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Weekly review of Symfony and PHP development news. 3/03/23

This highlights post originally appeared as a communiqué on Symfony Station, your source for cutting-edge Symfony, PHP, and Cybersecurity news.

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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)

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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:

Serializing Data In PHP

And on a related note, Veshraj Ghimire explores a:

Deserialization Disaster in PHP

Lukasz explores:

Asynchronous PHP

This is an interesting article, as he is not discussing threads.

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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.

HTML Elements Index

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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