Metabase – Open Source business intelligence and analytics

Metabase is an Open Source business intelligence and analytics tool.  It supports a variety of databases and services as sources for data, and provides a number of data querying and processing tools.  Have a look at the GitHub repository as well.

And if you want a few alternatives or complimenting tools, I found this list quite useful.

Top 100 PHP functions

Top 100 PHP functions” is a list of the top 100 most frequently used PHP functions, from the analysis of the 1,900 open source projects.   If you are still learning PHP, this list is a good overview of what you’ll see the most in real life projects.

EU : Compensation of employees per hour worked

Eurostat reports the compensation of employees per hour worked.  This includes 28 member countries of the European Union, and the data for the last 10 years.

Cyprus stands at 14.3 EUR (that’s 2,288 EUR per month, given 40 hour working weeks) , slightly up from 13.9 EUR ten years ago.

The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks

JavaScript ecosystem is well known for its dynamic nature.  There are a gadzillion of libraries and frameworks, and they come and go much faster than any developer can learn and utilize them.  StackOverflow blog runs this article, which looks at the issue in more detail.

Let’s Encrypt is leading Top SSL Issuers

Netrack reports some statistics for the Top SSL Issuers, and it’s nice to see Let’s Encrypt leading the race with a significant advantage over the rest. Well done, ladies and gentlemen!