Weekly review of Symfony and PHP development news. 3/03/23
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony. Highlight -> “This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version experienced an intense development activity to finish many new features such as: adding a remember me option for JSON logins, allowing to trim parameters in XML config files, introducing a new Exclude attribute, allowing to define the batch size in Messenger component and allowing to extend the Autowire attribute.“
A Week of Symfony #843 (20-26 February 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Submit you paper until March 6th!
Blackfire has:
Blackfire, a complete observability solution
This Week
Anton Lytvynov has three good items:
Symfony 6 and PHP 8: A Promising Future for Web Application Development
Creating Custom Web Applications with Symfony 6 and Php 8: A Step-by-Step Guide
Symfony vs. Other Web Frameworks: A Comprehensive Comparison
There’s not much new here information-wise, but some exciting graphics make viewing worthwhile.
Filip Horvat shows us how to:
Set up framework for testing security in API Platform (Symfony)
eCommerce
Lemberg Solutions looks at:
Drupal Commerce + SAP Integration: Solutions and Benefits
CMSs
André Laugks shows us how to:
Use XInclude to organize Content elements in Page templates in Sulu
Hurray, a Sulu CMS piece.
Opensource examines:
3 myths about open source CMS platforms
Matt Glaman wants us to:
Check out the "Drupal at your fingertips" developer reference guide
Very helpful.
Evolving Web shares:
Hands-On With Drupal 10: Discover the Best Modules Through Project Browser
Axelerant looks at:
How Acquia DXP Is Empowering Businesses To Design Digital Experiences
Speaking of Acquia, it and Drupal’s founder, Dries Buytaert opines on:
Artificial Intelligence, the future of Content Management and the Web
He’s much more optimistic than I am.
Previous Weeks
Specbee explores:
Taming JavaScript in Drupal (Includes FAQs)
PHP
This Week
Tomasz Dobrowolski has two articles for us:
9 Essential PHPStorm Shortcuts That Will Skyrocket Your Productivity as a PHP Developer
7 Concepts Every PHP Developer Must Understand To Succeed
Outstanding stuff here.
Florian Bauer shares the cogent point that PHP needs better marketing.
Why PHP should be renamed to HypeScript
php[architect] examines:
And on a related note, Veshraj Ghimire explores a:
Deserialization Disaster in PHP
Lukasz explores:
This is an interesting article, as he is not discussing threads.
Other
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Bleeping Computer reports on:
White House releases new U.S. national cybersecurity strategy
Hackernoon reports:
Network Detection and Response: the Future of Cybersecurity
Portswigger reports:
NIST plots biggest ever reform of Cybersecurity Framework
GovTech reports:
Feds Push Local Election Officials to Boost Security Ahead of 2024
More
Jens Oliver Meiert maintains this handy tool.
Spicyweb points out the obvious:
The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era
JS frontend frameworks are bullshit.
KD Nuggets shares:
SQL Query Optimization Techniques
Fediverse
Andy Piper has:
Thoughts on Dev Rel in the post-Twitter era
There is big news this week from Flipboard.
Via TechCrunch:
Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub
Here’s the official announcement.
The Future of Flipboard Is Federated
So, if you are on Flipboard but not Mastodon, now is the time to join.
And follow us on Flipboard to get an idea of what will be in next week’s communiqué.
The Verge reports:
Mozilla thinks Mastodon could be the next HTTP
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yes this was so low addiction it was nicknamed “crackberry” for no reason
https://twitter.com/nabeelqu/status/1631763601374560259
An Alabama youth girls' basketball team told they would lose their practice facility unless they agreed to play in a boys league was denied the championship trophy, despite winning the whole thing al.com/news/2023/03/h…
@mike_hudy yea the deeper radicalness of Christ is so wild that it gets *immediately* misinterpreted upon contact with mainstream social reality
@visakanv This is a good point & any analysis of the Jesus bit shows it was expressly centered around NOT power or Wins. Be meek, turn cheek, wash feet, service, sacrifice, etc. People rejected BECAUSE no wins lol. Its all anti-ego 4 the collective. God as genie or favorer is so low vision
Just going to point out, this performance would be illegal in Tennessee right now.
This is where we are right now.
https://twitter.com/TraumaSoapBoxes/status/1624912187197165570
we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Between this and Walgreens preemptively halting the sale of abortion pills and so many other examples we can clearly see that the idea of “woke corporations” is just a silly lie. Sometimes they’ll pander to liberal consumers, but they’ll never risk profits to fight the right.
https://twitter.com/EliErlick/status/1632473376705970184
@turtlekiosk lol also it’s struggles are very directly attributable to the ethnonationalism and anti feminism
i love this fantasy world where right wingers think japan is doing super well and has great prospects for the future
https://twitter.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1632138989862780932
@ProfNoahGian Yes, they went from creating a speculative market to increase the value of a PNG to the opposite, creating mass image creation algorithms to devalue the images themselves.
watched a furry build a suit wit light up eyes a movable mouth and tail n all for a cool like $20k them niggas be like tony stark wit dat shit
https://twitter.com/thinkpiecetribe/status/1630630344020881408
when i found out how much money it took to being a furry i stfu and let them niggas cook cause they obvs know what they’re doing
https://twitter.com/hyeussyvol2/status/1632112489662914561
