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* VirtualBox - Neither Parallels nor VMWare are free. VirtualBox IS free, and while perhaps not as richly featured as the other two, is the basis for both Vagrant and boot2docker. * SequelPro - Free, excellent MySQL database management tool * Homebrew - aka "The missing package manager for OS …

Given your stated usages, I'd suggest a 15" MBP with Retina display, with the optional 1TB SSD.

***Carbon Copy Cloner*** or ***SuperDuper!*** (the former is freeware, the latter is shareware) can both make full-disk bootable backups. I use SuperDuper! every night (at around 2 AM) to makle a bootable backup of my system, to go with my local Time Machine incremental backup and my offsite CrashPlan backups.

This appears to be a PHP serialized string. If that's your general usecase, then the simplest way to decode it is via the unserialize() function, like so: $serialized_string = 'a:14:{s:4:"city";s:7:"Bijapur";s:3:"zip";s:6:"586101";s:3:"lat";d:16.83329963684082;s:2:"as";s:33:"AS9829 National Internet Backbone";s:5:"query";s:13:"59.99.192.232";s:6:"region";s:2:"KA";s:10:"regionName";s:9:"Karnataka";s:3:"org";s:4:"BSNL";s:3:"isp";s:4:"BSNL";s:7:"country";s:5:"India";s:11:"countryCode";s:2:"IN";s:3:"lon";d:75.69999694824219;s:6:"status";s:7:"success";s:8:"timezone";s:12:"Asia/Kolkata";}'; $unserialized_array = unserialize($serialized_string); foreach ($unserialized_array as $key=>$value) { print "$key: $value\n"; }

I have been using Google Chrome for several years. I don't care for Safari on iPhone and I have tried and didn't care for Opera's iPhone offering. I like Chrome because: 1. It integrates with other Google apps like GMail and Hangouts 2. It gives you access to your bookmarks …

I'm a long-time Drupal developer, and I can tell you straightaway that modifying the code in */modules*, */includes*, or */themes* is **not** okay. One of the prime-directives of Drupal is "**Thou shalt not hack core.**" It will work, of course, but will also make your website extremely difficult to maintain …