How to encrypt data in browser with JavaScript and decrypt on server side with PHP

Client-server encryption-decryption using Advanced Encryption Algorithm (AES) in client and server is complicated because exactly the same algorithm must be implemented twice: once for client side in JavaScript and once for server side in PHP,C# etc.

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PHP Console – a new must-have php debugging tool

PHP Console is a debugging tool for PHP that writes debug info to Chrome debugging console. It was recently updated to the version 3 and has a lot of new nice features now.

There is a similar debugging tool FirePHP that does the same job with Firefox and FireBug.
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How to change location of the pear.ini for php 5.4 and 5.5 on Windows

When PEAR installs itself on Windows it places pear.ini file in the system folder c:\Windows by default. Which sometimes needs to be changed after all. And sometimes it is not possible for some reasons (not sure why, probably a bug in PEAR installation scripts) to change this location during the installation. Then we need to change this location when PEAR is already installed and in use.
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How to install PEAR on Windows

There was a PEAR installer go-pear.bat that referred to ./PEAR/go-pear.phar in php versions prior to 5.3 on Windows. But since version 5.3 this installer is absent. Strange enough but official PEAR installation guide still refers to the absent go-pear.bat file. But then it writes about update of PEAR installation by requesting a new go-pear.phar and that is what we should actually do at the beginning.
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Integration between issue tracking system, CI server and VCS. Part 3 resolve an issue

This is the third part of my blogpost about integration between issue tracking system, CI server and VCS. Part 1 is about components setup. Part 2 is about project setup.
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Integration between issue tracking system, CI server and VCS. Part 2 project setup

This is the second part of blogpost about integration between issue tracking system, CI server and VCS. Part 1 is about components setup. Part 3 is about resolving an issue.
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Integration between issue tracking system, CI server and VCS. Part 1 components

This is the first part of my blogpost about integration between issue tracking system, CI server and VCS. Part 2 is about project setup. Part 3 is about resolving an issue.
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A Maturity Model for Continuous Delivery

Here is an interesting rough systematization in a table view of Continuous Delivery process. It is composed by Sveinung Dalatun and Stein Inge Morisbak employees of a Norwegian company named Bekk. They called this table A Maturity Model for Continuous Delivery. This model was published once in a Norwegian paper magazine called “The Developer” number 3 year 2013. There is a short description-article following the Model published in The Developer. The are Some quite interesting thoughts there.
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