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This week we’re joined by David Rogers, aka @al_the_x, to hear how he’s teaching PHP in college courses for brand-new progammers. We also talk about what possessed Ed to develop his own unit testing framework. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 36.2MB, 1:21:23) Links and Notes Fictive Kin Ruby on Rails developer course PyTennessee Article (promotional) on “the two week problem” Examples of in-class coding dojos from Valencia Valencia Digital Media on Github Intro to Programming with PHP Intro to Programming with JS Slim Framework Valitron FUnit Testify

The big four-oh hits us, this time with our special Fictive Kin friend Sean Coates. We talk lots about deploying web applications in various languages, the imapct Composer has had on PHP development, formal and informal mentoring, and how to get accepted to speak at conferences. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 32.1MB, 1:09:20) Links and Notes Fictive Kin Calvin & Hobbes transmogrifier RVM + Bundler Composer + Packagist PIP + Virtualenv Built-in server in PHP 5.4+ Flask Shared-nothing architectures PHPMentoring.org Tug Mcgraw Webshell Variadic functions in PHP 5.6 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argument_unpacking

Okay, first off, this episode sounds like crap. We weren’t really prepared to record and used half-assed equipment and stuff. Sorry guys. It should at least be listenable. Anyway, this was recorded the night before SkiPHP started, which was an awesome PHP conference in Salt Lake City. We ramble about a lot of stuff, including our first conferences, America’s first serial killer, our approaches for giving talks, and Chris' secret identity. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 26.2MB, 59:45) Links and Notes SkiPHP H Hatfield H H Holmes The Devil in the White City Shush.app Variadic functions RFC In and Out Secret Menu

In this podcast recorded AFTER True North PHP, Chris and Ed are joined by the esteemed Jonathan Snook, web developer extraordinaire. We talk about the heady days of Twitter app dev, how Jonathan got to be a Big Deal, and why there are so many Snooks in web dev. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 26.5MB, 59:40) Links and Notes Remembrance Day Hardcore History podcast Dark Secret Place Spaz Snook’s site SMACSS

In this podcast recorded before True North PHP, we talk to Paul M Jones, creator of the Solar framework and Aura component library. Lots of stuff about confusing things like dependency injection and human behavior in tribes. Probably someone will get mad about this episode. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 27.9MB, 1:02:24) Links and Notes Aura Service Injection/DI/whatev RequireJS MWOP Laravel RAP BEEF Tribalism Temerity The Fog Of War Jets vs Sharks Paul’s blog post where he gets yelled at a bunch

So our pace is a little slower due to work crap, but DEV HELL LIVES. Episode 6d6 kicks off with us waxing about what’s exciting in PHP development nowadays. We also talk about upcoming appearances at TrueNorth PHP, NomadPHP and SkiPHP. Then we get into the discussion of alcohol consumption at tech conferences, and malware on the PHP.net site. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 25.7MB, 55:08) Links and Notes TrueNorth PHP NomadPHP SkiPHP HHVM Hack for HHVM presentation slides Composer Dev server in PHP 5.4 Respect/Validation Idiorm Booze, Babes and Buttholes Blog post on malware served from PHP.net

FINALLY! We’re back from the Summer of Funksanity hiatus with a new show. We talk about Ed’s speaking tour stops at OSCON, Distill, and Madison Ruby. We also discuss the exciting new mental illness awareness campaign Engine Yard has started, called Prompt. PHP Internals jabbering gets touched on a little, and Chris’s softball league. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 27.3MB, 55:09) Links and Notes In our usual epic-length conversation we talked about: PHP internals Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness speaking campaign Prompt OSCON Distill Madison Ruby

This time out our Very Special Guest is Sara Goleman, long-time PHP core contributor, author of the only good book on writing extensions for PHP and the driving force behind that open source projects of HipHop for PHP, a virtual machine, runtime and Just-In-Time compiler for PHP that powers much of Facebook’s infrastructure. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 29MB, 1:05:09) Links and Notes In our usual epic-length conversation we talked about: The HipHop Virtual Machine The soul-crushing experience of the “PHP internals” mailing list Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness Summer Tour The TrueNorthPHP Call for Papers opened up and the code is open source Discussions about how the three of us find the energy to give a shit about everything Alternate books from the Bible Comforting sounds to work too Finally, how can we tell if Sara is pissed? Also, as a totally random thing from the show notes, you might want to take a look at Blue Hackers

Back in the saddle for the double-tres, Chris and Ed rap about the loss of trust in Google and how that affects their perception of the Go language. Then Ed babbles for way too long about vintage gaming and computing. Chris wonders how you could be truly private on the Internet in the light of widespread government surveillance. Finally, we talk about the importance of automation and repeatable processes. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 28.3MB, 1:02:20) Links and Notes Go XRGB Mini Framemeister OpenEmu Compiling from source X-Arcade Mac OS X driver for XBox 360 controller The Tor Project Vagrant Puppet

At this year’s tek13 we did another live show. The difference this time is that we didn’t have free booze, so turnout was a little low, but it was still super fun. We talked about hobbies we have outside of coding and how they impact our dev skills (hint: minimally), and what folks favorite talks at tek13 were. Probably other stuff too, but it’s been a while and I forgot. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 29.5MB, 1:05:27) Links and Notes tek13 Magic The Gathering Kobe Beef Fallout Wiki Some music Ed wrote Beer League Nike Fuelband