Hi, I'm Reuben, the Ringmaster of Mobile Atom Media and Code (https://www.mobileatom.net/). Symfony Station (https://symfonystation.mobileatom.net/) is my latest venture. I moderate the Symfony magazine here (https://kbin.social/m/Symfony) and created the Symfony Universe Collection. (https://kbin.social/u/symfonystation/c/SymfonyUniverse)
A graduate of the Univ. of Georgia and an MA graduate of Georgia State, I live in Orlando. My full-stack developer certification is from the Univ. of Central Florida.
DrupalEasy Podcast S15E5 - Andy Blum - Drupal Smart Snippets for Visual Studio Code (www.drupaleasy.com)
We talk with Andy Blum about the Drupal Smart Snippets extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension brings some really useful Drupal-y features to Visual Studio Code including hook completion, form and render array element completion, and service and service method autocomplete.
PHP Annotated – July 2023 via The PhpStorm Blog (blog.jetbrains.com)
Welcome to the July edition of PHP Annotated! We'll recap the most interesting developments in the PHP community over the past month, featuring handpicked news, articles, tools, and videos. Highligh
SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 - Multi-Tenancy - Yay or Nay? (Symfony Blog) (symfony.com)
Simon Möller-Börkel will introduce you 2 different approaches on how to implement a multi-tenant application, with data storage in one or in separate databases per client, with real user stories.
Cooperation, Connections and Coffee — a TYPO3 Education Committee Community Sprint Report (typo3.org)
The TYPO3 Community Sprint provides a great opportunity for connecting with other teams from the community and beyond. This can be attributed, in large part, to the TYPO3 GmbH team and their CEO, Daniel Fau, who not only supported a smooth process (lodging, catering, barista coffee, and more), but also actively created...
Drupal Paragraphs Module in Drupal 9 - A Complete Tutorial (www.specbee.com)
Drupal Paragraphs module accelerates your Drupal development process. Read this blog to discover the scope of this module and how to empower your website with clean and dynamic content layouts.
A Week of Symfony #865 (24-30 July 2023) (Symfony Blog) (symfony.com)
This week, Symfony 5.4.26 maintenance version was released. Meanwhile, we deprecated annotations in favor of attributes in Serializer, in Validator and in Routing. We also worked on adding types to pr...
Innovating within Drupal’s Core Competency via Ryan Szrama (ryanszrama.com)
The dominant theme of DrupalCon Pittsburgh was innovation. It featured heavily in our Drupal Association Board retreat as we considered how the non-profit might better support and contribute to continuous innovation in Drupal. Project lead Dries Buytaert discussed the topic at length in his keynote presentation, which ended with...
Using the ECA module to replace a not-Drupal-10-ready contrib module (Termcase) (www.drupaleasy.com)
I've been a big fan of the Termcase module
Symfony Station Communiqué - 28 July 2023 (www.symfonystation.com)
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. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse.
Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half (www.bbc.com)
Drupal 10: Creating A Notification System Using The Message And ECA Modules (www.hashbangcode.com)
Drupal is a great platform to create communities of users where you can allow users to create their own content and interact with each other. One way of keeping users engaged on the site is by letting them know when other users are interacting with content they have created. This is quite a common occurrence on sites like...
Supercharge your application's performance: Consuming Symfony messenger messages with Go (dev.to)
Introduction As applications scale and grow, efficient message processing becomes crucial...
Introducing The Dashboard Initiative via Penyaskito Blog (penyaskito.com)
Last year, during DrupalCon Prague, Cristina approached me with an idea to include Dashboards in core. We met with Sascha, and since then a team emerged and we have been meeting more or less regularly defining how this would look like, and creating some proof of concepts.
Symfony Station Communiqué - 21 July 2023 (www.symfonystation.com)
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. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse.
Using variable fonts in theme.json (cr0ybot.com)
If you are trying to use a variable font in your custom block theme via theme.json, you may be running into some issues that I also saw and, mostly, solved.
Prepare Yourself for Symfony 6.4 and Symfony 7.0 (Symfony Blog) (symfony.com)
Symfony 6.4 and Symfony 7.0 will be released at the same time at the end of November 2023. This article explains their differences and how to pick the best version for your projects.
KitKat gets a break with Drupal and Acquia (dri.es)
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of Acquia.
The Buffer Curse (infosecwriteups.com)
A tale of unusual exploitation in Web Application
PHP 8.2: A Glimpse into the Future of Web Development (kvnc-inc.medium.com)
As the digital landscape continues to evolve, PHP, one of the most popular programming languages for web development, stays ahead of the curve with its latest version — PHP 8.2.
Component-based theming with Drupal’s Single Directory Component via Specbee (www.specbee.com)
Take a deep dive into component-based theming with Drupal’s Single Directory Component. Learn why and how SDC can significantly transform front-end development in Drupal.
Joomla 5 Alpha - First experiences (magazine.joomla.org)
Yes, sometimes I'm curious. So, when I read in the Joomla Facebook group that Joomla 5 Alpha1 was out, I decided to give it a try.
How to Enforce Selection of Published Contents in Entity Reference Fields via Zyxware (www.zyxware.com)
In Drupal, the default behaviour of entity reference fields allows us to select unpublished content if the content creator has permission to view unpublished content, which can be useful in specific scenarios where we need to establish relationships even with unpublished content. However, in many cases, we want to refer only to...
Open To All: Bringing Collaborative Editing to the Drupal Node (www.palantir.net)
A new open source editor to streamline content workflows and enable realtime peer-to-peer collaboration
Navigating your first days with Blackfire: a comprehensive guide to optimizing web application performance via Blackfire.io Le Blog (blog.blackfire.io)
Jumpstart your journey with Blackfire! This post aims at guiding users through their first days with Blackfire, from outlining an Observability Strategy to discovering and using all its features.
Modules That Will Make Your Drupal 7 Upgrade Easier via Chromatic. (chromatichq.com)
Install these modules on your Drupal 7 site to determine its readiness for the move to Modern Drupal or Backdrop.