• Yii2 added to Scrutinizer-CI. Feel a power in your arms to make code smells better? Come on, investigate reports and contribute.
• First draf of REST api implementation from Qiang. See the code, read docs, make your suggestions ! It is not in master yet, but it has a lot of features implemented - quick prototyping, routing by HTTP verbs, authorization, HATEOAS etc.
• New look for a framework documentation. Combined with Class References. Now it's easier to read.
• Help needed to enhance api doc generator
• Help needed to fix issues in Yii2 to work with HHVM
• Support for fetching Query results in Batches. Very usefull when working with big data sets. Here is the docs for this
• Support for Nested Transactions
• Big change in Custom Scopes handling for ActiveRelation. Now additional Query class should be made per AR model if you want to have custom scopes.
• Fixed syntax consistency in Html::a, createUrl, redirect etc. At last ! :)
• Pjax widget. Allows to add Ajax update to other widgets or any form/link inside it and changes url in browser via pushState.
• GridView supports update via pjax
• Added getIsPjax method and HTTP_X_PJAX header

• Special method renderAjax > This method is similar to renderPartial() except that it will inject into the rendering result with JS/CSS scripts and files which are registered with the view. For this reason, you should use this method instead of renderPartial() to render a view to respond to an AJAX request

• Added support to parse JSON request data to Request::getRestParams()

• "DB attributes" or "virtual properties" discussion. In the end there will not be any kind of that > You are currently able to add public properties which are not stored in db but you can validate them. This is done in advanced app with password field. Attributes are fields that are stored in db, public properties are not, but both can be validated.

• Yii2 extension manager GUI (work in progress)

• Yii2 extension generator in Gii module
• Bundled behaviors refactoring. AttributeStampBehavior, BlameableBehavior, TimestampBehavior. Also a proposal for a set of other behaviors like "SoftDelete", "Translatable" tec.
• Workflow for embedded documents usage in MongoDB ActiveRecord. I have had an experience workign with Mongo and embedded docs in Yii1 and I must say it's a pain in any case and require manual work
• New Fixtures handling - as classes, with dependencies, initialiser etc.
• Added ability to downgrade migrations by their absolute apply time
• Update for debug toolbar UI

• Markdown extension from @cebe is now added as official one. I must say that's awesome work, and already really looks like introduced : > All existing implementations are either slow or not extensible so I decided to combine these two factors in a new implementation.

• Docs : Using Yii in 3rd-Party Systems

• DynamicModel - model class primarily used to support ad-hoc data validation

   $model = DynamicModel::validateData(compact('name', 'email'), [
  [['name', 'email'], 'string', 'max' => 128]],
  ['email', 'email'],
  ]);
  

Faker is a library that provide a set of generators for data types like fake name, address, number, IP, email, lorem ipsum text etc. - all generic data that is needed to create semi-real database content. Usually it has variations for different popular languages. All data is human-readable and taken from library, a lot of different combinations creates semi-unique data set.

It is needed mostly on testing and demonstration stages. Nobody likes to see a list of users like "test1", "Johnny35" etc. with posts "Test1", "Another test 35".

Implementation

• PHP
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• Perl
• Python

PHP usage example

$faker = Faker\Factory::create();

// generate data by accessing properties
echo $faker->name;
  // 'Lucy Cechtelar';
echo $faker->address;
  // "426 Jordy Lodge
  // Cartwrightshire, SC 88120-6700"
echo $faker->text;
  // Sint velit eveniet. Rerum atque repellat voluptatem quia rerum. Numquam excepturi
  // beatae sint laudantium consequatur. Magni occaecati itaque sint et sit tempore. Nesciunt ...

for ($i=0; $i < 5; $i++) {
  echo $faker->name, "\n";
}
  // Adaline Reichel
  // Dr. Santa Prosacco DVM
  // Noemy Vandervort V
  // Lexi O'Conner
  // Gracie Weber

NB! Yii2 Framework has a Faker fixtures extensions

• People are contributing quite a lot of messages translation. Have a look and make pull request with your native language! Hey, Klingonians, where are you ! :)
• CONTRIBUTING.md appeared in Yii2 repo. With main links to contribution instructions.
• Draft implementation of REST component/controller, discussion around it. Personally I am very intersted in (REST)API support as I am dealing with (creating) a lot of them in my work. And I am looking forward whay will be proposed by @qiangxue.
• Once again started discussion about separating “attributes” and “DB attributes” for ActiveRecord or having some "data-mapper"-like approach in AR. This topic is very interesting and non-trivial, suggest you to get into it.
• Added support for installing packages conforming to PSR-4 standard, also all packages migrated to PSR-4 folder structure
• Debug module remade to use GridView + ArrayDataProvider also a lot of visual enhancements were made.
• Added support for retrieving sub-array element or child object property through ArrayHelper::getValue(). Very handy and removes boilerplate isset checks.
• API docs generator ready. Here are docs for a framework and for extensions
• Added Image Helper based on Imageine - that's really long awaited thing !
• jQuery 2.0 now distributed with Yii2 by default, but it is still being discussed
• Added postgresql QueryBuilder::checkIntegrity and QueryBuilder::resetSequence usefull for Postgres fuxtures.
• NO plans to adopt PSR-3 compliant logger class
• Charset is now explicitly set to UTF-8 when serving JSON
• Discussion on test additions - AspectMock not included, Specify included. Personally I like Specify sugar very much.
• DOCS - i18n in views
• Faker fixture generator integrated and DOC for Fixtures
• Codeception tests added to bacis app
• AuthClient Extension usage documentation
• DICSUSSION - Display current routes
• More thougnts on Admin Panel for advanced app
• Added support for building "EXISTS" and "NOT EXISTS" query conditions
• MongoDB Session class and MongoDB Cache class
• HHVM support of Yii2 is being evaluated, not perfect yet.
• Started docs for integration Yii2 with 3rd party libraries : Using Yii in 3rd-Party Systems, Using Yii2 with Yii1.
• DISCUSSION : Fixtures as classes with custom initialisers. It could open wide possibilities like fixture dependecy, complex DB structures creation before adding fixture data in db etc.

In projects where you need to work with video data - converting video files or creating frame screenshot preview for a video, convert mp3 etc. it is very likely you will decide to use ffmpeg.
It is open source and free lib that is de-facto standard tool to operate with media files. But in Linux repositories it is often outdated version of ffmpeg and to get most recent features you'd better compile it from source. It is not a trivial things to get all needed dependencies, that's why I have gathered it all in one bash script.

Correct, short and illustrative talk on aspects of informational security that even IT people are missing. Also we always need to remember that all our tracks in the Network are quite easy to find.

Russian subtitles are available