php[podcast] episodes from php[architect] episodes:

• December 08, 2020Interview with Beth Tucker Long

  Beth Tucker Long chats with Eric Van Johnson and John Congdon about taking over the finally{} column and more.
  

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  * How she got involved with PHP, going to conferences, and php[architect].
  

  * Her career as a trainer, editor, dev evangelist, and consultant.
  

  * Attending and speaking at conferences when you have a young family.
  

  * Why she had to learn PHP in one day.
  

  
  

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• November 23, 2020Type hints, SOLID programming, burn out, and more

  Listen to Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the articles in the November 2020 issue, SOLID Foundations
  

  Topics Covered
  

  
  

  * OSMI 2020 Mental Health in Tech Survey.
  

  * Practical uses for scalar type hints in PHP.
  

  * SOLID principles for programming.
  

  * The peculiarities of floating point math and handling money calculations as a result.
  

  * Using locks to prevent race conditions.
  

  * Podcasts to listen to related to PHP and web development.
  

  * Using __debugInfo() to keep secrets safe.
  

  * Preventing burn out.
  

  * and more (as usual)
  

  
  

   
  

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• November 17, 2020Editor Bytes – SOLID Foundations

  Editor-in-chief Oscar Merida looks into the November 2020 issue, SOLID Foundations.
  

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• October 28, 2020Asynchronous programming, testing, race conditions, mental health in tech, and more

  Listen to Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the articles in the October 2020 issue, Running Parallel.
  

  Topics Covered
  

  
  

  * OSMI 2020 Mental Health in Tech Survey.
  

  * Asynchronous PHP with Swoole.
  

  * Scaling and other use cases for serverless tasks, like file uploads.
  

  * This month’s puzzle on cleaning up directions.
  

  * Paying down technical debt with unit tests.
  

  * Finding and fixing race conditions.
  

  * Setting headers to harden your web application with Mozilla Observatory.
  

  * WSL, homestead, and developing on Windows using Linux tools.
  

  * and more (as usual)
  

  
  

   
  

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• October 27, 2020Interview with Demin Yin on Swoole

  Demin Yin, evangelist for Swoole, joins Eric Van Johnson and John Congdon to talk about the project and more.
  

  Topics Covered
  

  
  

  * Writing event-driven, non-blocking PHP applications.
  

  * Supporting for asynchronous programming and concurrent processes.
  

  * Performance of Swoole for handling millions of requests.
  

  * Taking advantage of extensions to add new features or improve performance.
  

  * Integrations with PHP frameworks like Laminas.
  

  * Swoole as an HTTP server and in embedded devices.
  

  * Getting started with HTML, CSS, and other dynamic languages for web development.
  

  
  

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• October 08, 2020Editor Bytes – Parallel Running

  Editor-in-chief Oscar Merida looks into the October 2020 issue, Parallel Running.
  

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• September 30, 2020Middleware, Serializing Objects,

  This episode looks at the September 2020 issue, Under the Scope.
  

  Topics covered
  

  
  

  * Using middleware, especially in legacy applications.
  

  * Use cases for serializing PHP objects.
  

  * Cleaning up directions and cleaning up data sets.
  

  * Development tools you should have, like Mailhog and ngrok.
  

  * Development environments with WSL and Docker.
  

  * Using Mozilla Observatory to assess site security.
  

  * Decoupling and design patterns for sustainable PHP.
  

  * PHP’s release maintainers.
  

  * Digging into how autoloading works and improves the developer experience.
  

  * Formation of the PHP-FIG at php[tek] in 2009.
  

  
  

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• September 23, 2020Interview with Terri Morgan

  Eric and John chat with Terri Morgan about her article on project metrics in the September 2020 issue.
  

  Topics Covered
  

  
  

  * Providing valid metrics for project managers.
  

  * Establishing “where you want to go” as your project goal.
  

  * Defining deliverables and when you’ll have them.
  

  * Managing scope creep.
  

  * Speaking and attending conferences.
  

  * Being a polyglot programmer.
  

  
  

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• September 10, 2020Editor Bytes – Under the Scope

  Editor-in-chief Oscar Merida looks into the September 2020 issue, Under the Scope.
  

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• August 31, 2020Document databases, MySQL, JSON-Schema validation, and PHP types

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  Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the August 2020 issue, Data Discipline.
  

  Topics Covered
  

  
  

  * Using SQL with non-relational databases.
  

  * Data integrity with UUIDs and primary keys.
  

  * Connecting and working to databases directly.
  

  * Rolling dice with PHP
  

  * Thinking about data types.
  

  * Using Windows or Linux as your daily driver.
  

  
  

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