A couple of months ago I installed PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) for Mac OS X. This software encrypts the entire hard disk and requires pre–boot authentication before allowing Mac OS X to boot. It worked well on Leopard: no slow downs, no faults, simple and effective. I like it.

Now Snow Leopard is out. PGP Inc promised to release a Snow Leopard–compatible version of WDE together with the Snow Leopard release. They failed. Instead they offered a beta program where anybody can sign up. I signed up twice. No good. Not even a single...

I am very happy with Mac OS X 64–bit Zend debugger and Zend Studio. It is a perfect combination for the serious PHP developer. However I miss certain features of XDebug, such as a great error reporting.

Some years ago I tried running Zend Debugger with XDebug and it did not go: the server simply refused to start because of PHP initialization error. It was a Zend precaution against third party extensions that may prevent debugging.

Today I decided to try again and I found that it works! The only requirement is that XDebug is loaded...

If you, like me, use Zend Studio on Mac OS X, you know there were no official Zend 64–bit PHP debugger for Mac OS X. Some time ago Zend posted a true universal binary (including 64–bit version!) to the Zend Advisory Team for testing. We tested it there and it works perfectly!

Today I happy to say that Zend released this version for public use. Read the announcement made by Roy Ganor about it.

What would you think if you have received an e–mail that looks approximately like this?..

This book is very useful for both Magento designers and Magento developers. Designers will know how to create Magento themes efficiently and developers will get a very interesting insight into theming in web applications. Highly recommended book!

I use Blind Search a lot recently. It fetches search results from three major search engines: Bing, Google and Yahoo. It shows results to you and than asks what results you like the most. I found that most often I am satisfied with Yahoo search results. For example, searching for "magento set product type programmatically" showed two first results in Yahoo where I got most answers to my questions. Bing was #2 and Google was #3.

This is not a single example. I find that Google relelvancy becomes worse and worse. It is much...

TechCrunch reports that YouTube may drop Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 support soon. In my opinion this is excellent news. Just a couple of days ago I spent almost the whole day trying to make the site with complex CSS layout work correctly in the Internet Explorer 6. FireFox, Opera, Safari and newer versions of Internet Explorer were all fine. Internet Explorer 6 required its own CSS. It is plain stupid to support such an old browser that does not behave according to standards in any mode.

I do welcome MSIE6 support drop from major market...