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PHP turned 26! 🎂 On June 8, 1995, Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf introduced the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor 1.0 scripting language on Usenet‘s comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi. Rasmus’s announcement (now in Google Groups) is still online.
It’s your weekly roundup of news briefs for busy WordPress professionals! @dimensionmedia, can you believe we’ve done almost 500 of these? -Ed.
Matthias Pfefferle is head of WordPress development at a hosting company in Europe and the creator of Activity Pub, a WordPress plugin. He joins Cory Miller to discuss the rising need for decentralization in social networking, the current movement, and the future potential available within WordPress.
If you’re a PHP developer using Composer, please be sure to read this new advisory on a potential supply chain attack. ☠️
Remote work and digital nomad-ing may be the future, but it can have consequences. You are never away from the office when your home is your office, and with workers in all kinds of timezones and on all kinds of schedules the pings are non-stop. Just last night, I got pinged just as I rested…
Tumblr shares some statistics after their move to PHP 7. Almost immediately they saw their latency drop by half and the CPU load on the servers decrease “at least 50%.” I like their very short but true summary at the end of the post: “PHP 7 is pretty rad!”
Juliette Reinders Folmer notes that some updates are proposed for implementation in WordPress Coding Standards 3.0.0: “With the change to PHP 5.6 as the minimum PHP version for WordPress Core, and with the outlook of a minimum version of PHP 7.x in the (near) future, even more interesting language features will soon become available for…
