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We hit the Double Deuce this week with special guest Jim Gay. Jim is the author of Clean Ruby, the upcoming book that applies “Data, Context and Interaction” (DCI) concepts to Ruby and Rails development. Jim is clearly much smarter than us, so we took this opportunity to attack him mercilessly as a representative of the sexist Ruby community. Jim also shares his experiences as a self-published author. In addition, we talk about how True North PHP planning is going for Chris, and Ed’s experiences at Brooklyn Beta. If you’re a true believer, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 33.1MB, 1:14:41) Links and Notes Jim Gay Clean Ruby Brooklyn Beta Cory Booker True North PHP Maciej “Pinboard guy” Ceglowski Ben Pieratt Codeconnexx 30x500 DCI on Wikipedia DCI web site GeekFeminism Wiki article on CouchDB talk at the 2009 Golden Gate Ruby Conference Anti-Oppression 101

Twenty-one. Like blackjack. Like the gun salute. For those about to rock. We recorded this episode just a few days after #20, because we were able to get Elizabeth Naramore as a super-special secret guest! She talks to us about Codeconnexx, an open source tech and life skills conference in Indianapolis Nov 8-9. We also talked a lot about getting women to submit talks to conferences, including the success that Jan Lehnardt has had in this area with JSConfEU. We then get into Chris’s experiments with JS testing, and what we think of App.net from a developer perspective. If you’re support the inalienable rights of all humans, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 28.5MB, 1:06:42) Links and Notes Codeconnexx True North PHP Øredev 2012 How We Got 25% Women Speakers for JSConf EU 2012 Elizabeth Naramore’s Blog Qunit Jasmine Chai Mocha Sinon App.net Post photo by Liene Verzemnieks/@li3n3

EPISODE DOS EQUIS! Our 20th show goes out to all the haters. IN YOUR FACE HATERS. This week we talk about how Chris sucks at cooking food, which segues nicely into a discussion of the True North PHP conference that he’s co-organizing in Toronto in November. Thankfully he will not be catering the event himself. We also talk about Ed’s move from doing PHP to Python for day-to-day work, and the plusses and minuses he’s encountered during the transition. If you’re a Superfriend, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 35.4MB, 1:21:40) Links and Notes True North PHP php2python Hyperpolyglot Cobra Language Argparse Python lib

After some downtime spent taking mental reps, Chris and Ed are back with a vengeance for one of our best shows. Joining us is Chris Shiflett, PHP fellow and security expert. They talk about how we interact with non-techie members of dev teams, what they’re doing with Node, the state of the Canadian soccer program, heavy vs lightweight frameworks, tribalism in programming communities, and the importance of balancing work with life. We also talk to Chris Shiflett about his role as co-founder of Brooklyn Beta, and what they’re trying to accomplish with the conference. If you’re more animal than man, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 42.1MB, 1:37:04) Links and Notes “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” –Robert A Heinlein Read Write Web: Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login Funkatron.com: We’re the Stupid Ones: Facebook, Google, and Our Failure as Developers Zend Framework Symfony Slim Flask Silex Jon Tan on The Pastry Box Project Paul Graham: How To Lose Time And Money Brooklyn Beta Beyond Beta Todd Park, US CTO Viktoria Harrison of Charity: Water

This week on /dev/hell is “let’s talk about arguments Chris got into on Twitter” week. Most of the discussion revolves around how we interact with users, both developer-types and average joes. If you value humanity, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 25.3MB, 57:49) Links Ed forgot to save the notes. Welp.

This week on /dev/hell we talk about mentoring. Chris discusses his experiences taking a young up-and-comer under his wing, and we talk about the PHP Mentoring project. Then we babble about Aspen, an interesting, non-traditional Python web framework. Good and bad stuff in PHP gets knocked around again. Finally, Ed talks about fixing his dryer and yells at the audience. If you love freedom, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 31.9MB, 1:16) Links PHP Mentoring Aspen.io PHP: The Good Parts Maytag Dryer Disassembly

After a couple weeks off, we get back into the profane swing of things. We kick off with alittle followup on the previous episode on mental illness, but decide to quit bumming everybody out by moving on to cool tech stuff. Ed talks a little about Reaper, a new digital audio workstation he’s using to do production on the podcast. Then we chat about remote pair programming with browser-based editors like Cloud9. Finally we cover Chris' experiences at Lonestar PHP, and what each of us gets out of speaking at conferences. If you care about us, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 26.6MB, 58:17) Links Reaper Cloud9 Ares SubEthaEdit Lonestar PHP

On today’s Very Special Episode of /dev/hell, we talk about Ed’s struggles with depression and anxiety, and how it’s impacted him as a member of the open source community. Yeah, we know, total buzzkill, but this is important stuff. We hope that by talking about it, folks with similar issues will be more likely to seek help. We’d really like to hear from you about this topic. You can leave us a comment, or send us a link & we’ll collect the responses. Here’s your homework for this week, suckas: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 40.5MB, 1:31) Links Generalized Anxiety Disorder Major depression Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors Dave Duerson Junior Seau Seasonal Affective Disorder Light therapy Impostor Syndrome

This week we’re joined by Justin Searls, JavaScript developer and JS testing EXPERT. We talk lots about building and testing “fat” browser apps, particularly about best practices and different testing approaches. After a while Chris felt bad and told us to shut up. This was the first podcast we broadcast live while recording. Big ups to WonderNetwork for providing the streaming bandwidth, and Engine Yard for sponsoring the podcast. Keep an eye on the @dev_hell Twitter account for info on our next live stream. If you love us, you will do these things: You should follow us on Twitter here. You should rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 33.1MB, 1:16) Notes TestDouble training.gaslightsoftware.com Backbone Idiomatic JS Require.js Jasmine Cucumber Behat Michael Feathers book on working with legacy code Rails asset pipeline Dieter for Clojure Kohana Assets Assetic Webassets for Python Drumkit.js by Chris Powers QUnit Searls on GitHub https://github.com/searls/jasmine-fixture https://github.com/searls/jasmine-given https://github.com/searls/jasmine-stealth Pro JavaScript (John Resig)

This episode was recorded at the tek12 uncon in front of a live studio audience. We talk about pair programming, what we’d recommend to folks who want to start programming, the PHP-FIG & PSRs, and our favorite events from tek12. Also Chris punched Ed a couple times. It hurt. Video hosting for this episode is provided by WonderNetwork, who generate some really cool ping data. This was lots of fun, and we want to thank all the folks who came out and participated. Extra special big thanks to Michelangelo Van Dam for lending us his audio recording hardware, and Cal Evans for recording the video! Please do this so we don’t have to burn you alive: You should follow us on Twitter here. You should rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 42.4MB, 1:07) Watch Watch now (MP4 Video, 1.1GB, 1:07) Notes tek12 Remote Pair Programming blog PHP-FIG discussion group PHP-FIG standards repo WonderNetwork