“State of the Word” is a big thing for anyone who is involved with WordPress. This year’s “State of the Word” is even more important, following the release of WordPress 5.0 and the switch over to Gutenberg editor.
If an almost one hour talk is too much for you, then read through the Post Status summary of the talk with all the highlights and useful links.
spatie/period is a PHP library that provides complex period comparisons. It implements a variety of methods for calculating gaps, boundaries, overlaps, and other operations on multiple dates.
Password Exposed Helper Function is a tiny PHP library that helps checking user passwords against the Have I Been P0wned website API.
This is quite common new functionality on many websites and services (see GitHub, for example), which is now available as a quick composer dependency for your PHP projects.
Shlomi Noach, GitHub’s Senior Infrastructure Engineer, shares some details on both the current and future high availability setup of MySQL databases at GitHub.
This is probably way too far out for most people using MySQL for their web applications. But it does highlight the technical complexity of running high load web applications, and how some of the issues can be solved or worked around.
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“Advanced web security topics” blog post goes over a variety of ways that a web application can get p0wned. Some of these include: