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· 4 min read
Iain Cambridge

Today is the release of Parthenon 2.1. It's a small release putting in some nice little features before big drive to build a powerful billing system starts. It has one key feature which is the Data Export Module. Which I think will be super useful to companies that deal with data exports from their system. Then there are a few minor features which will help will small little issues.

· 4 min read
Iain Cambridge

I've started to document the design decisions made for Parthenon. One of the main decisions made was to make classes that aren't meant to be extended to be final. There are many schools of thought when it comes to development. With many people having different opinions about when and why to use final classes, I thought I would add my opinion to the mix.

Decision

The decision was made to make classes that aren't meant to be extended final. All final classes should have an interface that matches their publicly available methods.

· 6 min read
Iain Cambridge

Today we're announcing the release of Parthenon 2.0. With this release, there are updates like all other releases. But the main change is that Parthenon is now available under the Business Source License. This means that it is now free to use Parthenon for non-production use, such as: development, testing, and evaluation. We're also granting an additional usage for production use to those generating less than $5,000 US Dollars a month. Previously, Parthenon was only available for a fee.

· 13 min read
Iain Cambridge

GDPR has been in place for years now, and we’re starting to learn more and more about how it’s going to be enforced and what it really means. The many questions people had that could only be answered by court decisions have now been answered. Over the past years, I’ve seen systems try and fail to correct implement GDPR. Here are the things I’ve learnt from court decisions and from mistakes made.

· 2 min read
Iain Cambridge

If you want to operate within the EU you need to follow the strict data privacy law, GDPR. And many of use are searching for the best GDPR compliance tools.

Some of the things you need to pay attention to with GDPR are:

  • Cookie and Localstorage usage
  • Where the data is stored
  • If processing personal data without need
  • Where the company is based.