The Symfony project produces both decoupled components as well as a full stack PHP framework based on these components. The components have been a success with wide adoption and so has the framework, bringing structure that scales to enterprise complexity. What...
Read Symfony Flex set to enable RAD (Rapid Application Development)Web development is a relatively fast moving industry. Technologies come and go, and while many of them are definite improvements - some are fads that don't have a long shelf life. Perhaps the biggest underlying issue is that developers often don't even take the...
Read Progress requires both stability and innovation, Symfony is nailing itThe team working on the PrestaShop eCommerce platform launched 1.7 on November 7th 2016. This is the first publicly available version which is includes the Symfony Framework by default.The team working on the PrestaShop eCommerce platform launched 1.7 on Novembe...
Read PrestaShop 1.7 starts the Symfony journey for the CommunityDuring the past few days the social media has been fizzling about Open Source infingement by Wix, an Israeli company that provides site people tools they can build websites without technical knowledge. Wix recently released a mobile app that includes a GPL licen...
Read Wix to release full mobile app source code, including the GPL disputed WordPress Rich Text EditorPHP 7.0 made significant improvements in terms of performance and memory use for real applications. Many applications deliver twice the throughput with much less memory just without any changes to the application code. But with networked API driven architecture...
Read What's in store for PHP performance?GraphQL is a technology that allows developers to make queries (and mutations) against an external interface in a structured way. It is similar to REST APIs, but as a more complete specification it is universal and allows true decoupling from a CMS, rather than...
Read A GraphQL Bundle adds protocol support to eZ Platform Symfony CMSThe CQRS/ES pattern pair has been discussed widely in mainstream PHP development circles from mid 2015. There are a number of libraries and the pattern is being applied in at scale in production environments. So the concepts here are certainly mature and ready....
Read Using CQRS/ES for Content Management Systems (CMS)Symfony2 just turned five years old some months ago. This is an eternity in the web world and you average technology stack has likely grown in complexity since then. In addition to the standard components in LAMP you'll likely be peddling with a number of comple...
Read Symfony & staying relevant: React.js rendering, GraphQL and Neo4j OGMAccelerated Mobile Pages is an initiative from Google to speed up mobile browsing. AMP is an open standard based on HTML. It enforces performance by limiting functionality and includes remote caching. Given Google's continuing dominance search both publishers a...
Read How to implement AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) on the eZ Platform CMSWith the summer coming to an end there is increasing activity in the Symfony community in the form of bundles. Recently four interesting Symfony bundles have had interesting status updates: EasyLogHandler, eZ Migration Bundle, Netgen Layouts and Sylius.With the...
Read Symfony Bundle Spotlight: EasyLogHandler, eZ Migration Bundle, Netgen Layouts and SyliusServerless Architectures are the hottest thing right now. Not a lot of people know exactly what they are and if they really need them, but everyone's onboard because they're afraid they're left behind. The largest players for serverless platforms are Amazon, Go...
Read Serverless PHP with Docker(file) and Zeit▲now... Uhm, what?TypeScript is a great complimentary language to JavaScript. With gradual typing and other great features it helps maintain JavaScript applications as they grow larger and larger. The lack of literature is one of the weak points of the language as there is currently no Definitive Book on TypeScript....
Read Free TypeScript book download as PDF, MOBI, EPUBSingle page application frameworks written in JavaScript will need to work well will emerging web standards like Web Components. The Finnish company Vaadin has created a package that enables this with Angular 2 and the Polymer library, both from Google. For a number of years front end JavaScript de...
Read Mixing Angular 2 and Polymer Web ComponentsSvelte is a new way to build UIs on the web. While this may sound like it's been done many times before, Svelte has a different approach. Instead of pushing the complexity of the UI generation and maintenance in form of browser abstractions, Svelte works completely at compile time. The key differen...
Read React vs. Svelte, the JavaScript build-time frameworkThe scene for Node.js developers for a general purpose framework has been fairly stable. Express.js continues to be the number one option, but it is growing a bit long in the tooth and the future of Express remains murky. Express 5 is in the cards, but still in limbo. Koa.js is the other common op...
Read Koa 2, the Node.js framework engineered for async/awaitSearch continues to be the top driver of traffic to a large majority of websites. While Facebook and other social media platform are growing, good visibility in search results (SERP) continues to be crucial. So how to make sure you stay on top in results in the fast-moving web development scene ...
Read Web Components and SEOIn November it was revealed that malware is being spread using SVG and it's capability of containing executable JavaScript code within it. The specific attack has been used widely on Facebook chat and is used as a method to get users to download even more dangerous ransomware. Facebook has a strong...
Read Worm spreading malware via Facebook using SVG, JavaScript and Google Chrome ExtensionThe technical merits of React are hard to challenge. It has sparked a revolution in how developers build web user interfaces - with or without React. Facebook's somewhat unclear licensing (BSD+Patents) have been fuel for FUD among Open Source developers. FOSS communities continue to have a buil...
Read React patents clarification: Facebook License FAQ, adoption at Apple and MicrosoftMany web developers recall working with Sharepoint as a web CMS as a horrible tool. Customization the table structures generated by the proprietary backend code was the antithesis in the heydays of the web standard movement in the 2000's. Fast forward to 2016 and Sharepoint is no longer targeted at...
Read React is the UI framework for extending SharePointThe Visual Studio Code editor is popular among JavaScript developers. While it's not the IDE behemoth that the complete Visual Studio is, it's still able to provide debugging help for you. With JavaScript, browsers and Node.js it's more and more common to execute the exact same code on the server a...
Read Debug Universal JavaScript running in Node.js and Chrome from VS CodeDuring 2016 some of the risks that security experts have warned regarding the IoT (Internet of Things) have realised. The Mirai botnet using surveillance cameras and other devices have been disabling DNS (Domain Name Services) in the fall of 2016. With the notion of IoT and that devices from homes...
Read Home Automation System exposed to DDoS reveals IoT risksHas Drupal adoption stalled because it's so "enterprisey"? dryer Sun, 12/04/2016 - 06:49...
Read Has Drupal adoption stalled because it's so "enterprisey"?Karoly Négyesi (chx) ousted from the Drupal community dryer Tue, 11/22/2016 - 11:15...
Read Karoly Négyesi (chx) ousted from the Drupal communityUpdates for critical vulnerabilities in Drupal 8 dryer Wed, 09/21/2016 - 03:42...
Read Updates for critical vulnerabilities in Drupal 8Drupal and CQRS/ES (Command Query Responsibility Segregation and Event Sourcing) dryer Sat, 09/17/2016 - 08:10...
Read Drupal and CQRS/ES (Command Query Responsibility Segregation and Event Sourcing)How to install Drupal on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL/Ubuntu) dryer Sun, 08/07/2016 - 10:11...
Read How to install Drupal on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL/Ubuntu)Drupal 8: Critical vulnerability in Guzzle library / httpoxy (PSA-2016-002) dryer Mon, 07/18/2016 - 06:32...
Read Drupal 8: Critical vulnerability in Guzzle library / httpoxy (PSA-2016-002)Highly critical vulnerabilities allowing remote code execution in Drupal dryer Wed, 07/13/2016 - 06:17...
Read Highly critical vulnerabilities allowing remote code execution in DrupalDrupal and WordPress tech stacks diverge to PHP and JavaScript dryer Fri, 07/08/2016 - 21:00...
Read Drupal and WordPress tech stacks diverge to PHP and JavaScriptWhen is Angular 2 released? Can I start headless Drupal projects today? dryer Sun, 06/19/2016 - 15:07...
Read When is Angular 2 released? Can I start headless Drupal projects today?Introduction to GraphQL for Drupal Developers dryer Sat, 06/18/2016 - 11:10...
Read Introduction to GraphQL for Drupal DevelopersIn his State of the Word 2016 speech Matt Mullenweg, the project lead for the WordPress project announced that there will be no releases of WordPress in the upcoming future. Development on the project will continue, but before a new official version is released – there will need to be signific...
Read Matt Mullenweg to make WordPress great again – puts releases on holdOn October 28th the Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg published a blog post accusing that Wix, a provider of competing services, has stolen code from the WordPress codebase. To be specific, it was about the use of a rich text editing component in the Wix mobile app: If I were being charitable, I’d say...
Read A tale of WordPress, Wix and Open Source LicensingGraphQL is a communication protocol that allows web applications to communicate. It is similar to the much hyped REST APIs, but is more uniform and thus more universal. This makes GraphQL usable across CMS products. Which takes us to the gamble that WordPress and the Automattic corporation behind it...
Read WordPress Calypso and GraphQLAn incredibly large number of WordPress sites run a large parts of the web. From one hobby blogs to code boutiques to enterprise blogs, everyone is running an own copy of this popular Open Source blogging platform turned Content Management System. The problem with WordPress is not that it’s in...
Read Mossack Fonseca trusted WordPressThere are two key “components” to the API: the infrastructure that makes it possible to register endpoints and define their behaviours, and the core endpoints which leverage the infrastructure bits to create RESTful endpoints that let you read/write/manipulate WordPress features like...
Read State of the WordPress REST APIDrupal and WordPress continue their battle for supremacy of the web, it looks like the two have also sided differently when it comes to their decoupling with JavaScript and REST efforts. Back in November 2015, Automattic – the driving force behind WordPress – announced their WordPress s...
Read Drupal goes with Angular 2, WordPress with React, Laravel with Vue.jsContent Management Systems are tools for publishing created content online. With the rise of rise of Data Journalism there is an increasing need to provide content creators with the tools to merge content and data. Below are some opinions on what those requirements should be for a good Data Journal...
Read Data Journalism CMS RequirementsContentful is a competitor to CMSes like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. In fact the company specifically targets the classic CMS market directly on their website: Like a CMS… without the bad bits. How well does this statement hold water? First of all you have to consider the limited scope that...
Read Choosing between a CMS (with a REST API) and ContentfulOne of the advertised key selling points of Drupal 8 is speed. But according to some numbers it seems like the Drupal 7 is actually quite a bit faster than the latest iteration: This probably ties into the large architectural changes in Drupal 8 to that aim to modernise the legacy application. Of...
Read Drupal 8 is slower?WordPress is a juggernaut of the internet. It all kinds of web sites, ranging from blogs to complex business critical web applications. Matt Mullenweg, the founding father of the project imagines WordPress as being an Operating System of the Internet. So WordPress is everywhere, powering smartphone...
Read Alternatives to WordPressThe City of Vaasa is looking into the possibility of hosting the Tesla Gigafactory in it's areas. The city lists the local energy industry cluster and a nearby lithium mine as advantages to the battery factory located in Vaasa, a rather remote northern city on...
Read City of Vaasa in Finland to apply for the Tesla GigafactoryNokia smartphones make their return to the global markets. The devices will be marketed and manufactured by the HMD Global company, which was announced earlier in 2016. Now HMD has announced that it is fully operational and that a number of new devices will be u...
Read New Nokia smartphones confirmed to go on sale globally in early 2017The game that tells a tale of the Finnish summer leisure, a project car and the cultural phenomenon related to it has proved to be a hit. The off-beat game concept with it's tongue-in-cheek implementation have attracted impressive pre-order sales on Steam....
Read Indie game My Summer Car hits 1.5 Million Euros worth of pre-ordersFinnair, the Finnish flagship carrier is accelerating it's digital ambitions. During 2017 the company plans to hire around 70 software developers, project managers, service designers and experts to the new digital team....
Read The Finnish flagship carrier bets on digital—70 new digital expert jobsOn November 24th 2016 the Finnish government published their energy and environment strategy. This provides an outlook to the country's future to the year 2050, when the country has moved to carbon neutral energy production....
Read Finland sets target to a zero emissions economy by 2050The Finnish startup Asmo Solutions is looking to revolutionize the world of such a mundane thing as a mobile phone charger. The company has developed one that switches of when it's not in use, they call it the ASMO Charger....
Read The ASMO USB charger wastes no energy; turns off when not in useThe Swedish Eurodance artist is in the run to represend Finland in the 2017 song contest. The artist known for his mighty mullet and hit songs in the first half of the 2000's is working together with another artist....
Read Pop sensation Günther in the race to represent Finland in Eurovision 2017...
Read Guggenheim Sunny Car CenterIn Finland alcohol sales is strongly regulated. Beer and other less potent drinks are available from supermarkets, but strong spirits and wine are only available for purchase from government owned Alko outlets. In the turn of 2017 there will be some changes in l...
Read Finnish alcohol monopoly Alko to deploy booze trucksA Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack halted heating distribution at least in two properties in the city of Lappeenranta, located in eastern Finland. In both of the events the attacks disabled the computers that were controlling heating in the buildings....
Read DDoS attack halts heating in Finland amidst winterThe Finnish government is said to be preparing a massive overhaul of the country's private car taxation system. The planned changes would remove the dreaded car tax and make significant changes to terms when companies are providing car benefits to employees....
Read Finland preparing a radical car taxation reform to lower emissionsAs a web developer it’s been near impossible to miss the explosion of popularity that React and other component based view libraries have…Continue reading on »...
Read React is gaining ground as a universal server side templating systemContinue reading on »...
Read But the WordPress Editor itself is just a shell on a another project and it does not contain the…Continue reading on »...
Read It would have been more credible from Automattic if they did their licensing by the book before…There’s certainly been no lack of radical ideas and libraries for UI development in JavaScript for the web.Continue reading on »...
Read Vue.js is the pragmatic choice for much of UI developmentCSS styles using JavaScript plugins; plugins include autoprefixer, future CSS transpiling, CSS linting and media queries. PostCSS is a…Continue reading on »...
Read An ode to JavaScript IpsumTypeScript is a programming language that builds on top of JavaScript. It’s not a complete language, but rather a layer that adds new…Continue reading on »...
Read What is TypeScript and why should I care?Continue reading on »...
Read Why build something new as the Lucene ecosystem already enables great things like Nutch, which is…Continue reading on »...
Read This was the new JavaScript booting up.For a long time there were clear boundaries between programming languages. You had a large number of options from low level systems…Continue reading on »...
Read On ubiquitous JavaScript and the unreasonable expectations developers can set themselvesThe year 2015 was pretty tiring in the JavaScript world. This was widely acknowledged and read to JavaScript Fatigue being “a thing” and…Continue reading on »...
Read The JavaScript language reboot is done