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Hosel RocketsThe trip to PinehurstIn this episode of the Hossel Rockets podcast, hosts Ben Edmunds and Eric Barnes recount their recent golf trip to Pinehurst, sharing experiences from various courses, including Tobacco Road, Pinehurst Number Two, Number Four, Number Ten, and Number Eight. They discuss the challenges of each course, memorable moments, and the camaraderie of golfing with friends. 2024-11-301h 02

OverthinkrBen Edmunds of Breakside Brewery & Zak Schroerlucke of Crosby HopsLive from Vice Beer in Vancouver, Washington, with your host, Michael Perozzo. We're talking West Coast IPAs and fresh hops with Zak Schroerlucke from Crosby Hops and Ben Edmunds from Breakside Brewery. We're gonna learn about the Best of Black IPA Awards, coming soon to a city near you, soon!Featuring:@breaksidebrews@crosbyhops@greatamericanbeerfestival@washingtonbeerThis episode of Overthinkr is:Engineered & Edited by Xac DentonMixed by Sean BurkeDirected & Hosted by Michael PerozzoProduced by ZZeppelin📺 Tune in to the live show at...2024-08-161h 00

PHP Town HallEpisode 82: Another UUID bites the dust.Ben and Matt are joined by Ben Ramsey to talk about what it like being in charge of PHP 8.1, his new gig at Skillshare and we ponder the question: do all good uuids go to heaven? Links: Ben Ramsey on Twitter Ben’s UUID Library PHP Release Process Ben’s PHP Library starter kit Rand’s Leadership Slack 2021-08-011h 12

PHP Town HallEpisode 81: The Book of PsalmMatt and Ben are joined by PsalmPHP author and maintainer Matthew Brown to talk about static analysis, open source maintanence, how he and Ondrej Mirtes made a nice contribution to the PHP Coore and how to get Matthew out to more conferences so people can buy him the beers he so rightfully deserves. Show Notes: Psalm Matthew on Twitter 2021-06-0953 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 80: Belles Of The BallMatt and Ben are joined by the founder of Larabelles community Zuzana Kunckova to talk about why communities are so crucial to developer growth, what it takes to start a comnmunity and why Zuzana started Larabelles. We then dive into how she got her start as a developer, where her career has taken her and what is gonna happen with conferences after this whole covid thing is over. Show Notes: LarabellesPHP Zuzana on Twitter 2021-03-2147 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 79: Fell In Love With A Tree: The Phil Sturgeon StoryBen and Matt sit down to talk to Phil Sturgeon… yes that Phil Sturgeon for their once every 2 year check in with the former host of this very podcast. They talk about what it’s like to bikepack across Europe during working hours, how Phil knew what issues needed to be addressed immediately and which he could push off to later and then they talk about his current project which involves APIs and trees. Links: https://protect.earth - Trees foundation Phil is involved with https://twitter.com/philsturgeon - Phil’s place on the intern...2021-03-091h 01

PHP Town HallEpisode 78: Into The WoodchipperMatt and Ben are joined by Chris Fidao (who watched with horror as Matt butchered his last name). The conversation takes a deep dive into how Chris and Dave Hemphill built ChipperCI include the why, the how and what were some of the fun challenges to building a CI service. We talked briefly about how Chris found good use cases for Golang, but Chris still loves PHP. Links: https://twitter.com/fideloper - Chris Fidao on Twitter https://twitter.com/davidhemphill - David Hemphill on Twitter https://chipperci.com https://serversforhackers.com 2020-11-1153 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 77: Lets be FrankMatt and Ben are joined by the League of Extraordinary Packages chief benevolent dictator for life Frank De Jonge (@frankdejonge. Its pronounced “de-yong”, not like how Matt pronounced it. He is sorry). We talk about Frank’s contributions to the League, and how it makes him feel to have a package download count in the 8 digits. Frank also talks about his work on Eventsauce (eventsauce.io) an event driven framework that integrates well into most PHP projects.2020-09-0249 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 75: Battle of the FrameworksMatt and Ben are joined by Marcus Battle to talk about his career path from being a data nerd at WebDev Studios to being a content creator and curator at Twilio. We talk about how much work is involved being a total grammar junky, and does Marcus get early access to things like the supposed Twilio Pigeon API. We also talk about the coveted Twilio swag from back in the days where we were allowed to go to conferences. Then we nerd out about music for a minute. Show Notes: Twilio PHP SDK 2020-06-301h 01

PHP Town HallEpisode 74: Composer Self UpdateMatt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Jordi Bggiano and Nils Adermann to celebrate Composer finally figuring out how to self invoke its own composer self-upgrade command. We discuss the origins of the project, how they deal with the fame they have found, how they run their business and OSS project and how people who like the project can help give back! Show Notes: Packagist/Composer Blog 2020-04-2944 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 73: The League of Extraordinary FIGMatt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Woody Gilk. We talk about what its like to birth a framework, and then mercilessly kill it. We also talk about how Woody got involved with the League of Extraordinary Packages and how someone can get involved with the PHP FIG.2020-03-0344 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 72: 200 OK BoomerMatt Trask and Ben Edmunds sit down for a general catch up episode discussing what’s new with them in the past year or so. Jobs, moves, relationships, and Matt’s developing delusion that he actually enjoys impossible burgers.2020-02-0256 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 71: Forging Happy DevelopersMatt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by James Brooks to discuss what it’s like working for Laravel, his new podcast HappyDev, and mental health for software developers. Links Laravel Forge HappyDev 2020-01-1437 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 68: Behind the FacadeMatt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Taylor Otwell to discuss what’s new with Laravel, the business side of things, and what it’s like organizing a huge conference. Links Laravel Forge Vapor Ignition 2019-09-051h 04

PHP Town HallEpisode 67: Zend Framework 3.LaminasMatt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Adam Culp to discuss the recent changes with Zend (the company), Zend (the framework), and the transition from Zend Framework to Laminas Framework. Links Laminas Nexmo Releated Stuff Beachcasts Video on Hypermedia Video on automating Hypermedia 2019-07-0955 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 66: Getting Jitty Wit ItMatt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Joe Watkins to discuss what’s new with PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0.2019-05-1645 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 65: Live from Longhorn PHP 2019Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by a panel of speakers from Longhorn PHP to discuss the conference, PHP internals, and questions from the attendees. Our amazing panel guests this episode are: Alena Holligan Sammy K Powers Taylor Barnett Margaret Staples Chris Holland Kat Zień 2019-05-041h 00

PHP Town HallEpisode 63: Dollar Bills Yall - Part 2Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Jason McCreary to discuss further discuss investing and trading. This episode gets a bit more in the weeds on investing and trading for those interested, discussing everything from 401k to index funds to speculation. We also briefly cover Financial Independence / Retire Early (FIRE) and how developers are well positioned to work towards financial independence. Links RobinHood FireCalc MrMoneyMustache FIRE Math 2019-04-091h 13

PHP Town HallEpisode 62: All the HostsMatt Trask, Ben Edmunds, and Amanda Folson are joined by our deported former co-host Phil Sturgeon. There’s not much of an agenda to this episode. We all catch up on what’s new with Phil and we fill him in on what’s new with PHP.2019-02-191h 12

PHP Town HallEpisode 61: Dollar Bills Yall - Part 1Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Jason McCreary and Anthony Fox to discuss budgeting and personal finance for developers. This episode takes a high level view and focuses on how new developers can make good decisions and avoid common pitfalls that come along with that first “developer money” paycheck. We’ll be back for part 2 shortly. Links You Need a Budget YNAB Acorns Vanguard MrMoneyMustache CreditKarma Debitize app Principles - Ray Dalio 2019-01-171h 02

PHP Town HallEpisode 60: Education, Bootcamps, and the Cool FactorMatt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Peggy Fisher and Ryan Tablada to discuss the general state of computer science education, developer bootcamps, landing that first job, and why PHP isn’t ususally taught to new developers.2018-12-101h 02

PHP Town HallEpisode 59: Startup Lyfe - Part 2Amanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Mike Wales, Chris Boden, and Daniel Cousineau once again, to finish our discussion about working at and founding startups. This is part two of two.2018-10-241h 37

PHP Town HallEpisode 58: Startup Lyfe - Part 1Amanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Mike Wales, Chris Boden, and Daniel Cousineau to discuss working at and founding startups. This is part one of two. Part two is coming in a few weeks.2018-10-091h 23

PHP Town HallEpisode 57: APIs, Conferences, API Conferences, and Horrible FlightsMatt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Tessa Mero to discuss their conference organizing experience and the conferences they are putting on in the coming months. Links Southeast PHP Conference API Strat Conference API City Conference Southeast PHP Poster 2018-08-061h 05

PHP Town HallEpisode 56: GraphQL is better than RESTAmanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Phil Sturgeon to discuss what’s new in the world of API development. Make sure to check out his new book Talking To Other People’s APIs. Sponsor We’re sponsored this episode by the Southeast PHP Conference: Southeast PHP Community Conference in Nashville, TN is happening August 16th and 17th right in downtown Nashville. Our CfP opens February 15th with a theme around the modern PHP toolbox. Come hang out with us, listen to awesome speakers talk about a wide variety of topics...2018-01-1255 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 55: The Hardest Problem in SoftwareAmanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Mike Wales and Michael Lopp to discuss the hardest problem in software - people. Also make sure to check out the books recommended during this episode: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High Nine Minutes on Monday: The Quick and Easy Way to Go From Manager to Leader Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager 2017-11-151h 14

PHP Town HallEpisode 54: Conferences and StuffAmanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Daniel Cousineau, Tracy Hinds, Ian Littman, and Matt Trask to discuss the good, bad, and ugly of conference organizing. Make sure to check out the kickstarter for the Longhorn PHP Conference.2017-08-221h 15

PHP Town HallEpisode 53: Developer Relations, Travel, and Bedbugs with Jessica RoseAmanda Folson and Ben Edmunds are joined by Jessica Rose to discuss developer relations, travel, and bedbugs.2017-04-131h 34

PHP Town HallEpisode 52: What Do We Do Now?Amanda Folson officially takes the co-host reins! We ease you in to the transition by Ben grilling… ahem… interviewing Amanda a bit so you can get to know her better.2017-01-2044 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 51: Good RiddanceIn this episode Ben and Phil discuss what’s new in their pathetic little lives, the state of the PHP-FIG, and bid an ecstatic.. ahem.. sad farewell to Phil as he departs the podcast. Starting with Episode 51 Amanda Folson will be taking over as co-host. Ben is staying so don’t worry, we know he’s your favorite. Phil, Thanks for 51 fucking fantastic episodes, 5 years of podcasting together, way too much booze, and a lot of fun.2017-01-0843 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 50: Low down on PSR-15An all star cast this episode, as Ben and Phil are joined by regular guest Anthony Ferrara - thinker of good ideas and long-time part-time side-line contributor to the PHP-FIG, Woody Gilk - one-speed rider & BDFL of Kohana, and Beau Simensen - author of a bunch of stuff including StackPHP. Here we’re talking about some awesome stuff the PHP-FIG is working on: PSR-15 (HTTP Middleware). This PSR is in Draft mode, and is potentially not as well known about as some others. There was a bit of a cuffufle getting it started as before it had ev...2016-06-2856 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 47: SunshinePHP Town Stack Hall RadioAnother SunshinePHP, and another rotating panel of excellent guests talking about stuff like podcasting, making a bit of money on the side from projects like books and whatnot, and we get some folks on to cover the FIG Secretary positions, which will hopefully help the FIG solve their identity problems. Oh and Ben Marks was definitely talking about Magento again.2016-02-071h 03

PHP Town HallEpisode 46: Christmas TheraphpyBen and Phil have a little catch-up to try and get things back on track after a little 2015 lag. Basically this episode is just Sober Phil having a massive vent about how daft some people are on the Internet. For some reason he accidentally read some /r/lolphp and got into an argument about how they think that PHP 7 is purely a cosmetic change. This was a good excuse to re-emphisize what an awesome set of fundamental changes PHP 7 really was. Ben and Phil then discuss the FIGs identity crisis before Phil goes off on...2015-12-281h 10

PHP Town HallEpisode 45: Live from PNWPHPLive from PNWPHP ‘15, Ben and Phil are joined by guests Ben Marks, Yitzchok Willroth and later we are joined by returning guest Sara Golemon who popped in to talk about HHVM/Hack while Phil played waiter for the rest of the episode. Ben talks about Magento and some of his conference traveling madness, as does Yitz, who got trapped in a hotel for a whole weekend due to some interesting combination of Jewish holidays and an argument over the interational date line in New Zealand. Phil also tells us all about his NZ speeding ticket, mowing down po...2015-09-1250 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 42: Paul and VanceAfter a little hiatus Phil and Ben back at it, joined this time by Paul Dragoonis and Vance Lucas. Paul does some fairly call stuff, manages the PPI framework and contributes to building the actual PHP.net website, the poor sod. Paul is also the winner in the “PHP developers from the UK who are hard to understand” contest two years running, only beating Phil to the title due to being slightly better at handling his booze. Vance works at NetSuite and has open-sourced a bunch of code things, most notably phpdotenv and frisby. We...2015-05-231h 04

PHP Town HallEpisode 39: Hi Josh!Phil and Ben catch up with Josh Lockhart who has been on the show a few times before. Josh is involved in some great projects and interested in some new tools, which all kinda wind in together. PHP, FIG, League, etc. Josh joined the FIG PSR-7 which is gonna be used in Slim 3 New Stuff in Slim PHP 3.0 The new league/uploads project - more info on the League mailing list We touch on a few topics, and really this one is just a fun fluid chat with a really relaxed guest.2015-03-1254 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 37: Sunshine Round-Hall? Town-Table?We all know that SunshinePHP is one of the PHP communities finest conferences. It attends an amazing group of people, wonderful speakers and Rasmus usually pops in for a drive-by-keynote. Every conference Phil or Ben attend has some vague promise of “yeah we’ll probably try and do a recording there or something,” but this SunshinePHP we actually did it, all thanks to the wonderful Sammy K off of PHP Roundtable. The topic this time around was that of APIs, and we were joined by an all star panel: Sara Golemon Josh Lockart Eryn O’Neil...2015-02-081h 13

PHP Town HallEpisode 33: CakePHP, Monga and RFCsThis episode we’re joined by two two top CakePHPers Jose Diaz-Gonzalez and Bryan Crowe. Ben is AWOL, Phil is insanely jet-lagged and has no idea what he is talking about. Our awesome guests try their best to carry Phil through the show, where we discuss exciting new stuff happening with CakePHP, and what we think of a few current RFCs being discussed in PHP land. We also talk a bit about Monga, a League package which Bryan has now assumed the role of project lead. It took a while to get this on...2014-11-1951 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 32: Ben and Phil Catch UpThis week Ben and Phil take some time to catch up on each others lives and let you listen in. Ben doesn’t remember how to code. Phil is leaving PHP for Rails. They’re both moving again. Since we don’t have any cool tools to recommend this week you should buy our books to support the podcast: Building Secure PHP Apps - Ben Edmunds Build APIs You Won’t Hate - Phil Sturgeon PHP APIs and Security Bundle - Bundle of both books together 2014-11-041h 02

PHP Town HallEpisode 31: The One about Hot DogsThis week Ben and Phil are joined last minute by repeat guests Kayla Daniels and Matt Frost. We talk waaaaay too much about hotdogs, Phil’s fun-employment, cocaine, and what’s new in PHP-land. The recommended cool stuff of the episode is: Dossier - super secret stealth mode project for managing talk abstracts No Capes - Live Interviews with prominent speakers, community members and package developers in the PHP Community WurstCon - The wurst conference in the US of A SideSwell - beautiful side project execution tool 2014-10-1747 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 30: Specs, Implementations, and New Engines OH MY!This week Ben and Phil are joined by core PHP developer extraordinaires Andrea Faulds and Levi Morrison. We discuss the new PHP engine spec, various RFCs, and all things internals. Also PHP 6 is officially dead, let’s have a moment of silence.2014-08-261h 14

PHP Town HallEpisode 29: Dont Mention PHP 6 v PHP 7This week Ben and Phil are joined by long distance target shooter Paul M. Jones and the handsome man that is Daniel Lowrey, to talk about a whole bunch of PHP relating things. Paul has recently been talking a lot about “Action Domain Responder” which is billed as a more representative replacement of the often mis-used “Model View Controller” architecture. Luckily he does a good job of ELI5 so we don’t get too lost, and we talk a bit about how ADR helps with putting content negotiation in a logical place. Daniel then goes on to talk...2014-07-301h 19

PHP Town HallEpisode 28: Loosley Coupled MashupIn this episode, Ben and Phil join forces with Loosely Coupled to talk about Open Source, burn out and briefly discuss their favorite open source projects. Jeff was out of action for a lot of it due to unexpected wifi troubles (in San Francisco of all places) so he sadly did not get to take part as much as he would have liked. Questions this time around: How do you deal nicely with someone who’s too reliant on you for solving problems and is too quick to ask you rather than figure it out th...2014-07-101h 54

PHP Town HallEpisode 25: Girls Aren't Any DifferentTalking about feminism in tech is always difficult. This episode was quite a heated discussion with Kayla Daniels and Jessica D’Amico discussing their opinions about women-orientated groups such as PHPWomen and Girls Who Code. Kayla wrote an excellent article titled Not a shiny unicorn, in which she made several points. “Somehow, [being female] means I am some kind of oddity. I’ve been met with skepticism, mistrust, and probably the most insulting reaction; complete shock and awe.” “If I’m offered something, I want it to be because of my accomplishments, and not my sex.” “Bottom line: Gir...2014-05-2854 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 24: But is it Web Scale?This week Ben Edmunds calls in from Portland and Phil Sturgeon calls in from THE FUTURE. They are joined by Steve Corona to discuss Scaling PHP. Most of this conversation centers around Phil and Ben’s horrible facial hair with a few questions thrown Steve’s way to educate us on getting the most out of your LAMP stack. The main takeaways are to stop using Apache and to start using Postgres. Go buy Steve’s book Scaling PHP if you want to be Web Scale.2014-05-141h 35

PHP Town HallEpisode 23: VirtPHP - Managing your Herd of ElePHPantsThis week Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon are joined by Jacques Woodcock and Jordan Kasper to discuss virtPHP. virtPHP is a tool for managing multiple environments on your development machine. It is similar to Python’s virtualenv or Ruby’s rbenv, but for PHP. Upcoming Conferences Phil will be speaking at PHP South Africa in April. Ben has no idea what he will attend this year. Jacques will likely be speaking at True North PHP later this year. Jordan will be speaking at jQuery UK in May and...2014-04-101h 19

PHP Town HallEpisode 22: The Great Joomla! License Battle of 2014This week Ben Edmunds is joined by new guest David Stanley and recurring guest Don Gilbert to discuss the latest Joomla! framework licensing drama. Phil was too busy having a real world life to join us this week, boo! Don does a great job of articulating why switching the Joomla! Framework to an LGPL license would be best for everyone and just might cure cancer. Ben tries to play devil’s advocate but eventually can’t even maintain the ruse. David talks now and then, mostly about his new found love of the AeroPress. Cool thin...2014-03-261h 06

PHP Town HallEpisode 20: A nice friendly chat about Sculpin, Guzzle and PSR-7Trying out a slightly more professional format with questions, Phil manages to avoid talking over everyone. Winner! This show has a history of talking about FIG stuff as it is hard to avoid. The group is working on so much cool stuff and prominent figures of the community are involved. We got two more prominent figures, who also happen to be involved with FIG stuff: Beau Simensen lead developer of Sculpin and Michael Dowling lead developer of the wonderful HTTP library Guzzle, who also works at AWS on their PHP SDK. We discussed each of...2014-03-061h 03

PHP Town HallEpisode 14: Ship Like a Candian, Eh?This episode Ben and Phil are joined by Lee Tengum, who has sold more apps than Phil and Ben have even thought of. He founded Pancake Payments which has been featured in Inc. Magazine and is doing very well in the very crowded sector of invoice, time-tracking and basic project management. Lee also works as a freelance developer for local companies in the “city” of Cranbrook, BC, Canadia. We got Lee on to share some of his success stories of building small, simple, useful products that do not try to be the next Facebook but make good mone...2013-10-241h 05

PHP Town HallEpisode 13: PHP Internals, Service-orientated Architecture and Language WarsSome episodes of this show are brought to you after more beers than others. This is one of those episodes where its more, so if you don’t like swearing and listening to a slightly confused Bristolian ramble about points he occasionally forgets then you might want to skip this one. Regardless Ben, Zack K. and Phil discuss the difference between PHP’s organisational structure and lack of BDFL with that of Rails, or Linux. We then discuss service-orientated architecture a little and move onto how you should not box yourself into a single programming language - on y...2013-10-1449 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 12: Awesome RFCs and YoloSilex and PHP contributor Igor Wiedler joins Ben and Phil to talk about his recently accepted RFC: Importing namespaced functions along with a bunch of other super-nerdy things that he has been working on. PHP: a fractal of bad design - The trollol bible PHP RFC: Variadics PHP RFC: Argument Unpacking Mozilla’s JavaScript Spread Operator Yolo StackPHP 2013-09-111h 04

PHP Town HallEpisode 9: Is OAuth 2 The Devil?Alex Bilbie and Zackary Blank come on the show to talk about OAuth 2, which has been getting a lot of flamey bad press over the last year or two after the original author quit the project. Why these guys? Well, Alex until recently was working at the University of Lincoln where they did a whole bunch of OAuth 2 work as auth for various API projects at the university. During this time he created the fully spec compliant CodeIgniter OAuth 2.0 Server, which was later replaced with a new generic PHP version for “The League of Extraordinary Packages”. It’s safe...2013-07-1054 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 8: Use your time machine to go to PeersConf yesterdayIn this episode Ben and Phil talk to the super-talented conference organiser Jessica D’Amico, joined by avid conference goer and PHP rockstar Matt Frost. We all gab a bunch about conferences in general, specifically LaraCon, PeersConf and php|tek. We fucked up and didn’t get this episode out soon enough to actually get her any sales for her latest conferences PeersConf (Phil is at PeersConf right now), but you should definitely follow Jess to see what conferences she puts on in the future, they’re always great.2013-06-2746 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 7: Web Sockets Are FastChris Boden joins us to talk about a Ratchet and React. The conversation is basically Ben and Phil asking a bunch of questions about how Ratchet works, pretending we know what is going on while Chris uses lots of words like “concurrency” and “non-blocking”. We decide that PHP is web-scale, event-driven programming is not just for NodeJS hipsters, we all take the “Are You a Brogrammer” test and Michael Wales crashes the show half way through like a ninja. React: Promise Are You a Brogrammer Ubiquity Servers Feedly Slim Framework Deployd 2013-05-1844 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 6: PSR-X and the Mexican StandoffPHP-FIG member Paul M. Jones and PHP contributor Anthony Ferrera come on the podcast with Ben, Phil and regular guest Zack Kitzmiller to discuss the new Package Orientated Autoloader Proposal (a.k.a PSR-X), and whether or not PSR’s should ever be amended. Paul explains why the new PSR-X is a handy idea for those who are already PSR-0 users, or even those that aren’t, Zack flips a shit and gets bored of talking about standards wishing everyone could just use Python and their awesome PEP-8, we convince Paul to try swearing for once and we a...2013-04-191h 15

PHP Town HallEpisode 5: PHPness Gate, Sexism and Mental IllnessThis was a tricky episode where we talk about some big genuine issues that affect PHP developers around the world, and we talked a lot about a t-shirt. After Chris Hartjes cheated on his /dev/hell podcast by joining us in Episode 3, Chris' partner in crime Ed "Funkatron" Finkler decided to get revenge and come on the show. Our other guest Miko Federmann is a brilliant PHP and C developer who is a friend of Phil and Ben. She joins us on the show to discuss the recent hullabaloo known as "PHPness Gate" and the...2013-03-031h 19

PHP Town HallEpisode 3: ExpressionEngine StackExchangeExpressionEngine Pro Anna Brown and Testing Hero Chris Hartjes join Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon to discuss the recent rumblings in the ExpressionEngine community and the new EE StackExchange site. We talk about Inversion of Control (IoC), what it is, why its useful and how it’s done. We also talk a little bit about how PHP has been (and is continuing) to move towards a post-framework world thanks to independant framework-agnostic components - and of course we talk with Chris about unit-testing. ExpressionEngine StackExchange /dev/hell Postcast The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide To Building Testable PHP...2012-12-2054 min

PHP Town HallEpisode 1: Composer kicks ass, Laravel 4 is coming, and PHP Hosting sucks - guest Taylor OtwellIn the first episode of the PHP Town Hall podcast, Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmunds rant about how awesome Composer is; chat with Taylor Otwell about the upcoming Laravel 4 release; and whine about how horrible PHP PAAS hosting is.2012-10-1147 min