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June 23, 2020 Interview with Eric Mann, Security Corner contributor
In this Episode
Eric van Johnson and John Congdon talk to Security Corner contributor Eric Mann about keeping your website secure.

* How a breach sparked his interest in security.
* The value of tokens and nonces.
* What area of security needs more attention.
* How to use end-to-end encryption for communication.
* Using Linux as your daily driver i.e Operating System.
* What frameworks he prefers to work with.
* WordPress security.
* PHP’s core security.
* Tips for working securely at home.

40 min
May 28, 2020 Machine Learning with Liam Wiltshire
In this interview, Eric and John talk to Liam Wiltshire about his Machine Learning articles (Part two here) in the April and May 2020 issues of the magazine.
Topics Covered

* How he transitioned from music into building web sites.
* Speaking at PHP conferences.
* Using machine learning with PHP and why he wrote this series.
* Assessing the quality of your input data.
* Ethical considerations when using machine learning.
* Laravel and Liam’s contributions to the PHP community

42 min
May 21, 2020 Headless Drupal, Replay Tokens, PHP 8, History and Computing, and more
We’re switching our episode format this month. We’re splitting into two episodes: one a discussion of the developer topics from the latest issue and a separate episode will feature an interview with a contributor. In this episode, we talk about the articles in the May 2020 Issue, Unsupervised Learning.
Topics

* Headless Drupal and distributed content stores.
* Pros and cons of passwordless authentication and password security.
* Securing your API against replay attacks with nonces.
* HTTP Responses and status codes
* Computing history, thinking like an experienced dev, and how the government might regulate today’s tech giants.
* A correction about York PHP user group organizers.
* Looking forward to PHP 8.

40 min
April 21, 2020 Machine Learning, OpenAPI, and the Business of PHP
This month, we chat with Sherri Wheeler about the Business of PHP and other topics from the April 2020 magazine.
Topics

* Getting started using machine learning with PHP.
* API design and how the OpenAPI can automate and improve your architecture.
* Writing command line scripts with Symfony’s Console components.
* PHP communities that don’t realize it and the business case for PHP 7
* What makes up a web request

57 min
March 26, 2020 Magento’s Evolution, Ecommerce, Development Environments, and Enterprise Software.
In Episode 30
In this episode, we dive into How Magento is Evolving and chat with Magento evangelist Ben Marks.
Topics

* The free magazine issue courtesy of Adobe and Magento.
* An interview with Ben Marks on how Magento went from an open-source project to its acquisition, the value of the community and ecosystem, how Magento 2 changed the landscape, how to get started working with the platform, and the future.
* Approaches for updating legacy codebases.
* Using asynchronous processes.
* How stepping away can help you when you’re stuck on a problem.
* Options for setting up development environments for a project.
* What exactly the term “Enterprise Software” means.

1 hr 13 min
February 19, 2020 Jennifer Schrader on Pair Programming, Coding Interviews
In Episode 29
In the February episode, we dive into the issue Cultivating the Developer Experience and interview Jennifer Schrader.
Topics

* Benefits of structuring code reviews.
* The value of integration and functional tests.
* Content management systems in PHP
* Sulu CMS and its focus on Developer Experience (DX)
* Jennifer talks about her experiences trying out pair programming and working with PHP.
* TLS certificates and encryption with Lets Encrypt.
* Technical Debt, Y2K, and upcoming Unix timestamp bugs.
* Project Estimates and Costs.
* Interviewing and hiring programmers.
* Oscar’s editorials

1 hr 18 min
January 28, 2020 Arrays in PHP, Web Browsers, Security Habits, and Matthew Turland
In Episode 28
In this episode for January 2020, we take a look at this month’s issue “New Habits.” This month we’re joined by php[architect] book and magazine author Matthew Turland.
Topics

* Using (or not) PHP arrays to write cleaner code.
* Learning how browsers render HTML+CSS
* Talking about writing object-oriented code with Matthew Turland, updating his Web Scraping book, speaking at conferences, and his involvement in the PHP community.
* Confessing our security sins
* The Whys and Hows of Testing
* Working with Ansible to configure servers and the value of documenting your infrastructure.
* Arizona PHP and user groups in general.
* Certifications in the tech industry

55 min
December 20, 2019 Migrating Frameworks, Depression and Mental Health, Laravel Vapor and Michael Akopov
In Episode 27
For December 2019, we take a look at this month’s issue “Expedition PHP.” Our guest this month is Michael Akopov.
Topics

* php[tek] Call for Speakers and tips for submitting your talks.
* Migrating to a new framework.
* Mental health in technology.
* Why and how you can contribute to Open Source.
* Understanding how encryption ciphers works.
* A real-life example of how thinking like a computer helps to understand a bug.
* An interview with Michael Akopov about his background and diving into using serverless applications with Laravel Vapor.
* Further discussions about understanding and using the Dependency Injection pattern.

1 hr 8 min
November 25, 2019 Object Oriented Programming, PHP 7.4, CPP extensions with Lochemem Bruno Michael, and Dependency Injection
In Episode 26
Just before the Thanksgiving holidays in the United States, we reviewed the November 2019 issue “Object Orientation.”
Topics

* Evolution of object-oriented programing in PHP and understanding how to use objects effectively.
* Avoiding career stagnation and networking at conferences and user groups.
* PHP 7.4’s release and what features we’re looking forwards to.
* Eric becomes the new Community Corner contributor.
* Chatting about building PHP extensions and CouchDB with Lochemem Bruno Michael.
* Thinking like a computer (sometimes too much?) and the value of abstractions.
* Understanding Dependency Injection and how to get it to “click.”
* The value of frameworks versus “plain” PHP.

1 hr 29 min
October 28, 2019 Interviews from php[world]: Cal Evans, Taylor Otwell, Samantha Quiñones, and Gary Hockin
In Episode 25
Our crew sat down and snagged some interviews in the atrium at php[world] in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. This episode packs a lot into one hour and 13 minutes.
Topics

* Practical static analysis tools like Psalm and PHPStan and moving away from DocBlocks to using native PHP 7 type hints.
* John reflects on how his first talk went and the keys to giving a good talk.
* Cal Evans on php[world], the breadth of the PHP community, new stuff in PHP 7.4, searching for PHP related information online, and his new role with SiteGround.
* Taylor Otwell discusses how Laravel started, what’s new in Laravel 6, the potential impact of PHP 7’s JIT compiler, focusing on open-source and educational efforts in 2020, and funding open-source work.
* Gary Hockin goes over his advice in Community Corner about getting started in public speaking, how speaking at conferences can impact your career, and how to choose talk topics.
* Samantha Quiñones chats about her keynote at php[world], the history of computing, COBOL, preparing talks, PHP’s strength as a web-first language, and working at SkillShare.

1 hr 14 min