.
Watch this video to learn about different solutions to continuing to be a developer while you work on your own software product business.
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Fortunately it does not have to be this way. You can create your own software product business and still continue to work as a developer.
Watch this video to learn about different solutions to continuing to be a developer while you work on your own software product business.
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