Newsletter #73

Hello folks! Here you go with your weekly dose of #techthursday, we have some team updates for this week! Yeahh! the Business Intelligence (BI) team has also sent us some links for the newsletter.

Thanks to Lucio for a new nginx docker image that applies the google page speed goodies.

Woo hoo, we would like to welcome the new joiners Disu and Filippo to our team.

Aaaand!! we moved to a new office.

• New in #Symfony 2.7: #Twig as a First-Class Citizen

• Eric Evans on Monolith v. Microservices — in 2004

• On PSR-7

• On professionalism in software

• What’s new in #CSS Selectors 4

• Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

• Cool, but obscure unix tools

• Is JavaScript getting worse?

• What’s New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?

• Why we ditched #Django for Microservices

• Audi’s Cruise Control “>=” Bug

• Java 8: No more loops

• Wikipedia on HHVM

• The problem with AngularJS

• (Ab)using CSS3’S :NTH-CHILD selector to invent new ones

• Strategies for Keeping CSS Specificity Low

• How we use web fonts responsibly, or, avoiding a @font-face-palm

• Understand JavaScript Closures With Ease

• Introduction to Reducing Duplication in Test Code

• Testing and BDD in Symfony & Sylius – Interview by Fernando Arconada

• Introducing AngularCSS: CSS On-Demand for AngularJS

• A Better Development Environment with Docker and Fig

• A Comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users

• Presenting FreeBSD! How We Made It Happen

• Jobber – A replacement for cron, with sophisticated status-reporting and error-handling

• TrackMemo – Eliminate status updates. Keep the big picture

• Install node and npm without the need of using “sudo”

• The power of Docker and open source ecosystems

• Command-line interface description language

• Examining how CSS is being used in the wild

• Adding a leap second is more dangerous for the Internet than you might expect

• JavaScript in 2015

• PHP7 – Return Types RFC ongoing vote!

• The Right Tool for The Right Job

• PHP Roundtable – Coding Securely in PHP

• Mocking PHP

• Google releases open-source Java SDK for Cloud Dataflow service to form data pipelines

• Simplify your Google Analytics Reporting with Add-ons for Google Sheets

• Getting Started with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

• The 10 Most Important BI Stories of 2014