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I had a death in the family this week (welcome not tragic) that took up several days, so this is an abbreviated edition.
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As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight - “This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.4 continued deprecating features that will be removed in Symfony 7.0, like the doctrine/annotations integration. Meanwhile, we published an article to explain how to prepare for Symfony 6.4 and 7.0 releases, and we announced a new talk for the SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 conference (October 5-6).”
A Week of Symfony #864 (17-23 July 2023)
PlatformSH shares their latest:
There is news on ElasticSearch and Drupal 7 EOL
Drupal, TYPO3, Joomla, and WordPress have an:
Gabriel Anhaia explores:
Implementing Feature Toggles in Symfony
Romaixn shows you how to:
Supercharge your application's performance: Consuming Symfony messenger messages with Go
Cristiano Pacheco examines:
Configuring a docker environment for a Magento 2 project
Laravel News has a:
Joomla says:
Mark Your Calendars for 26th August 2023. Joomla’s next PBF!
The Drupal Association’s July newsletter is out:
Dries Buytaert has:
Kevin Wenger looks at the:
Factory Lollipop, speeding up Kernel Tests on Drupal
HashBangCode explores:
Drupal 10: Creating A Notification System Using The Message And ECA Modules
The Penyaskito Blog is:
Introducing The Dashboard Initiative
Drupal will:
Create new SDC component for Umami Branding
Umami is a Drupal demo theme pre-populated with content.
Specbee shares:
How to Showcase your Content as Page and Block Views in Drupal
Matt Glaman shows us how to:
Speed Up Developer Onboarding with DDEV Snapshots from Your CI
Fenix has:
Drupalize Me has a new tutorial:
New Tutorial: Start a New Theme with Starterkit
This looks like a solid one.
Jhonatan Morais shares:
A study of session sharing across systems that use cookie-based authentication
Wanadev Digital shows us how to:
Gain in performance and development comfort: overview of what's new in Symfony 6.3
Nico Anastasio shows us:
How to implement Behat into your PHP project
Laravel News shares:
Watch Marcel Pociot's "NativePHP" Presentation from Laracon
Abdellah Aarab has some details in post form:
NativePHP: Empowering Developers to Build Attractive Native Desktop Apps with PHP
Mimranisrar explains:
Gabriel Anhaia examines:
Visitor + PHP (Design Patterns)
Peter Hrobar looks at:
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TechCrunch reports on:
Tech warriors in the battle for Israel’s democracy
Israel has never been much of a democracy and the current c*nts in charge are trying kill off what little is left.
The Markup reports: How to Buy Ed Tech That Isn’t Evil
Dark Reading reports: North Korean Cyberspies Target GitHub Developers
China Propaganda Spreads via US News Sites, Freelancers, Times Square
Bleeping Computer reports:
Norwegian government IT systems hacked using zero-day flaw
The Hacker News reports:
New OpenSSH Vulnerability Exposes Linux Systems to Remote Command Injection
SitePoint has:
10 Simple CSS and JavaScript Micro-interactions for Buttons
Postman compares:
API Architectural Styles: REST vs. SOAP vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC
Jared White looks at:
We Distribute shares:
"FediForum" Virtual Unconference is Coming Back in September!
We mentioned this last week, but We Distribute has more details:
CalcKey Officially Rebrands as Firefish
TechCrunch reports: As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring
PCMag asks:
Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives?
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