Exakat 0.12.1 review Exakat 0.12.1 has been published, right back from the excellent Dutch PHP Conference. The whole event covered 4 days, including Workshops, Sessions, Code Night, Uncon and DPCon social meetings. Exakat received enthusiastic feedback from ‘Reviewing unknown code with static analysis’ ! We also received suggestions from Marcus Bointon, Petra Drieskamper, Ivan Enderlin […]
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Jun
Jun
Exakat 0.12.0 Exakat 0.12.0 is now out, after a rough publication day. The main work on 0.12 is the new support for Janusgraph that has started. This is still quite hidden, but you’ll feel the effect soon. Also, we got two nice contributions: the non-breakable spaces classes, from Matthieu Napoli, and the optional property, via […]
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Jun
Jun
Exakat 0.11.7 review Exakat 0.11.7 review is out, right during the ‘Exakat Dutch tour June 2017‘. We’ll be in Amersfoort Tuesday 13rd, and Amsterdam for DPC on June 30th. This week’s version is loaded with new analysis, and you can expect even more coming up the next weeks. Support for new PHP extensions, reaching 140: […]
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May
May
Exakat 0.11.5 is out, right after the excellent Darkmira Tour Brazil. Although it delayed the Monday publication, it also gave a list of good ideas and some time in the airport to work on it. So, this version is featuring a new report, called ‘Dependency wheel’, and four new analysis: Avoid typehinting with classes, Could […]
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May
May
exakat 0.11.4 review Exakat 0.11.4 is out, right during Code Europe : meet us in Wroclaw and Warsaw! This version features two new analyzers : ‘Only variable can be passed by reference’ is partially handled by PHP at lint time, and static analysis goes a lot further. Also, some functions may omit return when their […]
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May
May
Exakat 0.11.3 review Exakat 0.11.3 is out. This version focuses on speed gains, stability and adds 4 new analysis. As for news, there is now support for the sphinx and grpc extensions. Exakat also reports ‘randomly sorted arrays’, multiple catch on try and the alternative tags consistence. More insights for your code. Randomly sorted arrays […]
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May
May
Exakat 0.11.2 review Exakat 0.11.2 is out. It is a stability release: exakat was run on 800 projects during the week, to weed out some rare situations and keep all the analysis running on any kind of code. This is how we decided to add a new analysis: empty regex. Also this week, the ‘difference […]
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Apr
Apr
Arrays forever Ever since I started using PHP, arrays have always been my friend. They are versatile, they have a wide range of functions, and they are easy to use. I kept using them versions after versions, and even with PHP 7.2, I still rely on them a lot. Over the years, classes have also […]
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Apr
Apr
Exakat 0.10.7 (Immortal Antelope Power) ships with a lot of behind the scene works, and little to show. This is now becoming a classic: we need to collect a lot of data from frameworks or PHP, store them by version, and generate… a boolean. All that work for so little. But, in the end, it […]
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Mar
Mar
Exakat 0.10.6 (immortal elk power) is finally here. The main feature of the major speed increase, so that alone is worth upgrading to this version. In the same time, a lot of ground work has been done, and six new analyzers are made available. Major speed increase Two upgrades have been made on the Exakat […]