A PVS-Studio team and our product make a great contribution to upgrading of software quality. Moreover, in addition to detecting errors in closed and open source projects, there is an indirect contribution to the development of compilers and other tools of code analysis. We are pleased that in some cases we are trendsetters and we decided to dedicate a small note to this in our blog.

There’s a problem we needed to address in the course of developing our games. It’s complicated to generate a random number in a distributed network. Almost all blockchains have already faced this issue. Indeed, in networks where there is no trust between anyone, the creation of a random number solves a wide range of problems.

In this article, we explain how we solved this problem for our games. The first of these was Waves Xmas Tree.

PHP, or hypertext preprocessor, is an open-source server-side scripting language. It’s extremely popular, too — almost 80% of all websites were using PHP as of October 2018.

But how do you know which PHP framework is right for you?