Symfony Station Communiqué — 10 February 2023.
A look at Symfony, Drupal, PHP, and Cybersecurity news.
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony. Highlight -> “This week, Symfony 4.4.50, 5.4.20, 6.0.20, 6.1.12, and 6.2.6 were released to address some security issues related to CSRF tokens and cookie headers in HTTP Cache. Moreover, we celebrated the companies that back Symfony 6.2 development and announced the SymfonyLive Paris 2023 conference workshops.“
A Week of Symfony #840 (30 January - 5 February 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - The schedule is complete and online!
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Symfony and Hotwire: make an interactive front-end without too much effort
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Tests in a Symfony application
SymfonyCasts continued its API Platform course.
Featured Item
Software Crisis says:
I’ve pointed out before that Programming is a Pop Culture. But, this isn’t an issue that’s specific to programming or software development. It’s an issue that plagues the entire tech industry.
Tech Companies Are Irrational Pop Cultures
So true. Unfortunately.
And in a similar more optimistic vein Brandeis Marshall says:
Say Goodbye to the Tech-First Era, The humanity-first movement is here and staying awhile
This Week
Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explains:
Making a Symfony third-party bundle extensible
Serializing API outputs with Symfony serializer
Manuel Canga shows us how to:
Fix Symfony 6.x tests with PHPUnit 10
The Register reports:
HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins
Yan Ivanov explores:
Optimizing One-To-Many Doctrine collections
Jolicode shows us:
How to Fix Memory Leak in Doctrine Migrations
eCommerce
Lemberg Solutions shows us:
How to Build a B2B eCommerce Marketplace with Drupal Commerce?
CMSs
The Drop Times interviews Adam Varn of Florida DrupalCamp:
Don't Exert Too Much Effort on Headless: Adam Varn | FLDC
Andrey Rudenko reviews Drupal’s new:
!#Code looks at:
Drupal 10: Migrating Flags With The Migrate Module
The Droptimes’ Sebin A Jacog asks:
Wish Drupal Would Offer an Official JavaScript Client Sometime: Brian Perry I think this may be in the works (but I’m not sure).
Speaking of which, Specbee shares:
Taming JavaScript in Drupal (Includes FAQs)
Golems asks:
WebWash examines:
Customize View Fields using Twig in Drupal
If you aren’t familiar with the Twig templating engine, see our article, Twig: The Ultimate Guide to the Premier PHP Templating Language.
Drupal and PHPStan developer extraordinaire Matt Glaman explores:
Using the new add_suggestion Twig filter in Drupal 10
Yay Twig!
He also has:
phpstan-drupal 0.12.15: Improved detection of deprecated service usage
And:
Auto-discovery of global commands in Drush
And he has a book coming out today:
Drupal 10 Development Cookbook Releasing Tomorrow
I have ordered the print version, Matt. So slow down now, bro. I'll buy you a beer at Florida DrupalCamp. ;)
Systemseed looks at:
10 Tips for a Successful Web Development Project for Charities, Nonprofits and NGOs
Pantheon announced:
Pantheon’s LocalDev will be Discontinued in June 2023
Previous Weeks
Ulrich shows us how to:
Manage Elasticsearch indices with elasticsearch-php library
Annai Magazine explores:
New features of the Drupal Group Module 2.0.0/3.0.0
John Freeman looks at the:
PHP
This Week
Morteza Poussaneh shares:
Max Zhuk has:
Design Patterns in PHP 8: State
Laravel Learn examines:
Manipulating Data with Ease: Understanding the Power of Map, Filter, and Fold in PHP
Alin Pintilie looks at:
Victor Todoran says:
Not All Exceptions Are The Same
Nikola Stojiljkovic shares:
The most efficient way to debug problems with PHPUnit mocks
Rector PHP shows us:
How to Upgrade to PHPUnit 10 in Diffs
LordNeic provides an:
Introduction to Pest Testing in PHP
And Laravel News shares:
Testing JSON: API Endpoints with PestPHP
Frontend and accessibility legend Jason Knight starts a great series:
“Poor Man’s” CMS From The Ground Up — Part 1, Planning And Defines
“Poor Man’s” CMS From The Ground Up — Part 2, Outer Markup And Templates
This is an excellent lesson in architecture.
Claudio Ribeiro has a:
Quick Tip: How To Check if a Variable Is Set in PHP
DevNest explores:
Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) with PHP
Symfony Station favorite Andrei Birta examines:
Building Scalable Systems with the Open-Closed Principle
Tom Smykowski looks at:
PHP 8.2+ Boosts Memory Beasts On MacOS
William P continues his series:
30 Days of Automated Testing：Using PHPUnit【D16】
30 Days of Automated Testing：Using PHPUnit【D17】
30 Days of Automated Testing：Using PHPUnit【D18】
30 Days of Automated Testing：Using PHPUnit【D19】
30 Days of Automated Testing：Using PHPUnit【D20】
Derick Rethans has an:
Previous Weeks
Camilo Herrera looks at:
Malware Detection in Web scripts with Regex, md5 checksum and PHP
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 opines:
Lessons From the Cold War: How Quality Trumps Quantity in Cybersecurity
The Hacker News reports:
U.K. and U.S. Sanction 7 Russians for TrickBot, Ryuk, and Conti Ransomware Attacks
The Guardian reports:
TikTok: how the west has turned on gen Z’s favorite app
TechCrunch reports:
EU’s top diplomat fires warning shot at Elon Musk over Twitter disinformation
The Guardian reports: Fury in Ukraine as Elon Musk’s SpaceX limits Starlink use for drones
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Hacker News reports:
Russian Hackers Using Graphiron Malware to Steal Data from Ukraine
Wired reports:
The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat
The Guardian reports:
State-linked hackers in Russia and Iran are targeting UK groups, NCSC warns
The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare reports:
Russia's Role in the Far-Right Truck Convoy
Bloomberg reports:
TikTok Reveals Russian Disinformation Network Targeting European Users
The Register reports:
Surprise! China's top Android phones collect way more info
That’s a sarcastic “Surprise!” in the headline.
Business Insider reports:
The New York Times reports:
Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots
The Guardian has an opinion piece reporting on:
A world in which your boss spies on your brainwaves? That future is near.
Wired asks:
Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Ars Technica reports:
Hackers are selling a service that bypasses ChatGPT restrictions on malware
VentureBeat reports on:
Getting results from your zero-trust initiatives in 2023
The Markup shares:
This is a very helpful tool. Very.
Bleeping Computer reports:
Clop ransomware flaw allowed Linux victims to recover files for months
The Hacker News reports:
Encrypted Messaging App Exclu Used by Criminal Groups Cracked by Joint Law Enforcement
More
ZDNets’ Jack Wallen shares:
My idea for a great new beginner-friendly Linux distribution
Business Insider reports:
Let’s hope this is true.
Visual Studio shares:
CodeGPT: write and improve code using AI
Infoworld reports:
Visual Studio Code 1.75 brings configuration profiles
TechCrunch reports:
GitHub CEO on why open source developers should be exempt from the EU’s AI Act
Releem looks at:
How MySQL Configuration Impacts the Performance of Web Applications
Planetscale explores:
Common MySQL errors and how to fix them
I found this holiday series a little late, but 12 Days of Web shares:
Smashing Mag shows us:
How To Build A Magazine Layout With CSS Grid Areas
Alex Russell looks at:
The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted
Another piece on why JavaScript SPA platforms suck.
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023
Here’s another one via Infrequently.
And here’s a Svele resource for you if you have to use a JS frontend:
SvelteStorm: Svelte’s First IDE
Jangwook Kim shares:
A Comprehensive Guide to Debugging Svelte Applications
Fediverse
Ross Schulman shares:
Cloudfare says:
Welcome to Wildebeest: the Fediverse on Cloudflare
This is big news.
Fastly offers a similar service:
Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1
Wired reports:
The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump
While it has a clickbait title that is inaccurate, this article covers a good development. The lazy and stupid people have left Mastodon.
Speaking of which Canadian online reports:
Journalists, You’re Walking Away From A Goldmine
And TechDirt counters with:
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage
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