php[podcast] episodes from php[architect]

Listen to Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the articles in the January 2021 issue, Newfangled Views.

Topics Covered

* Front-end coding with Vue and React.

* Responsibilities when you’re a development lead

* Security of third-party resources

* Learning new skills and avoiding burnout.

* Mimicking AWS S3 with Minio

 

Eric and John talk to long-time contributor Chris Tankersley about contributing to the magazine and more.

Topics Covered

* Getting started in programming and web development with PHP.

* Docker and using it across operating systems.

* Developing with PHP and the ecosystem around it.

* What kind of things he tries to cover in Education Station for self-taught programmers.

* Streaming when he codes and what editor he likes to use nowadays.

Our crew interviews recent contributor Vinícius Campitelli about his articles and involvement with PHP.

Topics Covered

* Applying SOLID principles and object calisthenics in practice.

* Getting into programming by scripting IRC chat bots.

* Working with PHP professionally.

* Transitioning into teaching programming.

* PHP User Groups in Brazil and speaking at conferences and meetups.

* Looking forward to the new features of PHP 8.

Listen to Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the articles in the December 2020 issue, PHP 8 Bits and Git

Topics Covered

* OSMI 2020 Mental Health in Tech Survey.

* Features in PHP 8 we’re looking forward to using, like constructor property promotion and named arguments.

* Being more productive with Git, aliases, and hooks.

* Using the circuit breaker pattern.

* Andreas Heigl and PHP documentation project.

* and more (as usual)

 

Oscar Merida, the Editor-in-Chief, looks at the December 2020 issue, PHP 8 Bits and Git

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

Topics Covered

* 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.

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)

 

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

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)

 

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.