PhpMetrics – static analysis tool for PHP

PhpMetrics is yet another tool in the ever growing list of the static code analyzers for PHP.  Compared to the rest, I think this one is the easiest to install and run.  And it produces the most eye candy reports ever.  The generated report is in the HTML format, with fancy charts and graphs, and makes it really easy to spot and fix the issues.

Design for Blockchain

Design for Blockchain” is a collection of articles about user interface and user experience design for blockchain and cryptocurrency projects and tools.  Blockchain, due to its nature, is quite a technical subject, so making it friendly for non-technical users is a challenge.  These articles are exploring the domain problem.

Database Flow – modern, self-hosted web interface for SQL and GraphQL

Database Flow is a modern, Open Source, self-hosted, web-based tool for working with SQL databases and GraphQL APIs.  It supports a variety of the database engines: IBM DB2, Oracle, H2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Informix, and Microsoft SQL Server.  It features an advanced SQL editor, query plan analyzer, GraphQL client, schema explorer, charting, query history, and more.

The only visible downside so far is that it’s written in Java.

Vim, cfdo, Ale and RipGrep

This blog post goes over several grep-like tools and their integration with Vim.  If that’s something you do often, it’s worth a read.  The tools are:

  • Vim’s built-in “:cdo” and “:cfdo” commands.  Here’s another blog post with a nice explanation of what these are and how to use them.
  • Ale – asynchronous lint engine.
  • RipGrep – a very fast tool for recursively searching directories for a regular expression.  Extra bits for Vim integration are provided by the vim-ripgrep plugin.