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Welcome to this week's Symfony Station news highlights. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse.
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> “This week, the first beta of Symfony 6.3 was released so you can test it in your applications before its final release at the end of May 2023. Meanwhile, Symfony UX 2.8 version was published with two new components and massive updates in live components. Finally, we published more information about the workshops of the upcoming SymfonyOnline June 2023 conference.“
A Week of Symfony #853 (1-7 May 2023)
Symfony announced:
New in Symfony 6.3: Emoji Improvements
New in Symfony 6.3: Webhook and RemoteEvent Components
New in Symfony 6.3: Clock Improvements
New in Symfony 6.3: DX Improvements (Part 1)
SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Take the lightning talks challenge!
SensioLabs shares:
Interview: We describe your future job at SensioLabs
SymfonyCasts continues its API Platform course:
Featured Item
Chris James says user expectations of the web are now that you have this super-smooth no-reload experience. Unfortunately, it's an expectation that is usually delivered with single-page applications (SPAs) that rely on libraries and frameworks like React and Angular, which are very specialized tools that can be complicated to work with.
A new approach is to put the ability to deliver this UX back into the hands of engineers that built websites before the SPA-craze, leveraging their existing toolsets and knowledge, and HTMX is the best example I've used so far.
HTMX is the Future
It might not be the future by itself. But it and similar solutions like Hotwire will be.
This Week
John Kim has this article that reeks of AI but is still useful for newbies:
How To Become A Symfony Developer: Skills And Tips - Stars Fact
Jean-Yves Curien explores:
SOLID Principles: Part 5, Dependency Inversion
Rafel Beraldo examines:
Symfony/Doctrine migrations for multiple databases
jmau111
Symfony 5: The ubiquitousness of API Platform
CMSs
Amazee Labs looks at the:
Benefits of Drupal Gutenberg for Content Editors
And they are bounteous.
Christophe Jossart expands the discussion with:
Gutenberg with Drupal part 1: Blocks attribute decorator
Drupal itself has:
New Drupal core branching scheme introduced
Also for Drupal core, The Droptimes shows us:
How Drupal Improves Accessibility
Jacob Rockowitz asks:
How is the Schema.org Blueprints module different from a Drupal Distribution and Recipe?
This is good.
Veniz Guzman presents:
The Non-Profit’s Guide to Drupal Structured Data SEO
See schema above.
Lullabot has:
Questions to Ask When Choosing a Drupal Hosting Platform
R.S. Ahmad shares a:
Guide for Drupal Custom Theme Development
I may combine this with a Drupalize .me course I bought to start on the Symfony Station redesign.
Mike Herchel says:
Disabling Twig Caching Just Got A Helluva Lotta Easier (in Drupal 10.1)!
Five Jars shares a:
Security Checklist for Drupal Website
Four Kitchens explores:
Getting started with Drupal 10
PHP
This Week
Kévin Dunglas shows us how to:
Mitigate Attacks on your PHP Supply Chain
Khalid Zeiter looks at:
Basic Debugging Techniques in PHP
Miladev95 shares:
Khalid Zeiter explores:
Getting Started with Event-Driven Architecture in PHP
Olle Harstedt examines:
Strategies to make functions pure
Rodrigo Javornik looks at:
PeakD looks at:
Running Lando on GitHub Actions
Other
Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Axios reports:
Biden administration's push for a software ingredient list, explained
Dark Reading reports:
CISA Addresses 'Cyber Poor' Small Biz, Local Government
Protect Privacy reports:
The Four Horsemen of the Cybersecurity Apocalypse: A Digital Pandemic Unleashed
Tech Target reports:
Addressing the confusion around shift-left cloud security
Harvard Business Review reports:
Cybersecurity Needs to Be Part of Your Product’s Design from the Start
Obvious, but still yes, yes, and yes.
Tech Republic reports:
Google offers certificate in cybersecurity, no dorm room required
The Register reports:
EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers
More Programming
VentureBeat reports:
How headless and composable are different and why it matters
Smashing Magazine shows us:
How To Use AI Tools To Skyrocket Your Programming Productivity
GitHub announces:
Push protection is generally available and free for all public repositories
Web .dev announces:
A better responsiveness metric
Google is about to @$$ream SPAs in Core Web Vitals.
Stephanie Eckles has:
An Introduction to Container Queries in CSS
I need to master this.
Workadventu has an excellent case study:
The Guardian published:
Greed, eugenics, and giant gambles: author Malcolm Harris on the deadly toll of Silicon Valley capitalism
Fediverse
Stefan Bohacek says:
I agree 2,358%.
Filipe Espósito reports:
Ivory for Mastodon gets updated with Safari Extension and other enhancements
The headline should say Fediverse rather than Mastodon. And Ivory is worth every penny.
Jonathan Wylie asks:
What is Mastodon and Is It the Future of Social Media?
Michał Woźniak looks at the:
Jowi Morales shows us how to:
How to Sign Up for a Mastodon Account
Again, choose phpc.social or drupal.community rather than mastodon.social.
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