Symfony Station Communiqué — 06 January 2023.
A look at Symfony, PHP, and Cybersecurity News!
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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. We also cover the cybersecurity world in detail. And there are a good number of Drupal items this week.
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> “This week, Symfony 5.4.18, 6.0.18, 6.1.10, and 6.2.4 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version improved the performance of service container compilation and added a StreamedJsonResponse for efficient JSON streaming.“
A Week of Symfony #835 (26 December 2022 - 1 January 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Appel à étudiants volontaires
Symfony 6.2 "The Fast Track" new translations in Italian and German
Symfony conferences - All you need to know for 2023
SymfonyCasts continued their Netgen Layouts course.
Featured Item
Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks fame writes: “one gets the feeling that if any of the huge platform-producing tech companies could have their way, they’d have us all writing proprietary apps for their platform only. Right this second, the web feels like it’s in a good spot, but it also feels like the native vs. web battle is a swinging pendulum.
Say, somehow, the web is dealt some massive blow, and native apps have all the momentum. As in, for native apps to somehow become the default choice for organizations building digital products.
What does it look like for the web to lose?”
Support PWAs peeps.
This Week
Nacho Colomina publishes two articles this week:
Managing API responses for exceptions on Symfony using KernelEvents
Creating your own security attribute with Symfony
.com software looks at:
Binding Self-Validating Domain Models to Symfony Forms
I ran across a new book with a Symfony section by Gunnard Engebreth:
David Garcia asks:
Why are there developers that say the Symfony PHP Framework is slow?
Mauceri Paola shows us how to:
Set up Nelmio Bundle with Symfony
And:
Why every developer should care about API documentation
eCommerce
Tschallacka shows us:
How to persist data between requests for form validation in Magento 2
CMSs
Abi Walker shares:
9 reasons to upgrade to Drupal 9 or 10 from Drupal 7
And in a similar vein, David Kirkwood examines upgrading and asks:
To Drupal, or Not to Drupal: Part 1
Matt Robison explores:
Golems shows us how to:
Enable Responsive Layouts with Viewport Meta Tag
And Balaji Dharma shows us:
How to display the contact form as a block in Drupal
The Peoples Blog examines:
Colima - a tool like Docker Desktop, for Drupal Development
Also, on the local dev front, Shreyal Mandot shows us:
How To Accelerate Drupal Development with Lando
mandclu explores:
Getting Personal with Dates and Times
WordPress has:
2022: the Gutenberg block developer’s year in review
This is included because you can use Gutenberg with Drupal.
Previous Weeks
Nadiia Nykolaichuk looks at how to:
Simplify the installation of Drupal modules with Project Browser
PHP
This Week
Andrei Birta has two articles for us:
PHP Magic methods call() and callStatic()
Digital Owl's Prose has a guest post on:
5 PHP web scraping libraries that you should use
Valerio of Inspector fame asks:
PeakD explores:
Running Lando on GitHub Actions
We found a fantastic source of PHP articles via Mastodon. Gunnard Engebreth wrote the PHP 8 book we mentioned above so it’s no surprise he’s diving into 8.2 with a series of blog posts:
PHP 8.2: null, false, and true as stand-alone types
PHP 8.2 : Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) Types
orhanerday has two articles on “AI” and PHP:
Tideways looks at:
Tideways » PHP Performance in 2022: A Year in Review
WilliamP is starting:
30 Days of PHPUnit Automated Testing【Day 1】
David Carr shares how to:
PHP Generate a UL menu from an array
And Farhan Tanvir shares:
7 Useful JetBrains IDE Plugins to Make Your Life Easier
Tomas Votruba shows us:
How to release PHP 8.1 and 7.2 package in the Same Repository
David Loor asks:
What are the benefits of PHP 8.1 and the Commands to upgrade from an older version on Nginx?
Matus Stafura shares an:
Introduction to Doubly Linked List and Basic Operations in PHP
Previous Weeks
Junaid Qadir examines:
Publishing Your First Composer Package
Andrei Birta has a good article to bookmark:
How to set PHP environment on Windows 10 and 11
Other
Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).
The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
Darkreading reports on:
War and Geopolitical Conflict: The New Battleground for DDoS Attacks
Reuters reports:
Russia risks causing IT worker flight with remote working law
The New York Times reports:
Russian Troops’ Use of Cellphones Is a Persistent, Lethal Danger
The Associated Press reports:
Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Ukraine Has Digitized Its Fighting Forces on a Shoestring
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Reuters has an:
Exclusive: Russian hackers targeted U.S. nuclear scientists
The Intercept reports:
Hacked Russian Files Reveal Propaganda Agreement With China
Euronews reports:
Pro-Russian agents working to turn Germany against Ukraine
Phil Rosen reports:
Voice of America reports:
Trolling of Female Asian Journalists on Rise as Beijing Seeks to Discredit Media
Sounds like a particular political party in the United States.
Speaking of which, Rolling Stone reports:
Leaked Jan. 6 Committee Report Exposes Twitter's Post-Insurrection Chaos
Cybersecurity/Privacy
VentureBeat reports:
Defensive vs. offensive AI: Why security teams are losing the AI war
BleepingComputer reports:
Ransomware gang cloned victim’s website to leak stolen data
The Hacker News reports:
The FBI's Perspective on Ransomware
DarkReading shares:
Beyond the Obvious: The Boldest Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023
Andrew Plato has:
Cybersecurity Anti-Predictions for 2023
CNN reports:
Hackers post email addresses linked to 200 million Twitter accounts, security researchers say
The Washington Post reports:
Europe’s cybersecurity dance card is full
And that’s a good thing.
They also have:
U.S. national cyber strategy to stress Biden push on regulation
The Next Web looks at:
EU tech policy predictions: What to expect in 2023
More
They also have:
How the EU plans to take on big tech in 2023
Douglas Rushkoff looks at:
The Year Tech Bro Lunacy Was Exposed
Opensource shares:
7 Git articles every open-source practitioner should read
Mickaël Andrieu shows us:
How to Use Google BigQuery for FREE
Ahmad Shadeed explains:
Ryan Carniato looks at:
JavaScript Frameworks - Heading into 2023
Nouman Rahman shares:
Why Svelte is becoming the next React and I love it
SmashingMag looks at:
TechCrunch looks:
Inside Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable
Ars Technica explores:
Mastodon - and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers
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