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The maintainers of Composer, a package manager for PHP, have shipped an update to address a critical vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands and “backdoor every PHP package,” resulting in a supply-chain attack.
Tracked as CVE-2021-29472, the securit…….
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According to the 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, more coders work on Macs (27.5%) than on Linux (26.6%), but only by a very small margin. By contrast, nearly twice as many developers (45.8%) use Windows as their development machines. Over the years, I’ve jumped between platforms, but I find…….
The Match Expression v2 RFC has passed and targets the stable release of PHP v8.0! The RFC still leaves room for future improvement (noted in the RFC), but for now we get single-line expressions that provide a clean, terse syntax for matching expressions.
Since match() {} is an expression…….
Boom!
And, there is a new platform in the IT industry. In this tornado of new languages coming up every day, PHP remains calm at the center of the storm.
Slowly moving along.
Making the required adaptations!
And powering almost 80% web!
Yes, PHP is a forever young p…….
Spatie’s Data Transfer Object (DTO) package makes constructing objects from arrays a breeze, giving you confidence in the data contained therein. I’ve been a fan of this package since learning about the initial V1 release, and I hope you’ll consider this package for passing around data in your a…….
Scripting language PHP might not be that cool to know these days, but it is very valuable if you’re new to the workforce and looking for a tech job in the US, according to job search engine Indeed.
Job listings for entry-level PHP developer roles have increased a massive 834% since Ja…….
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Software developers are among the most crucial and complex roles to hire for.
This is only made more difficult due to the fact there are many different sub-categories of software developers that need to know various coding languages and specific applications in orde…….
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I love the iPad. It’s a fantastic form factor for media consumption and gaming; and it also works well as an e-reader. The…….