Reuben Walker, Jr.This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station, your source for cutting-edge Symfony and PHP news.
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> “This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version added features such as allowing to extend the #[When] attribute, adding conditional types to conditional configuration builders, introduced a new messenger:count command that lists the pending messages per transport and improved the #IsGranted attribute to allow using expressions.“
A Week of Symfony #814 (1-7 August 2022)
Symfony announced:
Zoom in on Advanced Security with Symfony workshop at SymfonyCon Disneyland Paris 2022
SymfonyCasts finishes their Symfony 6 Fundamentals Course and announce a new one.
Featured Item
While not the most important post of the week, we think our latest article on local PHP development tools is useful. Please read:
Dream Universal, Develop Local: A look at PHP Local Development Tools.
This Week
Wordsys Technology shares:
5 Reasons Why You Should Use Symfony Framework for Projects
Saeid Raei explores:
Symfony Testing: using Repository pattern without connecting to database
Dariel Vicedo continues his series:
Creating a Symfony project from zero to success in 52 weeks (week 5)
In Francais Yann Dardot examines:
Enum php 8.1, et les librairie symfony. (Doctrine, graphql-php, api platform)
Big Data Analytics News looks at:
How Symfony Hosting Works Better With Cloudways Managed Hosting
Randy Fay needs your help testing a DDEV and Platform.sh integration.
GitHub - platformsh/ddev-platformsh: Add integration with Platform.sh hosting service
CMSs
bitExpert explores:
Sulu Headless exposing form config
Drupal made:
CSS and JavaScript aggregation performance improvements
Matt Glaman looks at:
ReactPHP for Drupal deployments and workers
Acquia is:
Evaluating Drupal Community Modules
Jacob Rockowitz is:
Defining the goals of the Schema.org Blueprints module
php[architect] has:
Drupal Dab: Creating Content Types in Drupal 9
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Ani Mahant shares:
A Step-by-Step Tutorial to Customize Drupal SearchAPI Facets without AJAX
James Oakley has some Drupal advice for:
Keeping track of upstream security issues
Previous Weeks
specbee shares:
Setting up Responsive Images in Drupal 9 - A Step-by-Step Guide
Promet Source examines:
How to Fix Common Web Accessibility Barriers in Drupal
PHP
This Week
stitcher.io documents:
Deprecated dynamic properties in PHP 8.2
Igieborelvis continues his SOLID PHP series:
SOLID : Fundamental Principles of Software Development using PHP (4)
Derick Rethans has the:
Bentil Shadrack has a good reminder:
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) and ways to prevent it in PHP applications
Richard Dobroň shows us how to:
How to create your first composer package? 🐘
In Francais Karim Pinchon explores:
Matthias Noback looks at:
Simple Solutions 1 - Active Record versus Data Mapper
Andrew Schmelyun details:
The difference between Traits, Interfaces, and Abstract Classes in PHP
The esteemed Kévin Dunglas shows us how to:
Securely Access Private Git Repositories and Composer Packages in Docker Builds
Farhan Tanvir shares yet another:
7 Useful PHP Libraries You Should Use in Your Next ProjectーPart- 4
.com software shares:
Circuit Breaker pattern in PHP
Clean code tricks in PHP everyone should follow
Previous Weeks
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
Protocol reports:
Meta has banned a pro-Russia troll group that organized on Telegram
Rolling Stone reports:
Pro-Putin Trolls Supporting the Ukraine Invasion Can't Stop Screwing Up
The Hill reports:
Putin’s war is economic suicide
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
PCMag reports:
Researchers Look Inside Russian Malware Targeting Ukrainian Power Grid
Useful idiots and Russian assets Amnesty International have criticized Ukraine for housing troops in abandoned schools and daring to shell Russian aircraft in occupied Crimea.
The Guardian reports:
Zelenskiy rebukes Amnesty for accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians
Russia’s private military contractor Wagner comes out of the shadows in Ukraine war
Wired reports:
An Attack on Albanian Government Suggests New Iranian Aggression
The US Offers a $10 Million Bounty for Intel on the Conti Ransomware Gang
Cybersecurity/Privacy
PC Mag reports:
US Sanctions 'Tornado Cash' for Laundering Crypto Funds for North Korea
Decipher reports:
After Log4j, Efforts to ‘Uplift’ Open Source Ecosystem Continue
TechCrunch reports:
Twitter fixes security bug that exposed at least 5.4 million accounts
Twilio hacked by phishing campaign targeting internet companies
Protocol reports:
The SEC's cyberattack reporting rules are seeing fierce opposition. CISA is poised to do better.
ZDNet reports:
Cloudflare was the target of a sophisticated phishing attack. Here's why it didn't work
Computer Weekly reports:
GitHub targets vulnerable open source components
secure.software reports:
NVD Analysis 2022: Why you need to modernize your software security approach
Tech Republic reports:
Cisco reveals cyberattack on its corporate network
More
infoworld shares:
Visual Studio vs. Visual Studio Code: How to choose
The Register reports:
GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash
Nevin Katz reveals:
As a Git-challenged person, I can say it’s a good one.
In Francais Karim Pinchon shares advice for students:
Conseils aux étudiants en développement logiciel
Utkarsh Mathur has a great history piece on the:
Venture Beat shares:
3 ways every company can get started with an open-source software strategy
Ethan Marcotte looks at the source of truth in design systems.
Accessibility and Frontend Illuminati Jason Knight looks at:
And in douchebag news:
Molly White tried to tell you Web3 was not going great before the crypto crash
Dev Class reports:
‘The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it,’ says JSON creator Douglas Crockford
Amen, brother.
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Reuben Walker
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