PHP Future Feature – Enumerations RFC
If you’re familiar with a language other than PHP, it’s likely that you’ve encountered native implementations of the enumeration data type. It’s a primitive that was present even b...
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Free SPF DNS Sensor For PRTG
Here at Vokke we use PRTG as a tool to monitor all of our infrastructure components. We needed to monitor some Sender Policy Framework (SPF) DNS records (the modern, TXT-based ones...
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Capturing Flushed Entities Within The PostFlush Event Subscriber
A colleague and I recently ran into an interesting scenario when using Doctrine, a data mapper object-relational mapping library. As it turns out, you cannot natively get a list of...
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Permission Systems And Access Controls – An Introduction
In software design, the term “access control” refers to the limitations of access to resources by other entities, typically end-users. This is a very active area of research, and t...
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Optimizer Search Depth Issue In MySQL
Our development team recently ran into quite an interesting issue – when joining around 20 tables together, the query performed outrageously slowly, taking in excess of 40 seconds...
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How Do Apps Store Your Password Securely?
Ever wondered how web apps store your password securely? It’s quite an interesting topic, and the answer may surprise you. Let’s take a deep dive look at the mechanics that protect...
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How Randomness Runs The Internet
Random numbers are at the heart of security on the internet. Without them, the internet would be a totally insecure place, a world where confidential online banking and messaging w...
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Introduction To Block, File And Object Storage
Introduction to blocks, files and objects Data is now everywhere. Astonishingly, in the last two years alone humans created 90% of the world’s data. That explosive exponential gro...
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