Shows
Playing With A Purpose PodcastCoaching Through Conflict with Jess Trask- Season 3, Episode 6Conflict on a team is inevitable—but it doesn’t have to be destructive. Join Dr. Matt Barker for this episode, as he sits down with Freed-Hardeman Head Baseball Coach, Mr. Jess Trask, to explore the art of coaching through conflict and how great coaches can transform tense moments into powerful opportunities for growth. Throughout this episode, we will dive into strategies strategies for addressing disagreements, fostering respect, and keeping the bigger goal in sight.
2025-09-1228 min
Pewter Report PodcastKyle Trask's Best Practice YetIt was another busy practice for the Bucs on Friday morning. Baker Mayfield did not participate so backup quarterback Kyle Trask got to work with the starter and he had his best day to date.
Pewter Report will recap all of the events from it and what was said in the press conferences after. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2025-08-0158 min
Southern Indiana NowEpisode 24 - Jackson County FunIn this episode of Southern Indiana Now, we are spending time in Jackson County, Indiana exploring farm foods, finances, the county fair, and on stage fun!We begin at Stuckwisch Family Farms, in Vallonia, learning about great produce and flowers.Next, we meet Vanessa and Matt, from New Legacy, to learn some financial tips and ideas for your fiscal responsibilities.Then it’s off to the Jackson County Fair, where we prepare for another great year of grandstand fun.Finally, we wrap up with the Jackson County Community Theater, learning about th...
2025-07-1622 min
Mutant Menace12 - X-Men #58-62 - Havok and SauronFULL SWING into the legendary NEAL ADAMS/ROY THOMAS run and Matt and Pat are finally absolutely loving the X-Men. We finally meet Havok in earnest and a vampiric pterodactyl named Sauron.Other topics: Always in our hearts: @canadawolverine. Danger AKA Havok. Pompeii jerk-off guy, Pompeii jerk-off city. More Sentinel bureaucracy. "TRASK'S TREACHERY TRASK'S TREACHERY." Fight the Sun! Mr. Anderson. Bobby's girl friend. “Observe the Monitron!” A rip-off fantasticar. What IS the sound of evil? Don't google Ben Casey. Warren is suck a dick. Beware the icy grip of death. What is 333x worse than a vampire pterodactyl...
2025-06-121h 58
Facility VoicesMaximizing Efficiency: The Benefits of Standardizing ProcessesIn this episode of Facility Voices, Matt Snow, Assistant Vice President of Support Services at Baptist Health System, shares how standardizing processes has transformed their operations and created lasting benefits for their facilities team.From reducing costs and improving compliance to fostering collaboration across departments, Matt provides practical strategies that listeners can apply to streamline operations and optimize resources. He also explains how data-driven approaches have supported better decision-making and long-term success.Whether you’re aiming to boost efficiency or plan for the future, this episode is packed with insights to help your facilities team th...
2024-12-1428 minPewter Report PodcastPewter Pulse: Will The Bucs Turn To Kyle Trask?Will the Bucs turn to quarterback Kyle Trask when – and if – they are out of playoff contention this season? Possibly, says Scott Reynolds in a new Pewter Pulse video. But Reynolds warns that there be some consequences and some possible negative consequences with turning to Trask in this new episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-1307 min
Matt Waldman's RSP CastFeel It or F@#k It 8.21.23: An RSP Cast with Bob Harris and Matt WaldmanA weekly phone conversation between fantasy veterans Bob Harris and Matt Waldman is a quick and dirty run-down of NFL players, units, or teams.
https://youtu.be/LztHnUG_aUQ
Topics
1. Tyjae Spears has legitimate fantasy value this year in re-draft.
2. Baker Mayfield doesn't beat Kyle Trask for the starting job.
3. Feeling at the top of R1: Jefferson-McCaffrey-Ekeler? (Choose 1)
4. Mid-R1: Kupp-HIll-Kelce?
5. R2: Mahomes-Adams-Henry?
6. R3: Stevenson-DeVonta-Andrews-Olave?
7. R4: Cooper-Ridley-Allen?
8. R5: PIerce-SAnders-Dobbins?
9. R5: McLaurin-Moore-Watson-London?
10. R6: Kirk-Aiyuk-Lockett?
11. Bijan R1 - Gibbs R3 - Charbonnet R9 - Spears R14
12. Waller R6 - Engram - R8 - Freirmuth R9 - Kincaid R11
13. Mahomes/Allen/Hurts R2 - Bu...
2023-08-2100 minPewter Report PodcastTrask Improves, But Mayfield Is QB1Following the Week 2 preseason game between the Bucs and Jets at MetLife Stadium, it's apparent that the Bucs have an idea who their starting quarterback is. While Kyle Trask started all of the first half, Baker Mayfield did not play at all. That's a sign of who is going to the starter for the regular season. Pewter Report recaps the biggest moments from the game. This includes another highlight-reel touchdown for Trey Palmer, Dee Delany taking steps to win the slot corner role and an unfortunate scary injury to quarterback John Wolford. We'll also di...
2023-08-201h 02Pewter Report PodcastTrask Takes The Lead: Bucs Camp ReportThe tides are beginning to turn at Bucs training camp as Kyle Trask has been the better quarterback as of late over Baker Mayfield. A lot of that has to do with the turnovers caused by Mayfeld, but Trask has done well being assertive in this offense too.Pewter Report breaks down the performance of both quarterbacks from training camp as well as other highlights from the players on the roster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-08-031h 01Pewter Report PodcastMayfield vs. Trask ComparisonThe biggest competition for the Bucs going into OTAs and training camp is Baker Mayfield against Kyle Trask for the right to be the Bucs' next starting quarterback. With new offensive coordinator Dave Canales implementing a new system, that adds something different into the mix.Who's going to win the starting job? Matt Matera talks with Dynasty Pros content director Dustin Ludke about both quarterbacks, discussing the positives and negatives of Mayfield and Trask and how both players can win this battle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
2023-05-201h 08Pewter Report PodcastWhite, Trask Presser ReactionThe Pewter Report squad recaps the press conferences of Bucs running back Rachaad White and quarterback Kyle Trask with an analyzation on their comments. We'll hear what White has to say about being the top running back while getting insight from Trask about the his quarterback competition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-04-171h 01
TECHEDTV Podcast with Dr. Edwin HernandezArtificial Intelligence with Dr. Hahn and Matt Trask Episode 2/2What is the AI Sandbox at FAU? Following up with prior interview, Dr. Hahn & Matt Trask stayed at the EGLAVATOR.com studios at EGLAcorp.com headquarters. Dr. Hahn & Matt brings us another 20-minutes of discussions on AI, projects, and how is this being taught at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Can anyone participate of AI research? How is this research helping our world. Also watch this version on TECHEDTV Youtube video
https://youtu.be/AvrzkFQkJDQ
2022-10-1920 min
TECHEDTV Podcast with Dr. Edwin HernandezArtificial Intelligence - Interview with Dr. Hahn & Matt Trask Ep 1/2Interview with Dr. William Hahn and Matt Trask
Artificial Intelligence has been evolving and creating new opportunities for innovation, when in the past Artificial Intelligence was just an idea. We discuss at the EGLAVATOR.com studios and EGLACORP.com headquarters how sites like OpenAI, GPT-6, and others have become a reality. The MPCR Lab at FAU is working on several areas (https://mpcrlabs.com/)
The MPCR lab is a multidisciplinary research group exploring the interface between mathematics, electronics, and the natural sciences. Our research consists of physical/digital agents that learn, evolve, and live within synthetic environments. We create embedded an...
2022-10-1923 min
PHP Town HallHere lies dynamic properties. They were good properties Brent.Matt and Ben are joined by Colin O'Dell, staff engineer at Wayfair and supporter of the twitter dividing Dynamic Properties RFC to discuss what this RFC really means for PHP going forward and if its really a good idea. They also talk to Colin about what its like to change jobs after a long tenure (13 years) at his previous job, what he likes and doesn't like about using a Mac for a daily work computer and also managing one of the biggest OSS libraries for PHP: CommonMark.Show Notes:Deprecate Dynamic Properties RFCColin...
2021-12-1437 minPHP Town HallEpisode 83: A catch up and a car crashBen and Matt catch up since its been a minute since it's just the two of them have talked. They talk all kinds of things about life, conferences, getting hit by a car and how to best impersonate Chuck Norris style rolls.
2021-10-281h 12PHP 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
API StorytellingAPI Storytelling with Matt TraskThis is a gathering of API storytellers, exploring what is going on around us each day, using API technology to make sense of who we are. In this episode we explore the Swagger meme from Matt Trask. Opening image credit goes to Giulia Forsythe (@giuliaforsythe).
2021-07-1058 min
Catholic ReCon | Conversion StoriesHow Scott Hahn's Special Delivery Helped a Baptist Pastor Become Catholic | Guest Ken HensleyIn this video, Ken Hensley of the Coming Home Network discusses his incredibly difficult paradigm shift from Protestant Pastor to Catholic layman.
Ken's info: https://kennethhensley.com
https://chnetwork.org/on-the-journey-with-matt-ken/
#BaptistPastor #CatholicChurch #Conversion #CountTheCost #EarlyChurchFathers #CatholicTestimony #Theologian #Divinity #JesusChrist #VincibleIgnorance #ScottHahn #PatrickMadrid #CatholicConvert
For more info, visit www.eddietrask.com
2021-07-071h 15Catholic ReCon | Conversion StoriesHow a Methodist Christian Metalcore Band Member Became a Catholic Host and Apologist | Guest Matt SwaimIn this week's episode, EWTN Radio Host Matt Swaim discusses his Methodist upbringing, his Christian metal days, and his objective to reach future converts.
#Methodist #ChristianMetal #JourneyHome #ReligiousLyrics #ReligiousRebellion #CatholicEpic #CatholicChurch #JesusChrist #HolyTrinity #SaintsandSinners #RomanCatholic #Metalcore #CatholicConversion #JackChick #AntiCatholic
https://www.ewtn.com/radio/shows/son-rise-morning-show
https://chnetwork.org/on-the-journey-with-matt-ken/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZa7yhq5S-M
For more info, visit www.eddietrask.com
2021-07-0754 minPHP 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
Matt Peet Marketing PodcastHow YOU can Improve your marketing by improving your mindset!In this episode, Jennifer Trask and I discuss how your mindset can effect your marketing. About Jennifer Jennifer Trask is an award winning coach who has spent over a decade helping driven entrepreneurs build powerhouse mindsets that enable them to take action built on incredible courage, confidence and clarity. Combined with strategic business direction, Jennifer’s clients experience massive shifts and growth in their business’s. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing, an MBA in International Business and is an NLP Practitioner. She has been voted Diamond & Platinum Life Coach of The Year by Toronto S...
2021-05-051h 00PHP 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 minPHP 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 01PHP 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 minPHP 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 minPHP Town HallEpisode 76: Mad Max DevRelThe Twilio crew, bored because they can’t go to conferences to show people the cool shit you can build with their APIs, take over the podcast to talk about life as a grounded devrel. Matt is joined by Margaret Staples (@dead_lugosi), Gary Hockin (@geeh) and back to back guest Marcus Battle (@themarcusbattle). We discuss the Twilio Quest project and how Twilio is leveraging new ways for their dev rels to get their brand out there. We also talk about what we miss most about not being able to go to conferences and drink with friends. It got a...
2020-07-2248 minPHP 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 01PHP 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 minPHP 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 minPHP 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 minPHP 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 minPHP Town HallEpisode 70: Dries-int up your controllersMatt Trask is joined by Dries Vints to talk about being employed by Laravel, organizing a conference, why the Last Jedi is absolute garbage, and how Dries manages to do so much (spoiler: don’t have a significant other).
Links
Laravel
Laravel.io
FullStackEu
Eventy
Dries’ Blog
2019-11-2144 minPHP 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 04PHP 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 minPHP 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 minPHP 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
How To Code Well28 - Matt Trask Open sourcing mental illnessMatt Trask joins me on today's podcast to talk about Open Sourcing Mental Illness (OSMI) and why mental health is important in Web Development.
Matt Trask is senior PHP developer, open source contributor, speaker, OSMI volunteer and keen cyclist.
If you are suffering from mental health please speak to someone about it. Web developers are not immune from suffering from poor mental health. Please look after yourself.
Happy Coding
Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/28
2019-04-1939 minPHP 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 13PHP Town HallEpisode 64: Symfony Round UpMatt Trask and Amanda Folson are joined by Ryan Weaver to take a look at the landscape of the Symfony Ecosystem.
They discuss a few new packages from the Symfony team such as Mailer, HTTP Interface, API Platform as well as discussing the EU’s funding of a 48 hour hackathon that Ryan woke up at 3am in the morning for.
Links
Symfony
2019-04-0956 minPHP 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 12PHP 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 02PHP 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 02PHP 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 37PHP 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 23PHP 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 05PHP 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 minPHP 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 14PHP 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 15PHP 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 34PHP 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 minPHP 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 minPHP 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 minPHP Town HallEpisode 49: Async and StuffThe notes for this episode were lost when Phil spilt some really hipster orange juice over his
laptop and bricked the whole thing. We do remember that returning guest Chris Boden and Chris Pitt swing by to talk async in PHP.
In a future episode we’ll probably talk about data backup strategies.
Benchmarking Codswallop: NodeJS vs PHP - An oldie but a goody, why NodeJS isn’t magically better at async than PHP
Ratchet - WebSockets for PHP
A Case for Async PHP - Chris Pitt wrote about this stuff on Medium
icicle.io - Writ...
2016-03-171h 05PHP Town HallEpisode 48: Code of ConductUser-group and meet-up organizer Jenny Wong swings by for a chat about the PHP RFC for a Code of Conduct.
Whilst all three of us think a Code of Conduct is a good idea, we talk through some of the various for and against reasoning that people have, and try to outline the logical failures behind some of the FUD being spread around during this discussion.
We cover a few things, from the intent of a Code of Conduct, explain it’s reach is not as scary as many seem to think, outline a few th...
2016-02-151h 33PHP 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 03PHP 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 10PHP 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 minPHP Town HallEpisode 44: API Madness!Listen to API pros Amanda Folson and Mike Stowe talk about API versioning, RAML, and all sorts of interesting API stuff.
Phil ended up having a listen to this after the fact, and found it awesome! This episode is probably better for him not being there, as there are some opinions that didn’t initially match his, but they’re really interesting and make him reconsider a few things.
2015-07-221h 02PHP Town HallEpisode 43: Midnight ExpressYour two favourite PHP developers are joined this episode by Emir Karşıyakalı off of PHPKonf and IstanbulPHP.
Istanbul is not only a beautiful and awesome city, but it’s got a thriving PHP community too, who are currently hosting a whole bunch of PHP stars for their annual conference.
Once again we promised to get this up before the conference to advertise it, and we’re releasing this audio version the night before, but what can we say… we’re shit at this.
2015-06-1223 minPHP 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 04PHP Town HallEpisode 41: Loosely Town Hall - Dallas EditionThis episode is brought to you from thunderstruck Dallas, as part of the awesome conference that is Lone Star PHP. We are joined once again by the dynamic duo Jeff Carouth and Matt Frost off of the Loosely Coupled podcast!
We mostly make a bunch of bad jokes then drag up the audience to talk about stuff. Lets be honest, this was a bit of a crapshoot, but Elizabeth Smith goes into some detail on PECL and the problems of ownership. PSR-7 is chatted about for the 19th time and Jordi talks a bit about pickles.
2015-04-191h 05PHP Town HallEpisode 40: Return of the FerraraRegular guest Anthony Ferrara joins us “in the studio” to talk about the new version of his scalar type hints, which since recording - a f**king month ago - has been accepted for PHP 7.
We thought it would be good to have a bit of a chat about the feature, the nonsense that surrounded it and a bunch of other random internals and PHP 7 related blathering.
2015-03-211h 24PHP 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 minPHP 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 13PHP Town HallEpisode 36: PSR-7 and The World of TomorrowTwo awesome guests join this week, from two different framework projects, both who have been very vocal about their interest in PSR-7: HTTP Message. These two chaps were Hari K T and Matthew Weier O’Phinney.
Now PSR chats can be a little boring when its about autoloading or tabs v bloody spaces, but this PSR could have some really big impact on the way you write PHP over the next few years.
We talk a bunch about Aura and Zend and their plans around middlewares, what motivated Matthew to get involved with taking over PS...
2015-02-0352 minPHP Town HallEpisode 34: /dev/hell MashupThis is a big one. We’ve had Chris “The Grumpy Programmer” Hartjes and Ed “The Grumpy Podcaster” Finkler on our show before, but this time they both join us for a mashup!
We talk about the perils of being opinionated people speaking in public. Chris basically just says fuck Reddit and all of its minions of evil, and Phil gives a bit of insight into why he gets stuck in so many arguments.
We move on to chatting about PHP, and how people feel about a strong new demand for more async features. Is it better...
2015-01-091h 33PHP Town HallEpisode 35: Developer to CTO and BackThe grass is always greener on the other side, but we have a little talk with Gary Hockin and regular guest Jacques Woodcock about the pros and cons of going up and down the chain of command in the developer world. After all, it doesn’t just need to be a one-way street.
We also talk about a few general bits, like whether PHP 5.7 should have happened, should we cry over spilled constructors and Gary bangs on for ages about how Waterfall is better than Agile.
2015-01-091h 21PHP 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 minPHP 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 02PHP 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 minPHP 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 14PHP 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 19PHP 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 54PHP Town HallEpisode 27: Josh Lockhart and Jeremy MikolaThis episode is a long one, but we are back to improved audio and the video is not just one dude eating pzza for an hour. Josh Lockhart of PHP The Right Way and Slim fame, and Jeremy Mikola who is well known for banging on about clouds and playing magic the gathering. Oh, he also works for MongoDB.
Warning: Puns and occasional swears.
Some projects have been discovering they use language which can be offensive like master/slave. How do they deal with it, and how should they deal with it?
We...
2014-06-291h 32PHP Town HallEpisode 26: Hello Front Range!The Front Range PHP user-group joins the show as a live audience for the episode 26, in a new crazy bonus format which Phil thought might be fun. The idea of the episode is for people to generally pick our brain about PHP and code and tech and things. It kinda worked but the sound quality was terrible. Sorry about that folks.
They ask us a bunch of questions about how we got started in PHP.
Picking a framework that would last 10 years for enterprise?
How to migrate from CodeIgniter to Laravel?
What do you use for...
2014-06-1853 minPHP 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 minPHP 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 35PHP 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 19PHP 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 06PHP Town HallEpisode 21: Attack of the BraziliansThis week author of “Vagrant CookBook” Érika Heidi and serial usergroup creator Rafael Dohms join the show to
talk about… well, all of that. Two Brazilian PHP developers now living in Amsterdam, tell their stories and talk
about what they do.
We cover a lot of conversation connected to Vagrant and some of its upcoming features and functionality. We also talk
about provisioning, comparing Chef, Puppet and Ansible.
This weeks questions from the audience:
What are your thoughts on using Bash as a provisioner? Why or why not use it?
– Edmund Zynda
Thought...
2014-03-141h 07PHP 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 03PHP Town HallEpisode 19: Jeffrey Way, Laracasts and BDFLsWell known PHP/Laravel nice-guy Jeffrey Way from NetTuts and Laracasts joins regular guest Zack Kitzmiller to
discuss the wonderful world of Laravel once again. This time the discussion focuses on some of the silly complaints
people have with an otherwise wonderful system, and on the reusability of its packages.
Laracasts - “Hi, I’m Jeffrey. What would you like to learn today?”
Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP - Get your PHP code under control in a series of small, specific steps
DBAD (Dont Be a Dick) Public License - Something between WTFPL and MIT
Illuminate - The compon...
2014-02-1559 minPHP Town HallEpisode 18: PHPDBG, HHVM and InternalsJoe Watkins and Sara Goleman join Phil to make one hell of an episode. These two are not only core contributors to PHP, but are behind a lot of RFCs and decisions that make PHP considerably better. We talk about a whole bunch of awesome stuff, including progress of the named parameters RFC - and the chances of it making in, the new accepted PHP 5.6 feature PHPDBG and what it means for you, HHVM and its relationship to “The PHP”, wether PHP should have a spec for implementations of the language, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Sa...
2014-01-2954 minPHP Town HallEpisode 17: Authors Galore, Conferences and Game ChangersCal Evans talks with us about some of the great projects he is (and has) been involved with, including training days, writing books, speaking, organising conferences and a bunch more.
Seriously, this guy has done a shitload of stuff:
Voices of the Eephant Podcast
NomadPHP
Day Camp 4 Developers
Signaling PHP Book
More relevant links:
Build API’s You Won’t Hate - Phil’s latest book
SunshinePHP 2014 Conference
Taylor Otwell’s upcoming NomadPHP Talk
Phil Sturgeon’s previous NomadPHP Talk - There is a coupon code in this episode
PHP Debugger (PHPDBG)
Annoyingly in this ep...
2013-12-301h 02PHP Town HallEpisode 16: Laravel 4.1, Go and the Vagrant FistfightTaylor Otwell comes back on the show for a second time and regular guest Zack Kitzmiller turns up to coerce Taylor
into letting him speak at LaraCon 2014.
Taylor was the first guest we ever had on PHP Town Hall talking about his plans for Laravel 4 before it was even released, so it gives us a great opportunity to look back on the year and see how things have gone. We discuss the changes to Laravel and it’s community, and discuss how various changes in the PHP ecosystem (like PHP 5.3 support becoming less of a demand) could ef...
2013-12-031h 17PHP Town HallEpisode 15: The Joomla Framework and the ongoing history of PSR-4The wonderfully handsome Don Gilbert joins us on our new YouTube Channel for our first live-recording of PHP Town Hall!
He’s been working on the Joomla Framework to get it up to scratch with modern standards ready for a Joomla CMS rewrite, much in the same way that EllisLab pulled CodeIgniter out of ExpressionEngine… except for the standards bit, because they didn’t exist and PHP developers were too busy clubbing each other to death over tabs v spaces.
We discuss how that whole situation is going, how they’ve been implementing various standards, how did...
2013-11-141h 12PHP 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 05PHP 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 minPHP 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 04PHP Town HallEpisode 11: Bike SafetyLearn what happens when you wear high-heels on a bike, and what can go wrong if you get into an unstable
spin when you jump out of a plane.
We also talk about code.
Charles - A HTTP proxy
Postman - REST Client
The PHP League of Extraordinary Packages
PHP RFC: Constant Scalar Expressions
GothamJS - The New York JavaScript Conference
SkiPHP
2013-09-031h 15PHP Town HallEpisode 10: Postgres, Bla, Bla, CiderThis time around we’re joined by Selena Deckelmann, who as a Postgres contributor
talks to us about some of the burning questions many PHP developers often have about Postgres
when considering it as a replacement for the PHP’s defacto-standard relational DB: MySQL.
We ask “Why are so few of the “cool kids” using Postgresql?” and “What are the most important differences between MySQL & Postgres?”, and after a bunch of useful discussion on things like true full text search,
complex indexes, PostGIS and Foreign Data Wrappers we end up discussing cider and chickens. Standard.
Planet Postgres
Taps...
2013-07-2455 minPHP 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 minPHP 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 minPHP 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 minPHP 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 15PHP 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 19PHP Town HallEpisode 4: PHP's Vision, Beards, and CakeWe made it to episode 4, past the point of no return! In this episode we are joined by Zack Kitzmiller (owner of an awesome beard) and Jose Diaz-Gonzalez (CakePHP developer extraordinaire) as we argue about PHP’s vision and how we think the language should progress in the future.
PHP 6: Pissing in the Wind
2013-02-1547 minPHP 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 minPHP Town HallEpisode 2: A Node hipster, beardy Python fan, PHP contributor and a Bristolian talk about PHP 5.5We’re back for an “IRL” episode, with Zack Kitzmiller, John Crepezzi and Anthony Ferrera, discussing PHP 5.5 and the new features it will bring.
Note: The sound quality in this one is just awful, so sorry about that. This is the first time I have tried recording a podcast in a group like this, The quality will be considerably better next time around. If you want to skip this one then fair enough, but please come back for the third episode. Phil
PHP: Innocent Villagefolk or a Pillagin’ Pirate?
What PHP 5.5 might look like
ErrorExceptions
Password API for...
2012-12-051h 09PHP 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.
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