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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.
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, Symfony 5.4.47, 6.4.15, and 7.1.8 maintenance versions were released. Additionally, the second release candidate of Symfony 7.2 was published, ahead of its final release scheduled for the end of November 2024. Lastly, we published two new security advisories to address some reported security issues in Symfony.
A Week of Symfony #934 (18-24 November 2024)
They also have:
Black Friday 2024 offers from the Symfony Ecosystem
New in Symfony 7.2: Misc. Improvements (Part 1)
New in Symfony 7.2: Misc. Improvements (Part 2)
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: See you next week!
Symfony 7.2 curated new features
Blackfire has:
Information is key: Building alert-triggered profiling with Blackfire
SymfonyCasts has:
Featured Item
TechCrunch reports:
Ai2 releases new language models competitive with Meta’s Llama
Finally an open-source AI product. I will have to update my Ethical AI Stack article.
This Week
Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explores:
Creating focused domain applications. A Symfony approach (Returning the result)
Thomas Dutrion shows us:
How to install Laravel or Symfony using only Composer
Etienne Lebarillier shares:
Another Way to Structure your Symfony Project
Great article.
ServerAvatar shows us:
How to host Symfony on Hostinger VPS - ServerAvatar
eCommerce
Sylius has:
Shopware shares:
General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR): What you need to do now
DarkReading reports:
Sneaky Skimmer Malware Targets Magento Sites Ahead of Black Friday
Yegor Shytikov lists:
Top 13 Magento 2 core performance issues
CMSs
TYPO3 has:
TYPO3 ACL — Report for Q3/2024
TYPO3 Association Introduces NGO, Public Sector, eCommerce, and Industry Memberships
TYPO3 Awards 2024 Highlight the Unique Strengths of the Open Source Community
Wolfgang Wagner promotes:
Business Roundtable: Digital mit TYPO3
Andy provides a:
Recap of TYPO3 Community Sprint Q4 2024
Joomla has:
Your first glimpse at Joomla! 5.3.0 Alpha1
Sergey Tolkachyov examines:
The anatomy of smart search in Joomla 5 Part 1: Introduction
Drupal has:
Join the party & help us launch Drupal CMS in style
ImageX Media has:
Unlocking Drupal Recipes: Instantly Boost Your Website's Features
Latest & Greatest Tips to Enhance Your Higher Ed Website’s Online Presence
Specbee says:
A new Drupal CMS is coming soon: Your top questions answered
Matt Glaman advises:
Restrict Composer dependency updates to only patch releases
Morpht announces:
Custom Meta Module joins Metatag: Unlocking advanced custom tag management
Computer Minds looks at:
Putting 1000 sites behind Cloudflare
Droptica shows us:
How to Migrate Drupal 7 to Drupal 11 with Modules? Guide
The Drop Times reports on:
Automating Single Directory Component Creation in Drupal with YAML Script
Markie is:
Introducing the New ChatGPT-Powered Drupal Answers Portal
Previous Weeks
JoliCode shows us how to:
Écrire des assertions PHPUnit plus simples grâce au VarDumper
BitBag explores:
Unlocking the power of content and product management in Sylius
Acseo shares:
Gérer la surcharge de fonctionnalités dans Sylius : Stratégies et bonnes pratiques
PHP
This Week
Antonio Silva shows us:
Why Using POST for Updates Is Safer Than Hyperlinks
Dan Leach examines:
Markus Staab looks at:
Arief Rahman shows us:
Why PHP Is Often the Target of Exploits: Understanding the Loopholes and How to Anticipate Them
David Duymelinck explores:
The overlooked new php 8.4 features
MD Ariful Haque examines:
PHP Streams: Efficient Data Handling for Large Files
Mahfuzer Rahman asks:
What is PHP Fiber? Does PHP Fiber Really Give You Asynchronous Execution?
Roberto Butti looks at:
Why you should upgrade to PHP 8.4 (or at least a supported PHP version)
Asian Digital Hub explores
How to Use PHP Extensions to Supercharge Your App
Dependency Hell in PHP? Here’s the Secret to Avoiding It.
Previous Weeks
PHP Watch shares a:
PHP 8.4 Installation and Upgrade guide for Ubuntu and Debian
Spo0q examines:
PHP: Practical ways to escape from the hell of Dates
Sangeethmsajan has a peak at:
Daniel Martin show us how to:
Configure Emacs for Web Development (PHP)
More Programming
Yellow Brick Code examines:
DDD, the Natural Evolution of the IT Industry
GitHub looks at:
Breaking down CPU speed: How utilization impacts performance
MIT Technology Review reports:
AI can now create a replica of your personality
Awesome. :(
The Next Web reports:
These will be the most in-demand skills for developers in 2025
MD. Feraj Mukatadir asks:
What is CloudLinux? An Overview of the Leading Operating System for Web Hosting
Interesting.
Smashing Magazine covers:
Harvard Business School determines:
The Value of Open Source Software
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
Cory Doctorow reports:
Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform
This is the kind of work we need to be doing.
The Guardian reports:
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
Awesome.
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Register reports:
The workplace has become a surveillance state
The Guardian reports:
When will Democrats finally realize that big tech is not an ally?
I've been beating this dead horse for years. Hence, an entire fucking section of Defending Democracy each week.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
DarkReading reports:
Closing the Cybersecurity Career Diversity Gap
The Register reports:
US senators propose law to require bare minimum security standards
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 94
Tyler Fisher
Quote: Sill streamlines your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to give you a clear picture of what’s happening.
Mashable reports:
Open-source TikTok alternative Loops coming to the Fediverse
Short videos aren't my thing, but it's from the Pixelfed team which is my favorite federated app.
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in the ATmosphere – The Links -2411.d
Michael Taggart has:
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