GitHub is notifying known victims of an ongoing attack using stolen third-party OAuth user tokens. OAuth user tokens maintained by Heroku and Travis CI were stolen and abused by an unauthorised party to download data from dozens of organisations, including npm. Mike Hanley, Chief Security Officer at GitHub, wrote in a blog post: "We have... Read more » The post GitHub notifies victims of OAuth token theft appeared first on Developer Tech News.

Introduction to Code Quality When we talk about code quality, we can think of different aspects of it. We mainly refer to the attributes and characteristics of code. While there is no widely adopted definition of high-quality code, we know some of the characteristics of good code: It is clean. Absence of code smells Consistent Functional: it does what we say it does. Easy to understand Efficient Testable Easy to maintain Well documented There are probably additional characteristics of good code, but these are the core of the high-quality code.

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Latest PECL Releases:datadog_trace 0.62.1 ### Fixed Add linux/securebits.h to CentOS docker container, to have it present in linux build artifacts #1286 Handle an additional case of capabilities being dropped within our background sender #1287 uopz 7.0.0 - Fix #145 uopz_find_hook segfault with PHP 8.0 - Fix #140 segfault with PHPUnit 9.5 caused by uopz_del_function - Don't remove methods of immutable classes - PHP 8 support - Drop PHP 7 support couchbase 3.2.0 PCBC-750: Deprecate `getScope` in collections manager. PCBC-725: Add support for collections to Full Text Search. PCBC-764: Serialize `BooleanSearchQuery->mustNot` to `"must_not"`. PCBC-709: Add scope level analytics queries. PCBC-732: Expose partition information for query indexes. PCBC-733: Add analytics index manager. PCBC-769: Do not allow using CAS with counter operations, which are always atomic. PCBC-767: Fix URL for collection create method. PCBC-738: Add `preserveExpiry` support for mutations (`replace`, `upsert` and `mutateIn`). PCBC-700: Manage remote links for analytics service. PCBC-706: Provide tracing interface. PCBC-743: Provide metrics interface.

It's been impossible to ignore all of the hype surrounding JavaScript frameworks lately, but they might not be the right fit for your projects. Perhaps you don't want to set up an entire build system for some small abstractions you could feasibly do without. Perhaps moving a project over to a build system and thus, different deployment method would mean a lot of extra time and effort that you might not be able to bill to a client.

On the Laravel Daily site they've posted a tutorial showing the Laravel users out there how to create and catch custom exceptions in your application. Exceptions are a useful tool to handle "exceptional situations" where something fails badly enough where the application cannot proceed. Quite often web-developers don't care enough about errors. If something goes wrong, you often see default Laravel texts like "Whoops, something went wrong" or, even worse, the exception code, which is not helpful at all to the visitor. So I decided to write a step-by-step article of how to handle errors in elegant way and present proper error information to the visitor. He uses a "user search" task to help illustrate the methods for creating custom exceptions, catch exceptions and showing the error to the user. Code is included as well as screenshots of the output. With the basics of exception handling out of the way, they move the handling off into a service and take it one step further to create a custom "user not found" exception and its use in the search method.

Editor's Note: Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann summarizes what happened in the web community in the past few weeks in one handy list, so that you can catch up on everything new and important. Enjoy! Welcome back to our monthly reading list. Before we dive right into all the amazing content I stumbled upon -- admittedly, this one is going to be quite a long update -- I want to make a personal announcement. This week I launched a personal project called Colloq, a new conference and event service for users and organizers. If you're going to events or are organizing one or if you're interested in the recorded content of conferences, this could be for you. So if you like, go ahead and check it out.The post Monthly Web Development Update 11/2017: Browser News, KRACK and Calligraphy With AR appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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