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Episode 59: Startup Lyfe - Part 2

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Amanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Mike Wales, Chris Boden, and Daniel Cousineau once again, to finish our discussion about working at and founding startups. This is part two of two.By ben.edmunds@gmail.com (Ben Edmunds, Phil Sturgeon).

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Episode 58: Startup Lyfe - Part 1

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Amanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Mike Wales, Chris Boden, and Daniel Cousineau to discuss working at and founding startups. This is part one of two. Part two is coming in a few weeks.By ben.edmunds@gmail.com (Ben Edmunds, Phil Sturgeon).

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Episode 57: APIs, Conferences, API Conferences, and Horrible Flights

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Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Tessa Mero to discuss their conference organizing experience and the conferences they are putting on in the coming months. Links Southeast PHP Conference API Strat Conference API City Conference Southeast PHP PosterBy ben.edmunds@gmail.com (Ben Edmunds, Phil Sturgeon).

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Episode 56: GraphQL is better than REST

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Amanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Phil Sturgeon to discuss what’s new in the world of API development. Make sure to check out his new book Talking To Other People’s APIs. Sponsor We’re sponsored this episode by the Southeast PHP Conference: Southeast PHP Community Conference in Nashville, TN is happening August 16th and 17th right in ...…

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Episode 55: The Hardest Problem in Software

1y ago

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Amanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Mike Wales and Michael Lopp to discuss the hardest problem in software - people. Also make sure to check out the books recommended during this episode: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High Nine Minutes on Monday: The Quick and Easy Way to Go From Manager to Leader Radical Cand ...…

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Episode 54: Conferences and Stuff

1y ago

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Amanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Daniel Cousineau, Tracy Hinds, Ian Littman, and Matt Trask to discuss the good, bad, and ugly of conference organizing. Make sure to check out the kickstarter for the Longhorn PHP Conference.By ben.edmunds@gmail.com (Ben Edmunds, Phil Sturgeon).

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Episode 53: Developer Relations, Travel, and Bedbugs with Jessica Rose

1+ y ago

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Amanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Jessica Rose to discuss developer relations, travel, and bedbugs.By ben.edmunds@gmail.com (Ben Edmunds, Phil Sturgeon).

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Episode 52: What Do We Do Now?

2y ago

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Amanda Folson officially takes the co-host reins! We ease you in to the transition by Ben grilling… ahem… interviewing Amanda a bit so you can get to know her better.By ben.edmunds@gmail.com (Ben Edmunds, Phil Sturgeon).

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Episode 51: Good Riddance

2y ago

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In this episode Ben and Phil discuss what’s new in their pathetic little lives, the state of the PHP-FIG, and bid an ecstatic.. ahem.. sad farewell to Phil as he departs the podcast. Starting with Episode 51 Amanda Folson will be taking over as co-host. Ben is staying so don’t worry, we know he’s your favorite. Phil,Thanks for 51 fucking fantas ...…

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Episode 50: Low down on PSR-15

2+ y ago

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An all star cast this episode, as Ben and Phil are joined by regular guest Anthony Ferrara - thinker of good ideas and long-time part-time side-line contributor to the PHP-FIG, Woody Gilk - one-speed rider & BDFL of Kohana, andBeau Simensen - author of a bunch of stuff including StackPHP. Here we’re talking about some awesome stuff the PHP-FIG ...…

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Episode 49: Async and Stuff

2+ y ago

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The notes for this episode were lost when Phil spilt some really hipster orange juice over hislaptop and bricked the whole thing. We do remember that returning guest Chris Boden and Chris Pitt swing by to talk async in PHP. In a future episode we’ll probably talk about data backup strategies. Benchmarking Codswallop: NodeJS vs PHP - An oldie bu ...…

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Episode 48: Code of Conduct

3y ago

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User-group and meet-up organizer Jenny Wong swings by for a chat about the PHP RFC for a Code of Conduct. Whilst all three of us think a Code of Conduct is a good idea, we talk through some of the various for and against reasoning that people have, and try to outline the logical failures behind some of the FUD being spread around during this di ...…

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Episode 47: SunshinePHP Town Stack Hall Radio

3y ago

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Another SunshinePHP, and another rotating panel of excellent guests talking about stuff like podcasting, making a bit of money on the side from projects like books and whatnot, and we get some folks on to cover the FIG Secretary positions, which will hopefully help the FIG solve their identity problems. Oh and Ben Marks was definitely talking a ...…

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Episode 46: Christmas Theraphpy

3y ago

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Ben and Phil have a little catch-up to try and get things back on track after a little 2015 lag. Basically this episode is just Sober Phil having a massive vent about how daft some people are on the Internet. For some reason he accidentally read some /r/lolphp and got into an argument about how they think that PHP 7 is purely a cosmetic change. ...…

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Episode 45: Live from PNWPHP

3y ago

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Live from PNWPHP ‘15, Ben and Phil are joined by guests Ben Marks, Yitzchok Willroth and later we are joined by returning guest Sara Golemon who popped in to talk about HHVM/Hack while Phil played waiter for the rest of the episode. Ben talks about Magento and some of his conference traveling madness, as does Yitz, who got trapped in a hotel fo ...…

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Episode 44: API Madness!

3+ y ago

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Listen to API pros Amanda Folson and Mike Stowe talk about API versioning, RAML, and all sorts of interesting API stuff. Phil ended up having a listen to this after the fact, and found it awesome! This episode is probably better for him not being there, as there are some opinions that didn’t initially match his, but they’re really interesting a ...…

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Episode 43: Midnight Express

3+ y ago

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Your two favourite PHP developers are joined this episode by Emir Karşıyakalı off of PHPKonf and IstanbulPHP. Istanbul is not only a beautiful and awesome city, but it’s got a thriving PHP community too, who are currently hosting a whole bunch of PHP stars for their annual conference. Once again we promised to get this up before the conference ...…

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Episode 42: Paul and Vance

3+ y ago

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After a little hiatus Phil and Ben back at it, joined this time by Paul Dragoonis and Vance Lucas. Paul does some fairly call stuff, manages the PPI framework and contributes to building the actual PHP.net website, the poor sod. Paul is also the winner in the “PHP developers from the UK who are hard to understand” contest two years running, onl ...…

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Episode 41: Loosely Town Hall - Dallas Edition

3+ y ago

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This episode is brought to you from thunderstruck Dallas, as part of the awesome conference that is Lone Star PHP. We are joined once again by the dynamic duo Jeff Carouth and Matt Frost off of the Loosely Coupled podcast! We mostly make a bunch of bad jokes then drag up the audience to talk about stuff. Lets be honest, this was a bit of a crap ...…

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Episode 40: Return of the Ferrara

3+ y ago

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Regular guest Anthony Ferrara joins us “in the studio” to talk about the new version of his scalar type hints, which since recording - a f**king month ago - has been accepted for PHP 7. We thought it would be good to have a bit of a chat about the feature, the nonsense that surrounded it and a bunch of other random internals and PHP 7 related b ...…

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Phil and Ben catch up with Josh Lockhart who has been on the show a few times before. Josh is involved in some great projects and interested in some new tools, which all kinda wind in together. PHP, FIG, League, etc. Josh joined the FIG PSR-7 which is gonna be used in Slim 3 New Stuff in Slim PHP 3.0 The new league/uploads project - more info o ...…

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Episode 37: Sunshine Round-Hall? Town-Table?1:13:23

4y ago1:13:23

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We all know that SunshinePHP is one of the PHP communities finest conferences. It attends an amazing group of people, wonderful speakers and Rasmus usually pops in for a drive-by-keynote. Every conference Phil or Ben attend has some vague promise of “yeah we’ll probably try and do a recording there or something,” but this SunshinePHP we actuall ...…

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Episode 36: PSR-7 and The World of Tomorrow52:39

4y ago52:39

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Two awesome guests join this week, from two different framework projects, both who have been very vocal about their interest in PSR-7: HTTP Message. These two chaps were Hari K T and Matthew Weier O’Phinney. Now PSR chats can be a little boring when its about autoloading or tabs v bloody spaces, but this PSR could have some really big impact on ...…

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Episode 34: /dev/hell Mashup1:33:20

4y ago1:33:20

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This is a big one. We’ve had Chris “The Grumpy Programmer” Hartjes and Ed “The Grumpy Podcaster” Finkler on our show before, but this time they both join us for a mashup! We talk about the perils of being opinionated people speaking in public. Chris basically just says fuck Reddit and all of its minions of evil, and Phil gives a bit of insight ...…

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Episode 35: Developer to CTO and Back1:21:54

4y ago1:21:54

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The grass is always greener on the other side, but we have a little talk with Gary Hockin and regular guest Jacques Woodcock about the pros and cons of going up and down the chain of command in the developer world. After all, it doesn’t just need to be a one-way street. We also talk about a few general bits, like whether PHP 5.7 should have hap ...…

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Episode 33: CakePHP, Monga and RFCs59:19

4y ago59:19

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This episode we’re joined by two two top CakePHPers Jose Diaz-Gonzalez andBryan Crowe. Ben is AWOL, Phil is insanely jet-lagged and has no idea what he is talking about. Our awesome guests try their best to carry Phil through the show, where we discuss exciting new stuff happening with CakePHP, and what we think of a few current RFCs being disc ...…

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Episode 32: Ben and Phil Catch Up1:02:38

4y ago1:02:38

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This week Ben and Phil take some time to catch up on each others lives and let you listen in. Ben doesn’t remember how to code. Phil is leaving PHP for Rails. They’re both moving again. Since we don’t have any cool tools to recommend this week you should buy our books to support the podcast: Building Secure PHP Apps - Ben Edmunds Build APIs You ...…

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Episode 31: The One about Hot Dogs47:10

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This week Ben and Phil are joined last minute by repeat guests Kayla Daniels and Matt Frost. We talk waaaaay too much about hotdogs, Phil’s fun-employment, cocaine, and what’s new in PHP-land. The recommended cool stuff of the episode is: Dossier - super secret stealth mode project for managing talk abstracts No Capes - Live Interviews with pro ...…

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Episode 30: Specs, Implementations, and New Engines OH MY!1:14:57

4y ago1:14:57

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This week Ben and Phil are joined by core PHP developer extraordinaires Andrea Faulds and Levi Morrison. We discuss the new PHP engine spec, various RFCs, and all things internals. Also PHP 6 is officially dead, let’s have a moment of silence.By ben.edmunds@gmail.com (Ben Edmunds, Phil Sturgeon).

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Episode 29: Dont Mention PHP 6 v PHP 71:19:35

4+ y ago1:19:35

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This week Ben and Phil are joined by long distance target shooter Paul M. Jones and the handsome man that is Daniel Lowrey, to talk about a whole bunch of PHP relating things. Paul has recently been talking a lot about “Action Domain Responder” which is billed as a more representativereplacement of the often mis-used “Model View Controller” arc ...…

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Episode 28: Loosley Coupled Mashup1:54:25

4+ y ago1:54:25

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In this episode, Ben and Phil join forces with Loosely Coupled to talk about Open Source, burn out and briefly discuss their favorite open source projects. Jeff was out of action for a lot of it due to unexpected wifi troubles (in San Francisco of all places) so he sadly did not get to take part as much as he would have liked. Questions this ti ...…

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Episode 27: Josh Lockhart and Jeremy Mikola1:34:47

4+ y ago1:34:47

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This episode is a long one, but we are back to improved audio and the video is not just one dude eating pzza for an hour. Josh Lockhart of PHP The Right Way and Slim fame, and Jeremy Mikola who is well known for banging on about clouds and playing magic the gathering. Oh, he also works for MongoDB. Warning: Puns and occasional swears. Some proj ...…

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Episode 26: Hello Front Range!53:26

4+ y ago53:26

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The Front Range PHP user-group joins the show as a live audience for the episode 26, in a new crazy bonus format which Phil thought might be fun. The idea of the episode is for people to generally pick our brain about PHP and code and tech and things. It kinda worked but the sound quality was terrible. Sorry about that folks. They ask us a bunc ...…

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Episode 25: Girls Aren't Any Different53:48

4+ y ago53:48

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Talking about feminism in tech is always difficult. This episode was quite a heated discussion with Kayla Daniels and Jessica D’Amico discussing their opinions about women-orientated groups such as PHPWomen and Girls Who Code. Kayla wrote an excellent article titled Not a shiny unicorn, in which she made several points. “Somehow, [being female] ...…

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Episode 24: But is it Web Scale?1:35:18

4+ y ago1:35:18

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This week Ben Edmunds calls in from Portland and Phil Sturgeon calls in from THE FUTURE. They are joined by Steve Corona to discuss Scaling PHP. Most of this conversation centers around Phil and Ben’s horrible facial hair with a few questions thrown Steve’s way to educate us on getting the most out of your LAMP stack. The main takeaways are to ...…

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Episode 23: VirtPHP - Managing your Herd of ElePHPants1:19:52

4+ y ago1:19:52

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This week Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon are joined by Jacques Woodcock and Jordan Kasper to discuss virtPHP. virtPHP is a tool for managing multiple environments on your development machine. It is similar to Python’s virtualenv or Ruby’s rbenv, but for PHP. Upcoming Conferences Phil will be speaking at PHP South Africa in April. Ben has no idea ...…

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Episode 22: The Great Joomla! License Battle of 20141:06:56

4+ y ago1:06:56

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This week Ben Edmunds is joined by new guest David Stanley and recurring guest Don Gilbert to discuss the latest Joomla! framework licensing drama. Phil was too busy having a real world life to join us this week, boo! Don does a great job of articulating why switching the Joomla! Framework to an LGPL license would be best for everyone and just ...…

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Episode 21: Attack of the Brazilians1:07:57

4+ y ago1:07:57

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This week author of “Vagrant CookBook” Érika Heidi and serial usergroup creator Rafael Dohms join the show totalk about… well, all of that. Two Brazilian PHP developers now living in Amsterdam, tell their stories and talkabout what they do. We cover a lot of conversation connected to Vagrant and some of its upcoming features and functionality. ...…

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Episode 20: A nice friendly chat about Sculpin, Guzzle and PSR-71:03:35

4+ y ago1:03:35

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Trying out a slightly more professional format with questions, Phil manages to avoid talking over everyone. Winner! This show has a history of talking about FIG stuff as it is hard to avoid. The group is working on so much cool stuffand prominent figures of the community are involved. We got two more prominent figures, who also happen to be inv ...…

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Episode 19: Jeffrey Way, Laracasts and BDFLs59:25

5y ago59:25

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Well known PHP/Laravel nice-guy Jeffrey Way from NetTuts and Laracasts joins regular guest Zack Kitzmiller todiscuss the wonderful world of Laravel once again. This time the discussion focuses on some of the silly complaintspeople have with an otherwise wonderful system, and on the reusability of its packages. Laracasts - “Hi, I’m Jeffrey. What ...…

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Episode 18: PHPDBG, HHVM and Internals54:02

5y ago54:02

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Joe Watkins and Sara Goleman join Phil to make one hell of an episode. These two are not only core contributors to PHP, but are behind a lot of RFCs and decisions that make PHP considerably better. We talk about a whole bunch of awesome stuff, including progress of the named parameters RFC - and the chances of it making in, the new accepted PHP ...…

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Episode 17: Authors Galore, Conferences and Game Changers1:02:45

5y ago1:02:45

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Cal Evans talks with us about some of the great projects he is (and has) been involved with, including training days, writing books, speaking, organising conferences and a bunch more. Seriously, this guy has done a shitload of stuff: Voices of the Eephant Podcast NomadPHP Day Camp 4 Developers Signaling PHP Book More relevant links: Build API’s ...…

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Episode 16: Laravel 4.1, Go and the Vagrant Fistfight1:17:36

5y ago1:17:36

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Taylor Otwell comes back on the show for a second time and regular guest Zack Kitzmiller turns up to coerce Taylorinto letting him speak at LaraCon 2014. Taylor was the first guest we ever had on PHP Town Hall talking about his plans for Laravel 4 before it was even released, so it gives us a great opportunity to look back on the year and see h ...…

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Episode 15: The Joomla Framework and the ongoing history of PSR-41:12:14

5y ago1:12:14

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The wonderfully handsome Don Gilbert joins us on our new YouTube Channel for our first live-recording of PHP Town Hall! He’s been working on the Joomla Framework to get it up to scratch with modern standards ready for a Joomla CMS rewrite, much in the same way that EllisLab pulled CodeIgniter out of ExpressionEngine… except for the standards bi ...…

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Episode 14: Ship Like a Candian, Eh?1:05:06

5y ago1:05:06

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This episode Ben and Phil are joined by Lee Tengum, who has sold more appsthan Phil and Ben have even thought of. He founded Pancake Payments which hasbeen featured in Inc. Magazine and is doing very well in the very crowded sector of invoice, time-trackingand basic project management. Lee also works as a freelance developer for local companies ...…

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Episode 13: PHP Internals, Service-orientated Architecture and Language Wars53:30

5y ago53:30

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Some episodes of this show are brought to you after more beers than others. This is one of those episodes where its more, so if you don’t like swearing and listening to a slightly confused Bristolian ramble about points he occasionally forgets then you might want to skip this one. Regardless Ben, Zack K. and Phil discuss the difference between ...…

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Episode 12: Awesome RFCs and Yolo1:04:19

5y ago1:04:19

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Silex and PHP contributor Igor Wiedler joins Ben and Phil to talk about his recently accepted RFC: Importing namespaced functions along with a bunch of other super-nerdy things that he has been working on. PHP: a fractal of bad design - The trollol bible PHP RFC: Variadics PHP RFC: Argument Unpacking Mozilla’s JavaScript Spread Operator Yolo St ...…

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Episode 11: Bike Safety1:15:49

5y ago1:15:49

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Learn what happens when you wear high-heels on a bike, and what can go wrong if you get into an unstable spin when you jump out of a plane. We also talk about code. Charles - A HTTP proxy Postman - REST Client The PHP League of Extraordinary Packages PHP RFC: Constant Scalar Expressions GothamJS - The New York JavaScript Conference SkiPHP…

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Episode 10: Postgres, Bla, Bla, Cider55:46

5+ y ago55:46

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This time around we’re joined by Selena Deckelmann, who as a Postgres contributortalks to us about some of the burning questions many PHP developers often have about Postgreswhen considering it as a replacement for the PHP’s defacto-standard relational DB: MySQL. We ask “Why are so few of the “cool kids” using Postgresql?” and “What are the mos ...…

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Episode 9: Is OAuth 2 The Devil?54:39

5+ y ago54:39

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Alex Bilbie and Zackary Blank come on the show to talk about OAuth 2, which has been getting a lot of flamey bad press over the last year or two after the original author quit the project. Why these guys? Well, Alex until recently was working at the University of Lincoln where they did a whole bunch of OAuth 2 work as auth for various API proje ...…

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