This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station.
Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can't be free without safety and privacy.
There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. This is why we publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend.
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Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> "This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version improved the hashing of assets in AssetMapper and added support for the RFC4122 format in the Ulid constraint. In addition, Symfony proposed some changes in config resources tracking."
A Week of Symfony #919 (5-11 August 2024)
They also have:
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Carry out the best audit for your client
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: A brand-new way to serialize data in Symfony
Blackfire has:
Scaling for success: load testing your app for Black Friday – part 2
SymfonyCasts has:
Featured Item
This week it's really two interesting items.
Dragan Rapić examines asymmetrical PHP:
This Week
Denis Bélanger explores:
Using Symfony LoginFormAuthenticator to Solve Null Email
Tobi Brooks explains:
Why Symfony 4 Reached End of Life
Mark Badolato shows us how to:
Inject Value Objects Into An Autowired Symfony Service
Naâmèn Mohamed Amine shares:
What’s new in Symfony 2024: essential updates for developers
One version behind, but very extensive.
eCommerce
Roman Agabekov shows us:
How MySQL Tuning Can Improve PrestaShop Performance
CMSs
TYPO3 has:
A Recap of TYPO3 Developer Days 2024
The Countdown Is On: TYPO3 Awards 2024 — One Month Left to Submit Your Project!
Mike Street shares:
A summary of TYPO3 Developer Days 2024
In2Code shows us how to:
This is in German, so have your browser translator handy if you need it.
Drupal has:
Drupal CMS: the official name for Drupal Starshot
Very creative. 😴
ImageX Media shares:
Easy Recipes with Placeholder Tokens for Your Drupal Website’s Optimization
The Drop Times examines:
Drupal GovCon 2024: The Heartbeat of the DC Drupal community
Specbee shows us:
Tag1 Consulting continues a series:
Migrating Your Data from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10: Preparing for field migrations
Golems breaks down:
Scaling and Performance Optimization of Drupal
Dev Collaborative asks:
You Hate Your Website, Who’s To Blame?
ImageX Media reviews:
Bold, Sleek, and Endlessly Customizable: the Gin Theme for Next-Level Drupal Admin Experiences
Great theme. And a eye-saver before Claro came along.
Prometsource covers:
Drupal GovCon: Transforming Federal Digital Experiences
Joshi helps with:
Choosing Between Drupal Core and Drupal CMS: A Comprehensive Guide
Previous Weeks
MD Systems looks at:
Improved memory usage in token module
Laminas promotes:
Using Laminas Continuous Integration
PHP
This Week
Laravel News explores:
Laravel Log Files Support in PhpStorm
The same goes for Symfony and WordPress.
JetBrains announces:
PhpStorm 2024.2 Is Now Available
Sarah Savage asks:
Is there a place for manual testing in software development?
Denys Kontorsky shows us:
How to Set up Email Verification in PHP via a Verification Token: Complete Guide
Stitcher has an update on Tempest:
Amir Reza Mehrbakhsh shows us:
Violet Alexander looks at:
Deep understanding of the Workerman daemon principle in PHP high-performance framework
In this case, Laravel.
Winkel Wagen shows us:
We Are Developers has:
Processing 175 WeAreDeveloper World Congress talk videos in 5 hours - with PHP?
Wow.
Essaadani Younes says:
Program to interface NOT implementation
It's Imiro shares:
Why I Like the Strategy Pattern
Ismail has a history lesson:
The PHP and MySQL Friendship: A Timeline of Innovation, Collaboration, and Disruption
Florian Engelhardt asks:
To double quote or not, that's the question!
Valerio Barbera shows us:
How to monitor Guzzle Http Client
More Programming
Fabio Mananiello is:
IT Next explores:
I like the looks of this, but some of the missing functionality is nice to have. I run into some of the same issues with LibreWolf (a fork of Firefox).
The Spicy Web examines:
Action Web Components Which Span the Server-Client Divide
SymfonyUX has something similar to this with Turbo and Live Components.
CSS Tricks looks at:
“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries
Sviat Kuzhelev shares:
We Gave Up on Tailwind CSS: Our Decision Behind Switching Back To SASS Modules
Speaking of bullshit like Failwind, here is Part 3 of Infrequently Noted’s series on how Javascript fucked over US public benefits services:
DarkReading reports:
GitHub Attack Vector Cracks Open Google, Microsoft, AWS Projects
Analytics India asks:
Why Developers Are Ditching GitHub Copilot
One Pict opines on the:
Sustainability of FOSS: The NGI Ecosystem
Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)
Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.
Get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion via RSS or on the Fediverse at @[email protected]. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.
Please visit Symfony Stations Support Ukraine pageto learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).
The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
Speaking of Battalion, here is its case study:
Ars Technica reports:
Artists claim “big” win in copyright suit fighting AI image generators
Awesome.
Unprecedented has details on this clusterfuck of an "interview":
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Register reports:
China-linked cyber-spies infect Russian govt, IT sector
Evil on Evil action. 😈
RIP Crowdtangle laments:
Losing CrowdTangle is a huge and exhausting setback in our hate speech research
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Jan Wildeboer shares:
The two tales of xz-utils and Crowdstrike
TechCrunch reports:
FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies
Fediverse
Daily Kos reports:
"Mastodon for Harris" Raises Over $500,000 and Growing - Purely on the Fediverse
Flipboard announces:
Now People on Flipboard Can Follow Anyone in the Fediverse
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