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Going professional with linux desktop

Linux is powerful and much comfortable as a Professional Desktop, especially in areas of Web Development and Programming. It gives great tools to do work easier. Linux also proofs its efficiency in other areas as well. Developing Hollywood films to use as Gaming consoles are also possible with Linux.

When I installed Suse 10.2 on my office laptop with a duel head setup.

The useful tools
Zend Studio - PHP IDE.
Eclipse with PHP eclipse and Aptana plugin - A complete web2.0 IDE
GIMP - a complete Image Editing and designing tool - It will do even opening PSD files and editing. an alternative to photoshop
NVU, Quanta Plus, Kdevelop, Qt designer - good and powerful web authoring/Programming tools of its own class.
Kbear and gFTP - FTP clients
Kdesvn - Directly integrate SVN into KDE and konqueror - same as tortoise SVN does on windows.
QSvn - Qt based SVN GUI.
webdav:/ - client protocol to browse SVN repos.
kopete or Gaim - The multi protocol messengers - The complete buddylists in one tool
Skype - telephony
Firefox - the killer application
Use Internet explorer 6 with wine and winetools
Mplayer and Xine based multimedia players - enjoy the media
Amarok - the jukebox with lot of features
Realplayer and Helix player - another media player and jukebox system
Myth TV - the Media Center
K3b - CD/DVD creation
and a lot of command line tools that do great work.

Al tools within favorite KDE is an amazing environment for a professional developer to work on.
On the other side we have all popular server tools Apache,PHP and MySQL to run everything in a local system
thus we can make each Linux desktop to a powerful web development system.

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One year at Flip Media Trivandrum

It is one February First I joined Flip Media Trivandrum as a Web Developer. Now it gone one complete years of Flipping . It is a great experience, working at Flip Media. I feel the year is gone very fast. lot of events, lot of friends, lot of web applications - it was really a wonderful year of “Flipping Online”.

About Flip Media

Unique and unexpected. Effective and business driven. Surprising with innovative technology. Branded through creativity. Specialized in relationship building. Recognized award winning work. Flip…you will! .

Flip Media, One of the largest Interactive agency, born from Middle East now growing faster around the glob. Read Flip Media Credential to know more. Flip Media Trivandrum is Part of Flip Media Private Limited India, a Flip Holding company.

Flip Media Trivandrum team

The team is growing ….

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Do PHP in your language - Awaiting PHP6 funs

While PHP5 gaining popularity development of PHP6 is in progress. The main upgrade happens is the Unicode support for almost all php functions. Check the complete upgrade plans on developers meeting notes.
With PHP6 new features we can mix Unicode in code. See the fun.

See PHP developer Andrei Zmievski’s talks on Unicode in PHP6.

With this upgrade possibilities of developing libraries in Unicode languages, and using them to code applications in mother tongue is possible.Coding in Malayalam, Hindi or Arabic will go smooth. Not need to know English to do a computer programming then :).

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Native windows applications with PHP

After PHP-GTK, it is WinBinder pays my attention towards PHP’s capabilities to build Desktop applications. Unlike PHP-GTK WinBinder is not cross platform. But it enables development of Native windows applications much easier.

In 5 easy steps we can create a simple application. I have created a simple XML editor to see how easy the development is.With my application I can create XML files in complete hierarchical way. I am using the Tree Control and Tab Control to make the application. GUI is developed with WinBinder’s form editor - which is also made with PHP.

It will we cool to have a PHP IDE in PHP itself. That is not so complicated as well.

You can download the presentation that explains the proccess here.

There exists a php compiler that uses some PECL packages to make bytecode from PHP and makes exe files from WinBinder Applications. It is called phpc. Packaging of standalone PHP windows applications are thus goes much easier.

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WinBinder as default is not Object oriented. But Object oriented libraries are available in community. WbObjects , Classes from Jonasjohn etc are useful.