Three Devs and a Maybe

By Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains, Edd Mann

Join us each week as we discuss all things software development. Frequently joined by a far more intelligent guest on the show's topic, we by no means know everything, but love what we do. Topics rang... more

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January 14, 201554: Three Devs and a Aimee
It is the first show of the new year!
In this weeks episode we first reflect on how our holiday breaks went, and what happened to Edd’s face?!
Fraser’s move up to Greenwich is next discussed, including how useful the taxi app ‘Uber’ is.
We then move on to talk about Mick’s experiences compiling Apache and PHP from source, along with CodeIgniter’s decision to maintain 5.2 support.
This leads on to conversation about the upcoming PHP UK Conference, along with tuning queries for the database query planner.
Finally, we highlight the differences between Apache and nginx, along with their use of PHP-FPM.
Show Links
Queen and Adam Lambert - New Years Eve 2014

Pull Request #3450 - bcit-ci/CodeIgniter - GitHub

password_hash - PHP Manual

Uber

PHP UK Conference 2015

Cons Lists and Folds in PHP

lstrojny/functional-php

emoji.ink

Using EXPLAIN in PostgreSQL

The PostgreSQL Query Planner

Apache 2.x on Unix systems - PHP Manual

Ratchet

devristo/phpws

nginx

PHP-FPM

Apple iMac for less than 400 pounds? - Twitter

EU VAT law could kill THOUSANDS of online businesses

isset() vs. empty() - Stack Overflow

WhatsApp starts encrypting users’ messages - BBC News
...more
1h
December 31, 201453: End of Year Review
In this weeks episode Mick and Edd reflect on their busy years.
We first discuss how work has wrapped up for the new year, and how subtle design changes result in huge benefits.
Following this, we compare our personal experiences with product and agency work - chatting about the different programming design mindsets and work-flows used in each case.
This leads on to the well-timed appreciation for the work of Martin Fowler, Uncle Bob and Greg Young - inc. valuable tests, the importance of a name and there not being a single ‘silver bullet’ to solving a problem.
Finally, we wrap up with what we both would like to learn this upcoming year and Edd’s experiences building a mega PC for a friend.
Show Links
Hexagonal Architecture

Keep your branch clean with Fixup and Autosquash

Greg Young - The art of destroying software

10 Books Every Java Developer Should Read

The Internals of Git

Jenkins CI

Feature toggle

What’s the difference between Active Record and Data Mapper?

Martin Fowler

Uncle Bob

Ian Cooper - TDD, where did it all go wrong

Using pull requests

Using Pull Requests as Code Reviews

The Clean Architecture

The SOLID Principles

Principles of OOD

Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern

Greg Young

Clojure

Domain-driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Implementing Domain-Driven Design
...more
58min
December 23, 201452: The Christmas Episode
It is two days before Christmas but that will not stop us from recording a new episode.
This week we discuss Frasers gambling hot-streak at Ascot, Micks move and how horrible Martinis are.
We then move on to how Fraser is getting on in his new job up in London and Micks University presentation on Fuzzy Logic.
This leads us on to how ‘unrandom’ humans are, and professional Rock-Paper-Scissors tournaments.
Finally, Edd brings up some interesting talks by Greg Young (on EventStore) and Rich Hickey (on software design).
Have a great Christmas everyone and thanks for your loyal listenership!
Show Links
Ascot Racecourse

Code School

Redmine

Backbone.js

Fuzzy logic

Candy Crush Saga

Pseudorandomness

World RPS Society

Space Jam Status on Twitter

Space Jam

CQRS

Greg Young’s Blog

gregyoung on Twitter

Event Store

gregoryyoung/m-r - GitHub

Skills Matter - Show and Tell with Greg Young

Skills Matter - Greg Young’s Advanced CQRS & DDD Workshop

Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing

CQRS/DDD by Greg Young

Greg Young - Querying Event Streams

Greg Young - Polyglot Data

The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey’s Brain

Rich Hickey’s Greatest Hits - The Changelog

Are We There Yet? - Rich Hickey

Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickeye

Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey

Design, Composition and Performance - Rich Hickey

PHP-Qt

wxPHP

PHP-GTK

Atom

Brackets

MiniDisc

Dive Into Everything! - httpJunkie
...more
42min
December 09, 201451: Midweek Random Rambles
In our 51st podcast we temporarily revert to a midweek recording of the show.
This essentially means we were all a bit tired and delirious, leading to some fantastic randomness, none more than Lew’s ‘different’ introduction to the show. We will let you be judges of that!
Following our usual discussion of how things are panning out in our working week, we then move on to discuss some of the interesting security issues cropping up on Michael’s university course.
Also, Fraser has landed an exciting new job in London, Lew has found front-end dependency bliss with Bower and Edd is doing some exciting stuff at work too.
We also talk about asset file compression/concatenation and issues we’ve encountered with those too.
So… plenty to discuss, in fact too much to cram in to our usual hour so we will continue the theme next time.
Enjoy folks, and as ever, thanks for listening and for your feedback.
Show Links
Brownfield Software Developments

Codewars

ATM Pin Safety

Pinned Hopes

Composer’s Latest Update

Google Can Now Tell You’re Not a Robot With Just One Click

Are you a robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”

MacGap

Use Docker on a Mac

Git Extras

CSS Stats

Git Minutes - The Git Podcast

Easy Spritesheet CSS with Sprite Cow

Dive Into Everything - Blog post by Eric Bishard on listening to podcasts

Bower

Gulp

DDD in PHP

Yeoman

Angular JS Version 2 - details on the latest updateup
...more
1h 5min
November 20, 201450: The Big Five-Zero
This week we celebrate the 50th episode of the podcast in style, by… not even remembering it is the 50th episode till half way through (whoops).
We start off discussion with our differing views on working from home, web unicorns and running shoes.
Leading on from this, we bring up a couple of news topics that have been making the rounds in the PHP world recently - along with a proposed Unix command-line series that Mick is keen to do.
We then move on to some of the great feedback we have received from you guys this past week, and somehow this leads to Edd rambling on about the Unix philosophy/application composition again.
Finally, we discuss the state of CodeIgniter 3, how Git works under-the-hood and Objective-C/Swift’s memory management model.
P.S. very sorry for the noticeable audio issues throughout the episode, Edd tried his best to fix them - but unfortunately he is no audio ninja.
Show Links
Let’s stop creating alcoholics in PHP

Let’s stop creating alcoholics in PHP - Reddit Thread

Jeffrey Way on Twitter - “I wonder how many developers never go to conferences…”

Sass Bites 46 - Susy Grids - Layout Settings

Sass Bites 47 - Putting Susy Grids to Work

Learning Gulp - Level Up Tuts

Sass Tutorials - Level Up Tuts

Compass Tutorials - Level Up Tuts

Susy Tutorials - Level Up Tuts

Jimmy Burrell on Twitter - “Here I am again…”

Concocted Logic - …and that’s all I have to say about that.

404 Name Not Found Podcast - Danny Weeks Comment

Foundation - The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB

AWS re:Invent 2014

AWS Lambda

CodeIgniter Web Framework

CodeIgniter User Guide - CodeIgniter 3.0-dev User Guide

Symfony 3.0 - The roadmap

Laravel - 4.2 Documentation

CakePHP Podcast

Krakjoe - Musings, ninja ones

Pointers and dynamic memory - Stack vs Heap - YouTube

PHP - Garbage Collection

PHP Master - Better Understanding PHP’s Garbage Collection

AppleProgramming - YouTube

Double Free - OWASP

Automatic Reference Counting - Wikipedia

A practical Git introduction

Directed acyclic graph - Wikipedia

Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform…

The .NET Core is now open-source - Reddit Thread

Mono
...more
56min
November 11, 201449: 404 Name Not Found
This week we have yet another episode with the full podcast crew.
Discussion starts off with the journey down to help Michael in his new house, along with the must buy book ‘Boundaries in Dating’.
We then switch topics onto how Edd is getting on using Swift, followed by the benefits of Semantic Versioning and Promises.
Responsive design then gets a mention - as we look into how the Guardian were able to decrease their responsive payload sizes.
Finally, we finish off with our thoughts on OSX Yosemite, and how you can use tools like Homebrew, Cask and Ninite (for Windows) to ease clean-installs.
Show Links
Boundaries in Dating

Semantic Versioning

Changes to the Swift Standard Library in Xcode 6.1

ksm/SwiftInFlux - GitHub

Smalltalk

Auto Layout Guide

CocoaPods - The Dependency Manager for Objective C

Alamofire/Alamofire - GitHub

You’re Missing the Point of Promises

Promises/A+

JavaScript Promises - In Wicked Detail

mxcl/PromiseKit - GitHub

OAuth 2.0

silverstripe/blog - SilverStripe Add-ons

Solaris Installations

Jeet Grid System - Smart CSS preprocessor grids

guardian/frontend - GitHub

Guardian Developers - Twitter “We made our responsive site the default…”

HTML5 Boilerplate

Built-in Browser Support for Responsive Images

scottjehl/picturefill - GitHub

Mozilla Introduces the First Browser Built For Developers

Browse Happy

Delicious

W3Schools Browser Statistics

Opera

bmatzelle/gow - GitHub

How To Set Up Multiple SSL Certificates on One IP with Nginx on Ubuntu 12.04 - DigitalOcean

How To Set Up Multiple SSL Certificates on One IP with Apache on Ubuntu 12.04 - DigitalOcean

Homebrew - The missing package manager for OS X

Homebrew Cask

Ninite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once

DejaVu

iTerm2 - Mac OS Terminal Replacement
...more
1h 11min
November 05, 201448: I Want You Back
Two weeks in the making, we are finally back with another podcast instalment.
This week we touch upon the Unix philosophy, client drama, and shiny new MacBook Pros.
We then move on to discuss the security concerns that have arisen from the introduction of contactless payment systems.
Leading on from this we talk about the YubiKey and how it can be used to provide two-factor authentication, for services such as LastPass.
Finally, we close with how ‘tombstoning’ your code trumps the dreaded commenting out everytime.
Show Links
A Flaw In Visa’s Contactless Card Lets Anyone Charge It $999,999

Contactless cards fail to recognise foreign currency - Newcastle University

Unix philosophy

gitignore.io

github/gitignore - GitHub

Yubico

LastPass

iPhone, iPad, Mac Buyer’s Guide

David Schnepper - Isn’t That Code Dead?

Arch Linux

Multi-factor authentication

xkcd - Password Strength

Greg Young - The art of destroying software on Vimeo

The Grid
...more
1h 5min
October 15, 201447: Flysystem with Frank de Jonge
This week we are lucky to have Frank de Jonge (of Flysystem fame) on the show.
Discussion starts off with an update on the latest Snapchat security vulnerability, and if there is any real point in the service to begin with.
We then move on to chat about how Frank got into software development and his method for handling freelance work, by way of meeting his own expectations.
This leads on to talk about Flysystem, how the package came about and its’ addition to ‘The League of Extraordinary Packages’.
Finally, we touch upon the PHP community in Amsterdam and the great times had at Laracon Europe this year.
Show Links
Frank de Jonge on Twitter

Frank de Jonge - Freelance Developer

Snapchat Can’t Stop the Parasite Apps That Screw Its Users

thephpleague/flysystem - GitHub

Flysystem - Multiple Filesystems, One API.

The League of Extraordinary Packages

FuelPHP

Laracon 2014 - Amsterdam
...more
1h 8min
October 09, 201446: Paranoid Android
This week we start off the discussion with our bad pronunciation of PHP libraries.
We then move on to highlight the stress of wrapping up freelance projects - with clients constantly requesting changes (mission creep).
Finally, we chat about Google Web Designer and the new Alan Turing movie (The Imitation Game).
Show Links
The Great British Bake Off

Google Web Designer

Trello

How to Create Custom Events in jQuery

Creating and triggering events

PHP - ImageMagick

Alan Turing

The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game (Official Trailer)

Turing test

Sam Fleming
...more
35min
October 01, 201445: University Life with Sachin Ishmael
This week we are lucky to have Sachin Ishmael on the show, who is currently on a work-placement year at ExtraDigital - studying for a BSc ‘Multimedia Technology and Design’ at the University of Kent.
Discussion starts off with how much Edd enjoyed his first conference experience (SymfonyLive London), followed by Michael’s decision to lean towards using Data URIs instead of sprites (reducing HTTP requests).
We then move on to chat with Sachin about what it is like to be a student in 2014, and his reasoning behind going to University, inspite of the hefty fees.
This leads us to reminisce on our own University experiences and the reasons behind choosing the degree’s we did.
Finally, we touch upon what drew him to multimedia, and how throughout the course he has surprisingly started to enjoy web development.
Show Links
Sachin Ishmael - LinkedIn

Sachin Ishmael - Portfolio

SymfonyLive London 2014

Episode 7.5 - The Short One in London - That Podcast with Beau and Dave

PHP-RFC - isset_ternary

The Shellshock Bug In About Four Minutes - YouTube

Shellshock - BASH Vulnerability Tester

Shellshock - How does it actually work

How to Protect your Server Against the Shellshock Bash Vulnerability

ExtraDigital

University of Kent

SQL Server - Stored Procedures

SpritePad - The easiest way to create your CSS sprites

CSS Tricks - Data URIs

Animation music - YouTube

Flash vs HTML

Marvel - Free mobile and web prototyping for designers

Flash Player with Google Chrome

3ds Max - Autodesk
...more
1h 26min

FAQs about Three Devs and a Maybe:

How many episodes does Three Devs and a Maybe have?

The podcast currently has 164 episodes available.