Krumo – a replacement for print_r() and var_dump()
Year: 2014
PHP Debug Bar
The DebugBar integrates easily in any projects and can display profiling data from any part of your application. It comes built-in with data collectors for standard PHP features and popular projects.
The Heartbleed Bug
If you haven’t heard about The Heartbleed Bug yet, here is your chance. Â This page describes it nicely in not too technical detail. Â Let’s get a few quotes to get you started:
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).
The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.
That doesn’t just sound nasty. Â IT IS!
Trying out Flounder
I’m trying out the Flounder WordPress theme for my blog. Â It’ll take a few moments for me to configure everything, so please don’t get annoyed just yet. Â Theme options are fine, but it looks like I have a few issues with custom post types, which aren’t matching my previous theme (Favepersonal). Â I’ll update this post once I’m done – that’ll be the time to report the issues.
Update (April 9, 2014, 01:47am): most of it works now. Â There are still a couple of small quirks for me to fix, but feel free to let me know if you see anything wrong.
Piwik – Liberating Web Analytics
Piwik is the leading open source web analytics platform that gives you valuable insights into your website’s visitors, your marketing campaigns and much more, so you can optimize your strategy and online experience of your visitors.