Month: April 2018

Understanding AD Access Control Entries

“Understanding AD Access Control Entries” is a quick and simple article describing some of the madness of the Active Directory access control entities.  This is particularly useful for those of us who had to deal with Active Directory, without having much experience with MS Windows.  I’m sure this will come handy again in the future.

Publishers Haven’t Realized Just How Big a Deal GDPR is

Lately, I feel like I’m behaving very similar to Steve Ballmer, running around screaming “GDPR! GDPR! GDPR!”.

But I find it to be a huge change for anyone around Europe, and I see it coming into play very soon, and most of the people around me are mostly like “GDPR? What’s that?”.

This article does a lot of good explaining how big of a deal it is.  And it doesn’t matter whether you support this or totally against it, I think it will be a huge change for everyone all around.  In particularly so – technical people implementing the necessary changes.

PHP Static Analysis

Here are a couple of new tools in addition to previously mentioned PHPStan:

  • Psalm by Vimeo.  The cool thing about this static analyzer is that it supports both PHP 5.6 and PHP 7, unlike PHPStan which requires PHP 7.  (Yeah, I know PHP 5.6 has reached the end of its active support a while back, but there are still quite a few projects around using it.) Additionally, Psalm is easy to control via the XML configuration file,  much like PHPUnit and PHP CodeSniffer.
  • Phan.  This one is a bit trickier to install, as it requires some PHP extensions that I’ve never heard about (like PHP AST).