Newsletter #47

TechThursday is here!

What happened this week in the Namshi Tech team?

This week our teammate nikita got the time to work a bit on namshi/jose, and we ended up releasing version 1.1.1!
Jose is a PHP library that provides a lightweight implementation of JWS (JSON Web Signature) specification.

At the same time we are thrilled about the first SymfonyLive New York, we sent a bunch of cfps… let’s cross our fingers!

Below the usual list of interesting resources we found out this week, enjoy!

• Security releases (CVE-2014-4931): #Symfony 2.3.18, 2.4.8, and 2.5.2 released

• httpbin: #HTTP Client Testing Service

• “I Do Not Know One Person Who Is Happy at Amazon”

• Digging into #Angular’s “Controller as” syntax

• Write your #git hooks in #PHP and keep them under git control

• Why I’m staying with NodeJS

• Guy writes a page explaining X11 for mortals and embeds an X11 server in the page. That’s it, everybody out.

• Zero-downtime database migrations

• Amazon Zocalo – Document Storage and Sharing for the Enterprise

• Breach: a #browser for the #HTML5 era. Entirely written in #Javascript. Free. Modular. Hackable.

• Swagger: A simple, open standard for describing REST APIs with JSON | Reverb for Developers http://t.co/WZXF4VnAH3

• 8 Lines of Code: Greg Young discusses eight lines of very common code finding in them massive numbers of dependencies and difficulties, looking for ways to get rid of them.

• Cloud Design Patterns: Prescriptive Architecture Guidance for Cloud Applications

• Developers and Apple open up on new Swift programming language

• RESTing with Symfony: SOS

• HTTPie is a user-friendly cURL replacement

• When REST Gets Messy

• PHP-next-gen benchmark

• HN Tools of the Trade, 2014 edition

• How a Password changed my life

• JavaScript Error Tracking

• Create amazing forms

• Germany considers replacing email with typewriters to evade spying

• A distributed web framework that allows programmers to create web applications in multiple programming languages

• Zach Holman: If Only I Knew This In College!

• Programming is terrible – lessons learned from a life wasted

• The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with the Play Framework

• Nodemailer v1.0 released

• 10 Things Non-Developers Love To Say To Developers

• Introducing Realm – a mobile-first database