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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September 24, 201444: Guess Who's Back?
With Lewis back for this weeks show we have the first full-house in sometime, this sparks conversation on what he has got upto since his last appearance.
Discussion starts with Fraser’s and Edd’s woes when trying to handle responsive email design - and how the relevant testing is somehow more painful than the dreaded ‘IE’.
We then move on to discuss the latest release of PHPStorm, Swift and how the Clean Coders video series helps to refine our development skills.
Finally, we bring up the topic of task managers and how most of the hosts are split between using Trello and Basecamp.
Show Links
JetBrains PhpStorm

Jenkins Jobs Template for PHP Projects

Skills Matter

Skills Matter - How to Name Things Talk

Functional Programming in PHP

Functional Programming in Swift

Functional Programming in Swift (w/Chris Eidhof) - YouTube

Litmus - Email Testing and Email Marketing Analytics

Lewis Cains on Twitter “list directory sizes…”

Lewis Cains on Twitter “list all files and their sizes in a directory…”

Clean Coders

Clients From Hell

jQuery Autosize

Trello

Basecamp

jQuery CSS Emoticons Plugin

PHP Excel Reader

What are Long-Polling, Websockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE) and Comet? - Stack Overflow
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1h 7min
September 17, 201443: YARP (Yet Another Ramble Podcast)
Being without a guest this episode, gave us the excuse to ramble on about many different topics that have been on our minds for the past couple of weeks.
Starting off with Michael’s experience using WebSockets and Fraser’s fun with setting up a sound Gulp workflow, we move on to discuss the complications rebasing in Git can get you in.
Following this, Edd rambles on about the differences between the ‘Active Record’ and ‘Data Mapper’ object-persistence design patterns - along with an interesting insight he found in-regard to TDD.
Finally, we discuss the Apple keynote from last week and how we are all pretty much sold on the Apple Watch.
Show Links
WebSocket.org

node.js

Ratchet - PHP WebSockets

gulp.js - the streaming build system

Error on “npm install gulp –save-dev” - Fraser Hart

What are Long-Polling, Websockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE) and Comet? - Stack Overflow

New Relic

5 Useful Tips For A Better Commit Message

Git - Contributing to a Project

Git - git-rebase Documentation

It Was Like That When I Got Here: Steps Toward Modernizing a Legacy Codebase

Episode 3: The One with Paul talking about Action-Domain-Responder - That Podcast with Beau and Dave

Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP by pmjones

Ian Cooper: TDD, where did it all go wrong

Mocks, Fakes, Stubs and Dummies

Test Driven Development - Kent Beck

Hexagonal architecture

Active Record vs Data Mapper for Persistence

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler

P of EAA: Unit of Work

Doctrine

SOLID (object-oriented design) - Wikipedia

Who is U2?

PopKey - Animated GIF keyboard.

eddmann/algorithms-and-data-structures - GitHub

The Infinite Jukebox

VisuAlgo - visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

The Basics of Web Workers - HTML5 Rocks

PHP: Possible modifiers in regex patterns

krakjoe/apcu - GitHub

Dotdeb - The extra repository for Debian servers

Les RPM de Remi
...more
1h 3min
September 10, 201442: CSS Preprocessors with Guy Routledge
This week we are lucky to be joined by Guy Routledge to discuss all things CSS Preprocessor.
Starting off with a brief discussion on his journey into developing for the web, we move onto how he gets business working freelance.
Following this we bring up the topic of CSS Preprocessors - what they are, and differences that can be seen in the alternatives available (Sass, Less, Stylus).
Finally we wrap up the show with discussion on BEM, CSS ‘Level 4’ specifications and his experience developing the screencast ‘A to Z CSS’.
Show Links
Guy Routledge - Musings on web development, design and business

Guy Routledge on Twitter

A to Z CSS

General Assembly

Sass - Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets

Less.js

Stylus - expressive, robust, feature-rich CSS preprocessor

CodeKit

Ratchet - PHP WebSockets

panique/php-long-polling - GitHub

Socket.IO

BEM. Block, Element, Modifier
...more
1h 6min
September 02, 201441: Stack and Sculpin with Beau Simensen
This week we are very lucky to have Beau Simensen on the show to discuss all things Stack, Sculpin and podcasting.
We start off the discussion with how (new dad) Michael is getting on, and if knowing how to code helps at all when having a baby.
Fraser on the other hand has had an eventful weekend cycling to France (for fun) and began work on a new project in C#.
Following on from this we touch upon how Beau got into programming, and his progression through Perl to PHP.
We then move on to how Stack and Sculpin came to being, and the problems they are each trying to solve.
Finally we talk about an upcoming Symfony Live event in London that he will be presenting at (on Stack), and Edd will be attending.
Show Links
Beau Simensen - Software Architect

Beau Simensen on Twitter

Dragonfly Development, Inc

That Podcast with Beau and Dave

Stack - HttpKernelInterface based middlewares

Sculpin - PHP Static Site Generator

Tent - the protocol for decentralized communication

Diaspora

PHP-FIG - PHP Framework Interop Group

Bldr Task Runner

h4cc/stack-flysystem - GitHub

HttpKernel (Symfony Components)

HttpKernel middlewares

Value of HttpFoundation

Introducing Stack

Igor Wiedler - Stack: a PHP interface for framework-agnostic code sharing - YouTube

Igor Wiedler - The HttpKernelInterface is a lie - YouTube

Decorating Applications with Stack - Beau Simensen

SymfonyLive - SymfonyLive London 2014
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1h 6min
August 27, 201440: News on PHP 7, and how PHP internally works with Joe Watkins
In this weeks show we are very lucky to have Joe Watkins on again to discuss all things PHP 7.
Starting off with the decisions behind calling the next release 7, we delve into the reasons for 6 being abandoned.
Moving on from this we look into what PHP 7 currently has scheduled to offer, including the PHPNG patch, an AST and maybe Joe’s own Unicode String class.
We then discuss how a PHP script is internally lexed, parsed/compiled and cached, - including how a JIT would speed up certain use-cases.
Finally we touch upon the much requested String type hinting and how a solution similar to Java’s could be implemented with minimal hassle.
Show Links
PHP 6 - experimental/first_unicode_implementation Branch

UString

JIT-Fu

PHP RFC - Name of Next Release of PHP

PHP RFC - Scalar Type Hinting With Casts

PHP RFC - Uniform Variable Syntax

PHP RFC - Abstract Syntax Tree

PHP RFC - Uniform Variable Syntax

PHP RFC - Move the PHPNG branch into master

Methods on Primitive Types in PHP

Last 5.3 release ever available

PHP - Unsupported Branches

PHPNG (Next Generation)

PHPNG Implementation Details

Upgrading PHP extensions from PHP5 to NG

OPcache

Alternative PHP Cache

Lexical analysis

Abstract syntax tree

ReactPHP
...more
1h 9min
August 20, 201439: Introduction to Java and C#
In this weeks pre-recorded show we introduce the Java and C# languages, discussing how the two relate and diverge in design.
Starting off with a brief history on the two languages, we move on to the different setup environments and IDE options available to you.
Leading on from this we touch upon some of the technical differences, such as - Value/Reference Types, Unified Type System, Exception Handling, Type Inference, LINQ and Extension Methods.
Finally, Edd goes on a little ASP.NET tagerent and a brief delve into the crazy world of the ‘java.util’ package.
Show Links
jPlayer - HTML5 Audio and Video

Java

C# Language Specification

.NET

ASP.NET

.NET Rocks Podcast

What is a Unified Type System?

Visual Studio

Type Inference

Jetbrains Resharper

LINQ for Scala Heads

java.util Package

Methods on Primitive Types in PHP

Scala ‘Pimp My Library’ Pattern

C# Extension Methods
...more
1h 17min
August 13, 201438: The First All-Episode Quiz
This week we start our chat off with the myth of just simply ‘reskinning’ a website, along with the dreaded !important in CSS.
Following this, as we love quizzes so much, we decided to dedicate a full show to one.
In this weeks quiz we touch upon many areas of PHP, JavaScript, CSS and random computer/programming history.
We also now have t-shirts on sale, available via the first link in the show-notes (why don’t you treat yourself).
Show Links
Three Devs and a Maybe - Shop

How I moved my websites to Dropbox and GitHub

noraesae/perfect-scrollbar - GitHub

Dan Wahlin - AngularJS Fundamentals in 60-ish Minutes

Front End Web Development Quiz By David Shariff

thephpleague/flysystem - GitHub

Speed in Software Development

Stack - HttpKernelInterface based middlewares

short white bald guy - Avoiding Burnout

Bletchley Park

eddmann/enigma-machine - GitHub
...more
1h 18min
August 06, 201437: Introduction to the Standard PHP Library (SPL)
In this weeks show we are discussing all things SPL (Standard PHP Library), used to solve commonly found problems in an OO-PHP manner.
After a brief tangent on what each cast member uses for placeholder text/images, we touch upon the key reasons for SPL’s development.
Following this we highlight a few of the many data-structures (fixed-array, doubly linked-list) and interfaces (countable) available to you.
Finally, we wrap up the show with the regular quiz, which you’ve probably guessed it, is topically about the Standard PHP Library.
Show Links
Strava - Running and Cycling GPS Tracker

Pixelmator

SPL (Standard PHP Library)

SplDoublyLinkedList - PHP Manual

SplFixedArray - PHP Manual

Countable - PHP Manual

class_uses - PHP Manual

class_implements - PHP Manual

get_class_methods - PHP Manual
...more
1h 8min
July 30, 201436: The First Q&A Show with Justin DeLucia
This week we have good friend of the show Justin DeLucia on to help host our first dedicated Q&A episode.
Not only that, but Fraser is back! along with some crazy adventures that he discusses since his last time on the show.
We have been fortunate to receive many questions throughout the past couple of weeks, and thought it would be good to release the answers as a dedicated show.
Topics discussed include, breaking into the industry, the PDO vs. Mysqli debate, bespoke vs. off-the-shelf CMS debate and what to consider when building a Web API.
Show Links
Sanctuary Creative

Justin DeLucia on Twitter

Team Pacific Rowers

BBC News - Great Pacific Race rowers rescued as boat sinks

Favicon Generator

Snazzy Maps - Free Styles for Google Maps

ZURB Ink - Responsive Email Framework

PutsMail - Mail Test Tool

RedBeanPHP4

Propel

Doctrine Project

PDO - PHP Manual

Mysqli - PHP Manual

iTerm2 - Mac OS Terminal Replacement

Mutual Recursion

Pimple

London Region (LON1) - DigitalOcean

T2, the New General Purpose Instance Type for Amazon EC2

Laravel Forge

A to Z CSS

Build APIs You Won’t Hate by Phil Sturgeon

Bootstrap

SilverStripe
...more
1h 6min
July 23, 201435: Functional Programming with Simon Holywell
This week we are lucky to have Simon Holywell on the show to talk all things Functional Programming.
Initially starting off with a concrete definition of Functional Programming, we move on to a brief history of the paradigm and immutability.
Following this we explain recursion (and tail-recursion), along with closures and higher-order functions.
From this base we are able to then talk about the different languages available to you which cater towards the functional mindset (i.e. Haskell).
We then set our sights on the PHP language and what/wish it had to offer when exploring the functional paradigm.
Finally, we mention his upcoming book, along with experiences presenting at user-group meet-ups.
Show Links
Simon Holywell

Simon Holywell on Twitter

Functional Programming in PHP Book

Functional PHP Book on Twitter

Functional Programming in PHP Slides - DorsetPHP

Mosaic Digital

Pascal

Scala

Functional Programming Principles in Scala - Coursera

Principles of Reactive Programming - Coursera

pthreads

PHP Internals, pthreads and PHPDBG with Joe Watkins

Recursion

Tail Recursion

Haskell

xmonad - Window Manager

awesome - Window Manager

occam-pi

Currying vs. Partial PHP Application

array_column - PHP Manual
...more
42min

FAQs about Three Devs and a Maybe:

How many episodes does Three Devs and a Maybe have?

The podcast currently has 164 episodes available.