php[podcast] episodes from php[architect]

In Episode 24

Eric, John, and Oscar discuss some of the articles in the September 2019 issue “Master of Puppets”.

Topics

* History of PHP, celebrating “25 Years of PHP”, and the Impact Awards at php[world]

* Using Puphpeteer to automate Chromium browser tasks and testing.

* Code style, and refactoring legacy code.

* Code editors from VIM (and why Eric thinks everyone must learn it) to PHPStorm and Visual Studio Code.

* Promoting speaker diversity at conferences.

* Joe Ferguson joins to chat about generating PDFs with PHP, networking via user groups and conferences, migrating to Laravel 6, Homestead, and Open Sourcing Mental Illness (osmi.org).

In Episode 23

Eric, John, and Oscar go through the August 2019 issue.

Topics

* Getting started with Symfony 4

* Managing legacy codebases

* PHP++ and the future of PHP

* Karl Hughes talks about running the Chicago PHP User Group.

* Writing better object-oriented code

In Episode 22

Eric, John, and Oscar talk about the July 2019 issue and this year’s php[world].

Topics

* John’s talks at php[world] in the fall and a few tips for preparing and rehearsing new talks.

* Getting started with Elasticsearch and working with specialized search solutions.

* Defensive coding practices and defending against insider threats.

* Maura Teal about her upcoming talk on WordPress Under Pressure: Tales of Sites at Scale, learning to program from her parents, WordPress’ reputation, and scaling large multi-site installs.

* Local development environments with Docker, Devilbox, as well as Amazon Linux.

* Preventing burn out with advice from Community Corner.

* WordPress, PHP, and semantic versioning.

In Episode 21

Eric, John, and Oscar are back post-php[tek] to discuss the June 2019 issue.

Topics

* John and Oscar mention what they liked from speakers and sponsors at php[tek].

* Eric’s experience with serverless application performance and thinking about when and where to use it.

* A functional approach to taming arrays with PHP’s built-in functions for map, reduce, sort, and filter.

* Memoization and how you might already have used it to speed up function calls.

* Managing keys, secrets, and passwords securely.

* Chris Tankersley joins the episode to talk about writing for php[architect], going to conferences, and dives into the Data Structures extension he covered in this issue.

In Episode 20

Eric, John, and Oscar are back talking about PHP, and the May 2019 issue.

Topics

* John and Eric discuss Serverless PHP, Deploying ReactPHP Applications, Mysql 8.o, and more.

* Oscar talks about using Composer with Magento and similar experiences with Drupal, network tunneling with ngrok.com, and a reminder that the php[world] Call for Speakers is open through June 7th.

* An interview with Rob K Allen (@akrabat) about using his first article on using PHP on AWS Lambda with Bref.

In Episode 19

Eric, John, and Oscar record together again to discuss the April 2019 issue on the new frontend fundamentals, php[tek], and quite a lot more about web browsers than anyone anticipated.

Topics

* Eric and John get a look behind the scenes into what goes into producing each magazine issue.

* From the March magazine issue: new features of CSS, caching application output, templating and Twig, managing support issues, and more

* Chatting with Chris Hartjes, php[tek] testing track chair, podcasting, community conferences and getting the most out of one, and working at Mozilla.

In this Episode

We’re trying a new format in this episode. Eric, John, and Oscar recorded together. Let us know what you think of the new format? Should we keep it?

Topics

* Eric and John get a look behind the scenes into what goes into producing each magazine issue.

* Call for Writers – get feedback on talk/article proposals.

* From the March magazine issue: scaling your database, owning your content with Indieweb, OAuth and CSRF protection, the benefits of type hints in PHP 7 code, Margaret Staples’ survey results for Women in History month and more.

* An interview with Barry O’Donovan about migrating legacy applications to Laravel, his involvement with PHP, and PHP’s reputation in other communities.

Editor-in-Chief Oscar Merida records a mini-episode. In this first one, he looks at some RFCs submitted for PHP 7.4 and 8.0, and a new tool for detecting memory leaks with PHP Unit. Also, don’t forget to register to attend and support Symfony’s speaker workshop which starts soon.  Details are in the episode and links are in the show notes below.

In This Episode

This episode features Eric Van Johnson, John Congdon, Lukas Kawhe Smith, Jill Binder, and Oscar Merida.

Please support the Symfony diversity speaker mentoring initiative and mark your calendar to attend on March 24th and March 31s at 10:00 AM PST/ 19:00 PM CET. Note, the ticket you purchase through opencollective is for both days of the workshop because of the way it handles two-day events.  While you can attend for free, if you can afford it consider paying $10 for your ticket or, even better, $20 to help fund free tickets for others.

Please, share your thoughts on the topics discussed and leave a comment below. If you like this episode, please let us know by liking and reviewing it wherever you listen to the podcast.

Topics

* Eric and John discuss php[tek] 2017 and the track chairs, scaling web applications, diversity in tech, accessibility, using tmux and vim, upgrading to PHP 7.3, finding dead code, and more.

* Oscar talks about upgrading a Drupal 7 site to use PHP 7 and the performance improvement he measured and kicking off a Call for Writers for the magazine.

* Talking to Jill Binder about the workshop she created to support new conference speakers and Lukas Kawhe Smith about attracting more diverse contributors to the Symfony community.

In This Episode

Eric Van Johnson, John Congdon, Jennifer Wadella, and Oscar Merida are featured in the first episode of 2019. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below.

You can read Jennier Wadellas’ There Are No Snow Days When You Work Remote article in the January 2019 issue.

Topics

* Eric and John discuss learning about how the OPCache works, working with Jenkins, being a remote worker, and diving into PHP internals.

* Oscar talks lessons learned when adding AWS S3 service to phparch.com. He also describes the all-new approach to tracks and speakers for php[tek] 2019.

* An interview with Jennifer Wadella from Kansas City about remote working, her community work to reach women and minorities in tech, and kombucha brewing,