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CodeLobster PHP Edition – modern free PHP IDE

CodeLobster PHP EditionWhat do lobsters have to do with PHP? It’s simple. CodeLobster PHP Edition is one of the best modern professional instruments for advanced web-developers. It is equally convenient and useful for those who already have become a master or for those who are still learning to be.

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Example of Scraping with Selenium WebDriver in C#

In this article I will show you how it is easy to scrape a web site using Selenium WebDriver. I will guide you through a sample project which is written in C# and uses WebDriver in conjunction with the Chrome browser to login on the testing page and scrape the text from the private area of the website.

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SQL Dump Splitter

This nice free program saved my day when I had to transfer a big database from one MySql Server to another. If you need to restore a big database using phpMyAdmin you will find it usefull as well.

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Using Regex Lookaround for HTML element extraction

Yes, I’m aware that using regex for HTML parsing is not the best idea. But still when I need to quickly extract some small portion of a web page I find myself applying regex more often than executing an XPath query, and its lookahead and lookbehind constructions may be quite helpful.

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5 Best XPath Cheat Sheets and Quick References

XPath Cheat Sheets I always love a good cheat sheet hanging on my corkboard when I’m working, and XPath is one of the fields where I often refer to it. If you’re looking for a good XPath cheat sheet you will probably find something useful in this post.

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XPath in Examples

Here we’ll show how XPath works. Let’s take the following XML as a lab rat.

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Debuggex Review: get your Regex to play visual

Debuggex is an online Regex testing tool that allows visualization of Regex match algorithms. The visualization feature is good both for the learners who do some Regex exploration and for the experienced users who might want to track the Regex match forward or back. It is also useful for an instant Regex pattern match by highlighting, thus eliminating the need for pressing any buttons to run Regex patterns. This tool is one of a dozen online Regex testers.

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Google Application Engine Review

Google Application Engine (GAE) is a cloud computing platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.

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My Linux Tips

I created this post just to have a place where to keep all those linux things I always forget 😉 Hope you’ll find it useful for you as well.

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HTTP vs HTTPS

In this post we will deal with the most vital facts and the pros and cons concerning the HTTPS vs HTTP issue. Besides the security advantage, we will consider the main things that make a difference: caching, performance issue, virtual hosting issue and others.