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Enterprise Drupal projects increasingly intersect with automation systems, cloud infrastructure, decoupled frontend development, and AI-assisted workflows as Drupal 11 adoption continues across larger platforms. Ongoing community discussions and architectural shifts around modern PHP, API-driven systems, and platform engineering also continue to expand the technical scope of Drupal development work.

18 May 2026 1:11pm GMT

SymfonyDay Montreal 2026 is calling! Join us on June 4, 2026, at L'Espace Quartier Latin (UQAM) for an exceptional day of technical deep dives and community networking. 🎤 Speaker announcement! Don't miss Nicolas Grekas, Symfony Core team Member,…

18 May 2026 12:30pm GMT

The Architecture That Changed the Game: Modeler API

Jürgen Haas Mon 18 May 2026 - 12:10

18 May 2026 10:10am GMT

Symfony controllers can map request data directly into typed PHP objects using attributes such as #[MapRequestPayload] and #[MapQueryString]. This removes most of the boilerplate involved in request parsing and validation. Symfony 8.1 further improves this…

18 May 2026 7:46am GMT

TL;DR This 30-minute video shows DDEV from zero to everything on a completely blank new MacBook Neo (exactly the same on any macOS device.)

Using Windows or Linux? See DDEV on Windows in 10 Minutes, DDEV on WSL2 from Scratch, or DDEV on Linux in 10 Minutes.

DDEV is a local development environment based on Docker containers that gets you up and working on your project fast. When you're ready for additional configuration and customization, you won't be starting from scratch and can lean on the expertise of the DDEV community.

In this screencast we walk through installing Homebrew, setting up OrbStack as a Docker provider, installing DDEV, and getting started with a basic project - all on a brand-new MacBook Neo with only 8GB of RAM. We use a Composer-managed Drupal 11 project as an example, and also cover setting up Xdebug with both PhpStorm and VS Code. The presentation slides are also available.

After watching this tutorial, you'll be able to run websites on your computer with minimal configuration and have multiple sites with different configurations available locally, all because Docker does the heavy lifting while DDEV does the simplifying. Whether you're a solo engineer or a member of a team, DDEV will help you be more efficient.

This screencast references the regular DDEV documentation:

• DDEV Installation
• Using the CLI
• Drupal 11 Quickstart
• Step Debugging with Xdebug
• Support: DDEV Discord, Drupal Slack #ddev channel: See Support docs
• DDEV Project Repository and issue queue

Here's the video table of contents (opens in YouTube):

• What is DDEV (1:00)
• Install Homebrew (3:01)
• Install Docker provider (OrbStack) (5:07)
• Install DDEV (7:54)
• Create a trivial "junk" project (9:03)
• Create a Drupal 11 project (11:42)
• Learn a few DDEV commands (15:35)
• Xdebug with PhpStorm (18:51)
• Xdebug with VS Code (24:40)
• DDEV Resources (30:40)

18 May 2026 12:00am GMT

Twig 3.25.0 released Twig 3.25.0 ships with a new needs_is_sandboxed option that lets filters, functions, and tests adapt their behavior when running inside a sandbox, makes the compiled output of templates using {% embed %} deterministic across runs, and…

17 May 2026 8:12am GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT