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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. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can't be free without safety and privacy.
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.
Or jump straight to your favorite section.
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, the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version added a feature to render a Twig block with the Template attribute, improved the Serializer with a snake case to camel case name converter, and added support for new operators in the ExpressionLanguage component. In addition, we published new talks for the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference, including sessions on containerization with DDEV and best practices for Symfony."
A Week of Symfony #921 (19-25 August 2024)
They also have:
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: GraphQL, REST or RPC? Making the choice!
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: HTTP compression in Symfony apps
Blackfire has:
Scaling for success: load testing your app for Black Friday – part 3
Featured Item
Tomas Votruba writes:
Recently, I listened to Lex Friedman's podcast with Pieter Levels. Pieter talked about his technology stack for building startups: vanilla PHP, jQuery, and SQLite.
Hype is exciting, but there is no better technology proof than long-term usage by sustainable business.
The podcast inspired me to write my views about why PHP is the best choice for long-term success.
PHP is the Best Choice for Long‑Term Business
There is more about Pieter below in a New Stack article. I wholeheartedly endorse his approach.
This Week
Felix Dziekan says:
Typo3 + Symfony = Translations
Bhavin Nakrani has:
Symfony Form Magic: 7 Field Options That Will Transform Your Forms
Symfony Form CollectionType Explained
Fernando Castillo shares:
Php and Postgres team up to optimize multi-inserts
David Garcia explains:
How I Optimise Symfony-based Apps
StrangeBuzz explores:
Playing with the Symfony tagged iterator
Joubert Red Rat has:
Testes de Integração no Symfony com Testcontainers
CMSs
TYPO3 has:
Has Open Source Won if We Sacrifice a Freedom? A Report from Drupaljam Utrecht
TYPO3-EXT-SA-2024-006: Multiple vulnerabilities in "powermail" (powermail)
Bringing Best Practices on Track
Marketing Factory examines:
User-friendly customization of the TYPO3 backend
Great stuff.
Joomla has:
Joomla 5.1.4 and Joomla 4.4.8 are here!
Drupal has:
Drupal Starshot Initiative update for the end of August 2024
Wim Leers has:
Experience Builder: XB week 12 - component previews & StorablePropShape
XB is starting to look good!
Experience Builder: XB week 13 - location, location & OpenAPI
Mike Herchel shares:
Five Ideas for the Drupal Association
Solid advice. Except for number 2.
Image X examines the:
Gutenberg Editor: an Alternative Approach to Creating Drupal Content Pages
Great stuff. There is no need to wait on Starshot's Experience Builder for easy, yet complex editing.
Do the Woo shares an interview:
From WordPress to Drupal, Insights and Innovations with Malcolm Peralty
Git Guardian looks at:
Drupal GovCon 2024: Securing The Government's Open-Source Web Applications
The Drop Times explores:
Drupal GovCon 2024: Drupal’s Pivotal Role in Government CMS and Accessibility
Amazee has a:
Tag1 Consulting continues a series:
Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: Migrating field storage and instance settings
Smartbees shows us:
How to Create a Multilingual Drupal Site?
Drupalize Me announces:
We Updated the Drupal User Guide for Drupal 11
Speaking of, Evolving Web has:
Drupal 11: New Features to Empower Ambitious Site Builders
Darren Oh says:
Very cool.
PHP
This Week
Peter Fox examines:
Mastering Code Refactoring: A Complete Guide to Using Rector PHP
Jochelle Mendonca looks at:
Why PHP’s __invoke Might Be Your Best Kept Secret!
Valerio Barbera shares:
PHP Attributes: how to use PHP Attributes and create custom attribute classes
Oladipupo Isaac Tunji shows us:
How To Build And Distribute Desktop Apps Using PHP And PHPDesktop: A Step-by-Step Guide
Fernando Muller Jr. looks at:
Configuring AWS SDK for PHP with S3
Gabriel Olivério explores:
Laravel News shows us:
How to Build Your First PHP Package
Evgeniy shares:
How CheckStat was created: Real-time site analytics
Paulo Cavalcante has:
Horas é uma variável de ambiente, vou usar o ENV. Calma, calma, deixa eu te falar uma coisa antes
Accesto opines:
The PHP Foundation — the future of PHP is in good hands!
PHP examines:
Using and Mentioning Third-party Packages in PHP Documentation and Web Projects
ServBay looks at:
The Best Visual Configuration Tool for PHP Developers: ServBay Makes Development Easy
Binu Mathew explores:
Leveraging PHP Fibers for Concurrent Web Scraping: A Real-World Example
Dragan Rapić examines:
Concurrency vs. Parallelism in PHP
Tideways looks at:
Choosing a PHP Library based on Performance
Roberto Butti shows us:
How to auto-generate the image Alt-Text using AI and Transformers PHP
Jump24 shares the:
Benefits of writing clean, maintainable code
More Programming
Tara Tarakiyee asks:
Is the Open Source Bubble about to Burst?
Baldur Bjarnason explores:
The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
Ars Technica reports:
Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition
Nonprofit scrubs illegal content from controversial AI training dataset
Mark Nottingham shares:
Jetbrains examines:
Dries Buyaert looks at:
Setting up a new computer with Homebrew
Sal Ferrarello fixes:
Git Alias Tab Completion Not Working
The New Stack reports:
Valkey Is a Different Kind of Fork
Elasticsearch announces:
Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again
Free Code Camp shows us:
How to Create Interactive HTML Prototypes – How Far Can You Go Without JavaScript?
CSS Tricks has:
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-08-21)
The New Stack reports:
Developers Rail Against JavaScript ‘Merchants of Complexity’
This times a hundred. It's also the article mentioned in the Featured Item section.
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 @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.
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
The Next Web reports:
Independence Day: how Ukraine’s tech sector is fueling the fight for freedom
Wired reports:
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Lawfare Media reports:
Can We Count on the Supreme Court If Democracy Is at Stake?
Obviously not. So if you are a U.S. citizen, vote! Democracy advocates have to win big if you ever want to vote again.
The Kyiv Independent reports:
Is Telegram, Ukraine’s most popular messenger app, a Russian Trojan horse?
Cybersecurity/Privacy
404 Media reports:
Here’s the Pitch Deck for ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting
Creative Commons explores:
Questions for Consideration on AI & the Commons
Fediverse / ActivityPub
The New Stack shares:
A Developer’s Guide to ActivityPub and the Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 81
Other Federated Social Media
Arxiv has a paper:
Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky
Bluesky announces:
New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky
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