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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The podcast currently has 164 episodes available.

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July 16, 201434: Delving into CakePHP with James Watts
This week we are very lucky to have James Watts, a core member of the CakePHP project on the show.
Initially starting off with his journey into programming, we move on to talk about the differences we find between junior and senior developers.
We then touch upon his previous start-up experience and how that resulted in him thinking more about the product as a whole.
CakePHP has been around for almost 10 years now, we discuss how he got into the project - along with the frameworks key goals.
We then move on to highlight some of the key differences/features you will find in the next major release (3.0).
Finally, we discuss his upcoming book, and his experiences with organising a large open-source community event.
Show Links
James Watts on Twitter

CakePHP

CakeFest - The annual CakePHP conference

CakeDC - Cake Development Corporation

CakePHP Cookbook

Cake Software Foundation

QBasic

jameswatts/cake-toolkit - GitHub

jameswatts/cake-markup-language - GitHub

CakeDC - Git Workflow

nano JavaScript framework - Rapidly deploy UI for web applications

XHTTP - Extended Hypertext Transfer Protocol

DocML - Extensible Documentation Mark-up Language

jsphp - PHP 5 pseudo-implementation of JavaScript

Qonsola - Command the web

CakePHP Community 2013 - The Bakery: Everything CakePHP

Interview with James Watts from CakePHP - NuBlue

CakeDC - The annual CakePHP conference

CakePHP Community Keynote - James Watts - YouTube

CakePHP Core Interviews - Christian Winther - YouTube

Patterns in your pastry - James Watts - YouTube

Core Panel Q&A - YouTube
...more
1h 7min
July 09, 201433: Laravel, Forge and Homestead with Taylor Otwell
This week we are very lucky to have the creator of Laravel, Taylor Otwell on the show.
Starting off with his journey into the world of programming (through .NET), we move on to discuss how Laravel came to being.
We then touch upon our experiences experimenting with different programming stacks, and what features of C# he would like to see introduced into PHP.
Finally, we ask Taylor what resources he would recommend to someone just starting out in the industry.
Show Links
Laravel

Taylor Otwell on Twitter

Laracasts

ASP.NET

C Sharp

Snappy

FuelPHP

Laravel - Eloquent ORM

Laravel - Homestead

Laravel.io

Laravel.io Podcast

Ionic

PhoneGap

Laravel Forge

LaraJobs
...more
1h
July 01, 201432: Designing for the Web with Kris Jeary
This week we are lucky to have Kris Jeary on the show to discuss all things design.
Starting off with how he got introduced to the world of web design, we move on to discuss the process he uses to create websites.
We then touch upon where he gets inspiration from, and how the emergence of responsive and SPA ideologies has changed the way we think about the web.
Finally, we wrap up the show with some good advice to anyone looking into getting into web design.
Show Links
Squiders

Squiders (kris_jeary) - Twitter

Cron Expression Parsing in PHP

CodeKit

Kraken Image Optimizer

Pingdom - Website Speed Test

Modern.IE

Genymotion

Better Responsive Images With the picture Element

Bootstrap

ZURB Foundation

CSS Reset

What is the difference between Normalize.css and Reset CSS?

Akita - IT Support Kent and London
...more
1h 12min
June 25, 201431: Laravel, Code Bright and PHPandas with Dayle Rees
This episode we are very lucky to be joined by Dayle Rees, to discuss all things PHP, Laravel and Colour Schemes.
Starting off conversation with how he got into PHP, we move on to his initial introduction to the Laravel framework - and his involvement during the development of versions 3 and 4.
From there we touch upon his very popular text-editor colour schemes project, and how the Code Happy/Bright books came about.
Finally, we discuss his new book ‘PHPandas’ which is currently being written, targeted at absolute beginners to software development.
Show Links
Dayle Rees

Code Bright

PHPandas

daylerees/colour-schemes

Colour Scheme Previews

ParkatmyHouse

ParkatmyHouse - Jobs

Laravel

Swift Programming Language

why the lucky stiff

Three British rowers airlifted to safety after boat starts sinking - Mirror Online

Tunbridge Wells rower in Pacific rescue - Kent and Sussex Courier

Team Pacific Rowers

What is the purpose of a callback and how to implement one

Tutorial on Dependency Injection and Lazy Initialisation using Pimple

GitHub Explore
...more
1h 16min
June 18, 201430: Introduction to Software Testing
In this episode we introduce the very important topic of software testing.
Starting off with why you should consider the automated testing route, we move on to discuss the different types of testing available.
Some of the topics discussed include Quality Assurance, TDD/BDD, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing and Acceptance Testing.
Show Links
JavaScript - The Good Parts

Crockford on JavaScript

.NET Rocks - The Better Parts with Doug Crockford

Coding Blocks - Design Patterns Part 1

The David Connelly Show - Web Development Words of Wisdom

Michael Budd - Web Developer

The Loosely Coupled Podcast

Basecamp

Traq.io

PHPUnit

JUnit

Hamcrest PHP

Composer

Selenium

Codeception

Team Pacific Rowers
...more
1h 5min
June 15, 201429: Introduction to GNU/Linux and Distributions with Paul Bowden
This episode we are joined by Paul Bowden to talk all things Linux.
We start of with the Linux vs. GNU/Linux vs. GNU/Linux/X debate, and layout what an Linux Operating System actually is composed of.
With this foundation in place we move on to discuss the different types of distributions available, along with a host of Window Managers and Desktop Environments.
Finally, we wrap up the show with some good advice to budding Linux converts, along with a brief detour into two popular ‘hardcore’ distributions (Gentoo and Arch).
Show Links
pbowden.me

deviantART

The UNIX Operating System - YouTube

Unix Philosophy

Richard Stallman

The GNU Operating System

GNU Hurd

Minix3

The Linux Kernel Archives

awesome window manager

Window Managers for X

TWM

GNOME

Xfce Desktop Environment

KDE

Unity

Linux Mint

Ubuntu

openSUSE

Knoppix Linux Boot CD

BusyBox

Jolla

Chromium

Wine - Run Windows applications on Linux

XBMC

Drobo

Les RPM de Remi

Dotdeb - The extra repository for Debian servers

Gentoo Linux

Arch Linux
...more
1h 10min
June 11, 201428: The PHP-FIG/RFC, CodeIgniter 3 and PyroCMS with Phil Sturgeon
This week we are lucky to have the one n’ only Phil Sturgeon on the show.
Starting off conversation with how he got into programming, we move on to his time using and contributing to the CodeIngiter and FuelPHP projects.
This leads us on to discuss the current status of CodeIgniter 3.0 and his experiences with porting PyroCMS to Laravel.
Among other things we then touch upon the ‘Wordpress positive feedback loop’, the PHP-FIG (Framework Interop Group) and the PHP-RFC (Request for Comments) process.
We wrap up the show with some sound and interesting advice to any budding/new developer.
Show Links
Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon on Twitter

PHP Town Hall

PyroCMS

Made In Production - PHP T-Shirts

27 People Who Have Better Job Titles Than You

CSS - Are floats bad? What should be used in its place - Stack Overflow

CodeIgniter

PHP-FIG - PHP Framework Interop Group

PHP - The Right Way

PostNuke

phpBB

FuelPHP

Drupal

WordPress

Methods on primitive types in PHP

Phil Sturgeon - PHP 6 - Pissing in the Wind

Treehouse

PHPBridge

Codecademy

Kent Web Meetup (Maidstone, England)
...more
1h 3min
June 04, 201427: Ramble On
In this weeks show we decided to have a good ramble about a couple of topics that have cropped us this week.
Ranging from freelance experiences, cheese-based Lorem Ipsum text, and famous Albert Einstein quotes.
By the end we start to discuss our personal software deployment strategies, briefly touching on Docker, which will be the topic of next weeks show.
Show Links
Cheese Ipsum

Docker - the Linux container engine

Traq.io

Fontello - icon fonts generator

Cloud9 IDE

A look at traits in PHP

Android App Debugging - Tuts+ Code Tutorial

TinyMCE

JetBrains PhpStorm

MailChimp
...more
1h 4min
May 28, 201426: PHP Internals, pthreads and PHPDBG with Joe Watkins
This week we are very lucky to have Joe Watkins from pthreads and PHPDBG fame on the podcast.
Starting off discussion with the ‘PHP Next Generation’ drama, we move on to wrap-up our thoughts on the ‘Is TDD dead’ set of Google Hangouts.
The topic then shifts onto our guest and how he got into programming and PHP - with the creation of pthreads and PHPDBG projects discussed.
Finally, we finish off the podcast with the regular quiz.
Show Links
PHP Next Generation

Discourse

Fluid - Turn Your Favorite Web Apps into Real Mac Apps.

Fast request routing using regular expressions

Functional Library - Null

Photobox - CSS3 jQuery image gallery

PHP RFC - arrayof

PHP RFC - returntypehinting

pthreads - Share Nothing, Do Everything

phpdbg - php debugger

krakjoe (Joe Watkins) - GitHub

DatingVIP - GitHub

Neural Networks and Applications Course

Intro to Neural Networks - YouTube

Gnu takes life into its own hands by chasing away cheetah
...more
1h 47min
May 21, 201425: virtPHP with Jacques Woodcock and Ben Ramsey
This week we are very lucky to have Jacques Woodcock and Ben Ramsey from the virtPHP project on the podcast.
Similar in nature to Python’s ‘virtualenv’, virtPHP is a tool for creating and managing multiple isolated PHP environments on a single machine.
Currently command-line support on *nix based-systems is complete, however, during the show we touch on the challenges in-regard to SAPI support.
We then move on to discuss the interesting paths each took to get into development, followed up finally with the weekly quiz.
Show Links
Jacques Woodcock (jacques_thekit) on Twitter

Ben Ramsey

Ben Ramsey (ramsey) on Twitter

Is TDD dead? - YouTube

Is TDD dead? [Part II] - YouTube

Is TDD dead? [Part III] - YouTube

Team Pacific Rowers

Team Pacific Rowers (PacificRowers) on Twitter

php[tek] 2014 conference

php[architect] - Magazine, Training, Books, Conferences

Contributing to PHP Core - Ben Ramsey

Exercism Redesign

VIM Adventures

Nomad PHP

Nashville Hot Chicken

PHP: array_column - Manual

HHVM

HippyVM

#121: Dart with Lars Bak and Seth Ladd from Google - The Changelog

PHPNG (next generation)

PHP: Quality Assurance

textAngular :: Lightweight Angular.js, Javascript Wysiwyg/Text-Editor

How To Make Your Own Website - Best Website Builder - Strikingly

PHP: The Right Way

PuPHPet - Online GUI configurator for Puppet & Vagrant

ramsey/vagrant-php-src-dev - GitHub

virtPHP

phpdbg - php debugger

Top 5 most popular PHP Framework in 2014
...more
1h 34min

FAQs about Three Devs and a Maybe:

How many episodes does Three Devs and a Maybe have?

The podcast currently has 164 episodes available.