On the 22nd of May the PHP meetup Frankfurt will meet again in person. The topic of the day is PHPStan - the static code analysis tool for PHP.

Web applications often have bugs, which can lead to security issues. To mitigate the risk of such vulnerabilities, developers can use different solutions. One of them is Content Security Policy (CSP).

Last weekend at the Mage Titans Conference in Manchester, the sansec folks announced their new Composer Integrity Plugin project.

From time to time we are in need to access resources on a different server, and if it's only for a short time. The key is here to rely on simple and readily available tools.

Last weekend I was giving a talk at the Mage Titans Conference in Manchester.

While improving the page indexing of our blog, I realized that Google still had old urls stored that aren't valid anymore. The challenge in this case: The urls in question could only be identified via specific get parameters.

A while ago when importing a staging dump to reproduce an issue locally in one of our Magento projects, I hit an "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS" error. Magento kept redirecting me with a HTTP 302 response code.

Last month Microsoft introduced a new release of the Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy. The latest release introduces support for monitoring specific processes, a new plugin allowing testing against rate limiting supported APIs and provides a new OData paging guidance.

Yesterday, we released version 0.30.0 of our bitexpert/phpstan-magento extension for PHPStan.

Sometimes, mostly for smaller customers, we deploy staging and production environments on the same machine. Not an ideal setup, but doable. Thanks to Docker the different instances can live in isolation, except of course when one instance takes the server down, the other instance is also affected.