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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Laravel News: Laravel 5.7 Resources Directory Changes Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Chris Rowe Pascal Landau: Setting up PhpStorm with Xdebug for local development on Docker Colin O'Dell: Automatically Switch PHP Version on cd Matthias Noback: Negative architecture, and assumptions about code Laravel News: Security Release - Laravel v5.6.30 and v5.5.42 have been released TutsPlus.com: Get Started With Pusher - Using Private Channels TutsPlus.com: Examples of Dependency Injection in PHP With Symfony Components Delicious Brains: Improve Page Load Time For Your WordPress Site With WP Offload S3: A Case Study Ben Sampson: Speed up relationship queries in Laravel php[architect]: August 2018 Issue Release - Masterful Code Management CodeWall: Filtering Faulty HTML Using Purifier Package Tomas Votruba: Stylish and Standard Console Output with Symfony Style Laravel News: Customizing the Laravel View Path

Latest PECL Releases:swoole 4.3.6 Fixed Fixed #2661 (#2661) (@twose) Fixed hang on MacOS (dcb14488) (@matyhtf) Fixed SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER (#2667) (@twose) Fixed global value (edfdc544) (@twose) swoole 4.4.1 Enhancement --- + Support send response with non-zero Content-length without body for HEAD request (#2690) (@matyhtf) + Support `Coroutine::getPcid` by a random cid (#2669) (@huanghantao) Fixed Fixed SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER (#2667) (@twose) Fixed signal listener (#2675) (@matyhtf) Fixed MySQL incompatibility changes (#2674) (@twose) Fixed add event after server start (#2673) (@matyhtf) Fixed static_handler can not decode url (#2676) (@twose) Fixed task worker warning (#2689) (@Yurunsoft) Fixed HttpRequest->rawContent (#2682) (@twose) Fixed invalid read when Timer::clearAll (6b0263b) (@matyhtf) Fixed CoroutineHttpClient send failed (432259d) (@twose) redis 5.0.1 This release contains only bugfix for one critical issue RedisCluster segfaults after second connection with cache_slots enabled [327cf0bd] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) protobuf 3.9.0 GA release. http_message 0.1.0 Initial release. xlswriter 1.2.6 - FIX CentOS6 Build. - FIX InsertText memory leaks. win32service 0.4.1 * Remove the PHP version check. For fix the PHP crashes when `phpinfo` is called by CGI SAPI. (issue [#45](https://github.com/win32service/win32service/issues/45)) * Fix PHP 7.4 errors in object example (issue [#46](https://github.com/win32service/win32service/issues/46)) The binary is also available here: https://github.com/win32service/win32service/releases/tag/v0.4.1

Scroll bouncing (also sometimes referred to as scroll 'rubber-banding', or 'elastic scrolling') is often used to refer to the effect you see when you scroll to the very top of a page or HTML element, or to the bottom of a page or element, on a device using a touchscreen or a trackpad, and empty space can be seen for a moment before the element or page springs back and aligns itself back to its top/bottom (when you release your touch/fingers).

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Latest PECL Releases:gRPC 1.21.3 - #19205 Fix ZTS build shutdown segfault mongodb 1.6.0alpha2 ** Bug * [PHPC-1331] - Fix typos in ReadPreference::__set_state() errors * [PHPC-1332] - PHP array API downcasts 64-bit integers to 32-bit values on Windows * [PHPC-1341] - Remove XFAIL for unacknowledged write concern test ** Epic * [PHPC-837] - Update PHP driver to test in Evergreen * [PHPC-1329] - Fix Windows build failures on AppVeyor ** Task * [PHPC-691] - Test that Server command/query execute methods send read preference to mongos * [PHPC-857] - Create Evergreen matrix for various test configurations * [PHPC-858] - Add authentication axis to Evergreen matrix * [PHPC-859] - Add SSL axis to Evergreen matrix * [PHPC-860] - Add PHP runtime axis to Evergreen matrix * [PHPC-861] - Add MongoDB version axis to Evergreen matrix * [PHPC-862] - Add Evergreen matrix to run against nightly server builds * [PHPC-863] - Add RHEL 7.1/Power 8 to the operating system axis * [PHPC-864] - Add storage engines to Evergreen matrix * [PHPC-1180] - Fix peer certificate verification errors for SSL clusters * [PHPC-1240] - Remove noprealloc, nssize and smallfiles from MO configurations * [PHPC-1271] - Add (only) RHEL on zSeries to Evergreen Matrix * [PHPC-1276] - Create tool chain for PHP binaries * [PHPC-1299] - Add Ubuntu 16.04/ARM64 to the operating system axis * [PHPC-1333] - Revert to virtualized Travis CI environments * [PHPC-1345] - Revise fragile session ID assertions * [PHPC-1364] - Upgrade libmongoc to 1.14.0 * [PHPC-1370] - Revise test assertion for unknown modifier error message ** Improvement * [PHPC-1301] - php_phongo_cursor_t.got_iterator should use bool type * [PHPC-1307] - Exception interface should extend Throwable on PHP 7+ * [PHPC-1373] - WriteResult is inaccessible if executeBulkWrite() encounters socket error gRPC 1.21.3RC1 - #19205 Fix ZTS build shutdown segfault mongodb 1.5.4 ** Bug * [PHPC-1378] - CFLAGS and LDFLAGS can cause truncated platform info in client metadata handshake * [PHPC-1387] - Consider error document for cursor exceptions ** Improvement * [PHPC-1359] - Ensure 4.0 drivers return an error when attempting sharded transactions on 4.2 couchbase 2.6.1 * documentation updates * improved test integration with CouchbaseMock parallel 1.1.0 - Fix #54 Input::add and Channel::send inconsistency - Fix #55 parallelrun may schedule in wrong thread - Anonymous channel support - Add parallelSync pcov 1.0.4 - Fix #17 Lines not covered when more tests are run - Improve perf of clear routine - Merge upstream cfg updates (switch block change) - Omit ignored opcodes from internal coverage data completely (doesn't effect users, except less memory used) runkit7 3.0.0RC1 Runkit7 3.0 finishes changing this extension's name from "runkit" to "runkit7". THIS WILL REQUIRE CHANGES TO YOUR BUILD SCRIPTS AND PHP.INI FILES. This change was made at the request of PECL admins, to comply with naming and packaging standards. The compiled shared object name has been changed from runkit.so to runkit7.so (Mac/Linux) and php_runkit.dll to php_runkit7.dll (Windows) (php.ini files should be changed to reference extension=runkit7.so or extension=php_runkit7.dll) The configure flag names have been changed from flags such as --enable-runkit / --enable-runkit-modify to --enable-runkit7 / --enable-runkit7-modify Code using extension_loaded(&#039;runkit&#039;) should be changed to extension_loaded(&#039;runkit7&#039;) (as well as uses of ReflectionExtension, etc.) The ini options runkit.superglobal and runkit.internal_override are unaffected. Changes in 3.0.0RC1 Update documentation Remove RUNKIT_VERSION datadog_trace 0.26.0 ### Added - Initial implementation of flushing spans via background thread #450 Changed URL-normalization rule boundaries #457 gRPC 1.21.2 - #19181 Fix ZTS build error - #19147 Fix shutdown segfault couchbase 3.0.0alpha3 * third alpha release componere 3.1.0 - Add PHP 7.4 support runkit7 3.0.0a1 Runkit7 3.0 finishes changing this extension's name from "runkit" to "runkit7". THIS WILL REQUIRE CHANGES TO YOUR BUILD SCRIPTS AND PHP.INI FILES. This change was made at the request of PECL admins, to comply with naming and packaging standards. The compiled shared object name has been changed from runkit.so to runkit7.so (Mac/Linux) and php_runkit.dll to php_runkit7.dll (Windows) (php.ini files should be changed to reference extension=runkit7.so or extension=php_runkit7.dll) The configure flag names have been changed from flags such as --enable-runkit / --enable-runkit-modify to --enable-runkit7 / --enable-runkit7-modify Code using extension_loaded(&#039;runkit&#039;) should be changed to extension_loaded(&#039;runkit7&#039;) (as well as uses of ReflectionExtension, etc.) The ini options runkit.superglobal and runkit.internal_override are unaffected. Other changes: It is now possible to disable superglobal support (--disable-runkit7-super was fixed) Classkit compatibility functions/constants have been removed. couchbase 3.0.0alpha2 * second alpha release runkit7 2.1.0 - Add runkit7_*() aliases for runkit_*() global functions. - Add RUNKIT7_* aliases for RUNKIT_* global constants. vld 0.16.0 - Preliminary PHP 7.4 support. translit 0.6.3 Repackage, and drop PHP < 5.6 support. protobuf 3.8.0 GA release.

Serverless isn't just a fad; it's here to stay. According to Datadog's State of Serverless 2021 report, AWS Lambda functions were invoked 3.5 times more often than they were in 2019. The company explained this is an indication that teams are making serverless a critical part of their software stacks, not just experimenting with it. … continue reading The post Report: Serverless now a critical part of many software stacks appeared first on SD Times.

Website design trends can be a lot of fun to experiment with and incorporate into projects, but if you aren't careful these elements can add a dated look to projects. Sometimes trends fade out as quickly as they rush in! Here, we're going to look at some website design trends that are fading. (And that's […]

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Today we’re going to take a look at creating a chalk lettering effect, just like the trendy menus you see in bars and cafes, or the quote murals all over Pinterest. We’ll use the digital power of Adobe Illustrator to plan out our typographic quote design with fonts, which allows us to experiment and move […] The post Video Tutorial: How To Create a Realistic Chalk Lettering Effect appeared first on Spoon Graphics.