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Welcome to this week's edition of The Payload. 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.

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 Thursdays. So you can savor it over your weekend.

Or scroll down 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.

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As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> "This week, Symfony development activity was calmer than usual because of the summer holidays. In addition to some fixes and tweaks in existing features, the community proposed new features for upcoming Symfony versions such as a Week number constraint and improvements in AssetMapper code, and the HtmlDumper links

A Week of Symfony #918 (29 July - 4 August 2024)

Drupal 11 came out since our last communiqué with some good improvements it desperately needed. There are several reviews in this edition.

Lullabot shares:

Drupal 11: What’s New and What’s Next

This week

David Garcia shares:
5 reasons why Symfony is the BEST Framework for PHP

Most flexible is more like it.

Accessto explores:
Understanding Symfony Versions and Roadmap

Alexander Bondars examines:
Extended Symfony project structure

Naâmèn Mohamed Amine shares:
Top packages PHP à utiliser avec le framework Symfony en 2024

Why I still choose the Symfony framework for my major projects in 2024

Good overview.

Symfony Level Up has a new edition:
Level 5: PHP8.4, upload and emojis

Wouter de Jong shows us how to:
Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes

eCommerce

ADCI Solutions looks at:
Preparing a Drupal online store for the holiday rush

Sylius has:
Month of Sylius: July

CMSs


TYPO3 has:
Oliver Klee Transitions From Co-Lead to Team Member in Best Practices Team
July 2024: Developer Appreciation Day (DAD)

Additional On-Site TYPO3 Certifications

Introducing the Advanced Error Log Extension

And Pluswerk has a:
Review of TYPO3 Developer Days 2024



Drupal has:
How did we get to Ripple Makers? The Evolution of the Drupal Membership Program

Preparing for Drupal 7 End of Life: Key Steps to Take Now

The Bounty program: Starshot edition

Updated window for Drupal.org login flow deployment

Dries Buyaert is:
Introducing Drupal Starshot's product strategy

Acquia has an announcement:
Acquia Announces Support for Drupal 11

ImageX is:
Exploring the Drupal 11 Release: New Features and Major Enhancements

Orion Web announces:
Drupal 11 is released

DarkDim examines:
Extended Review of Backward Compatibility Questions When Upgrading to Drupal 11

Good stuff but poor branding.

Tag1 Consulting continues its series:
Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: Migrating taxonomy vocabularies and D7 field collections into D10 paragraphs

Robert Roose says:
Let your Drupal website perform actions without the need for programming

Akansha Saxena continues her series:
Inside the Codebase: A Deep Dive Into Drupal Rag Integration

The Drop Times looks at:
Introducing Dresktop: Multi-Platform Tool for Drupal Project Management

Very, very cool.

Specbee shows us:
How to split configurations across different sites in Drupal 10

Interesting.

Previous Weeks

Cezar Campos explores:
The least privileged principle applied to Symfony firewalls

Hugo Alliau has:
A Better Architecture for Your Symfony UX Twig Components

Efficience IT examines:
Monofony — Le guide ultime pour les débutants

Acquia looks at:
Changing to Drupal and Maintaining Search Engine Rankings

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PHP

This week

Ash Allen Design reviews:
Profanify: Prevent Profanity in Your PHP Codebase

Indeed. Save your profanity for your articles and newsletters. 😈

Saeedan Tech shows us how to:
Ensure High Availability in Your Microservices Architecture

Raziel Rodrigues explores:
PHP Creational Patterns: Factory

Doğan Uçar shares:
PHP 8.4: Release Date and Features, August 2024

Itsimiro examines:
Unlocking the Foreign Function Interface (FFI) in PHP

Inspector looks at:
PHP Iterators for walking through data structures – FastTips

Stitcher says:
I don't write code the way I used to

N0nag0n explores the:
Best PHP Micro Frameworks for 2024

Spo0q examines:
PHP: Understanding Time Zones

What's up with these user names?

Dragan Rapić looks at:
Asynchronous Programming with PHP

HashBangCode explores:
Generating Colour Palettes From Images In PHP

Derick Rethans announces:
Xdebug Update: July 2024

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More Programming

Plain Vanilla Web announces:
Plain Vanilla

The greatest website development resource of all time.

On a related note, Christian Heilmann shares:
Talk notes: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web

Heydonworks examines:
The abbr element

Smashing Magazine says:
It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5”

The Register reports:
Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers

Heisee reports:
Visual Studio Code 1.92 offers the choice of a default browser

Fernando Castillo looks at:
Postgres: type casting for writing better queries

Tideways explores:
Dealing with MySQL Lock Timeouts: Bail faster

Oliver Davies examines:
Merging unrelated histories

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Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)


Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.

Or get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion on the Fediverse at @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net or via RSS.

Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).

The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery


RTE reports:
DPC takes court action against Twitter over AI data concerns

TechCrunch has:
DSA vs. DMA: How Europe’s twin digital regulations are hitting Big Tech

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

The Prospect reports:
The Corporate Wishcasting Attack on Lina Khan

Not surprising considering she has been kicking the shit out of oligarch's asses.

The Nerd Reich reports:
Kamala Harris vs. The Nerd Reich of Silicon Valley

Cybersecurity/Privacy

DarkReading reports:
Protect Data Differently for a Different World

The Kyiv Post reports:
UK Submarine Manufacturer’s Intranet Coding Outsourced to Belarus and Russia

Software supply chains people.

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The Fediverse

The Nexus Of Privacy has:
4 things white people can do to start making the Fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

Patchwork looks at:
Organisations and content creators enter the Fediverse

I think Flipboard and WordPress will both pass Mastodon in terms of numbers.

CTAs (aka show us some free love)

Do you own or work for an organization that would be interested in our promotion opportunities? If so, please get in touch with us. We’re in our infancy, so it’s extra economical. 😉

More importantly, if you are a Ukrainian company with coding-related products, we can offer free promotion on our Support Ukraine page. Or, if you know of one, get in touch.


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