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This episode, Chris remembers his feline companion and Office Manager who passed away recently. Then we get into an insanely long discussion of travel tips and horror stories. Do these things! If you liked the Office Manager, please donate to http://omhs.ca/ Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Nexus TSA Pre-check E-passport map of LAX php[cruise] 2016

This time out we spoke with Noelle Daley who shared her experiences at New Relic moving developer relations to being a developer via a programming bootcamp. We also discussed Ed’s latest round of work promoting OSMI and Noelle’s talk she gave at OSBridge in Portland. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Noelle on Twitter Noelle polished up her developer skills at HackBright She works on the New Relic APM product It’s pretty awesome that New Relic provides opportunities for people to transition into different types of jobs Ed’s local newspaper talked about his work on OSMI Chris had a great time at PHP Southcoast He also got to hangout with 1300 fellow co-workers in London Perl 5’s super-chill release manager Open Source Bridge Find out what conferences are accepting papers at The CFP Report

It’s rare that we have some folks who work for the same employer back-to-back on the show, but this time out we spoke with Jessica Rose. Jessica is Tracy Osborne’s boss (Tracy was on the show in Episode 77) and talked about her own experiences creating a different kind of developer relations team at Dream Factory. Along the way we found out how much better Chris handled jet lag at the same Australian conference Jessica was at and how thankful she is her husband pays zero attention to Twitter. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Jessica on Twitter Her employer Dream Factory Jessica and Ed really enjoy AirBnB while Chris is a dedicated “sharing economy” hater. Meet the new middleman, same as the old middleman The famous “no regerts” tattoo The Car Wars game from Steve Jackson Games Read the crazy story of when Steve Jac

On the 77th episode of you favourite comedy podcast about technology and aging programmers, Chris and Ed spoke with Tracy Osborn about her new job in developer relations, living the sweet rent-free life in the Bay Area and how she is making the smart move of relocating with her Kanuckistanian husband to Toronto. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code ‘devhell’ Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Tracy on Twitter She works at DreamFactory Her wedding startup 500 Startups Accelerator Be sure to read the source at Reportive.com Docker The drive-in theatre near Chris Tracy went to Cal Poly for Computer Science but quickly switched Zed Shaw’s Learn Python The Hard Way Tracy’s Hello Web App books Both Chris and Tracy know Amy Hoy Ed’s series of tweets about a self-absorbed programmer

Photo by Sira Sara - CC BY 2.0 Chris and Ed sit down to talk about their recent travels to conference both near and far and to also discuss what tools and languages they have been using at their day jobs. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code devhell Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 89.6MB, 1:34:39) Links and Notes Tools we use: Languages: Ed: PHP, JavaScript, Python Chris: Python with a side of PHP Editors: PHPStorm* Sublime Text Nano Marked editor for previewing Markdown documents Atom Vim Libraries and tools Vue.js HTTPie Ed did not like Webpack py.test Chris just got into the private beta for Docker Paw HTTP client for OS-X Things we wanted to use but never got into it Ed: I bought multiple ruby and rails books Chris: Node, Emacs, step-through debuggers

We’re three-quarters of the way through to The End! In this episode it was just Ed and Chris talking about two issues that are very important to them. We go over the early results from Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness survey and then have a very long discussion about the events surrounding LambdaConf 2016. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code ‘devhell’ Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 89.4MB, 1:34:09) Links and Notes Please fill out the OSMI survey LambdaConf organizer’s explanations Brendan Eich resigning as Mozilla CEO after 9 days Body Count’s “Cop Killer” controversy Ed spoke at The Combine Ed will be speaking at Kalamazoo X Chris spent 27 hours flying each way to speak at PHP Austrailia Conference

Photo by Kittenlive - CC BY-SA 3.0 In this episode we were extremely lucky to get Kenneth Reitz on the show to discuss his experiences when he had a mental health event that resulted in a stay in the hospital and some major life changes as a result. Normally we’re a comedy podcast that focusses on technology, but issues surrounding mental health are very important to us. We’re extremely grateful that Kenneth came on and was very open about what happened to him. We hope you enjoy what was a great, open, freewheeling discussion about how the symptoms of some mental illnesses appear beneficial from the outside. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code ‘devhell’ Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 97.2MB, 1:43:49) Links and Notes Kenneth on Twitter Requests Python HTTP library Heroku Kenneth’s po

This time out we had PHP community icon Cal “Doesn’t Follow Chris On Twitter” Evans on to discuss the traveling minstrel show known as NomadPHP, the awesomeness of Day Camp 4 Developers, his thoughts on how Mailchimp handled The Mandrill Issue, and helped trigger Chris in to an epic rant. Chris also hopes that Cal has not noticed he hadn’t finished that thing he was supposed to do for him yet. It will be done really soon! We’ll be giving away 4 free tickets to the Day Camp 4 Developers on Modern PHP on April 22, 2016! Sign up for our mailing list now to enter the drawing! Don’t forget about our special offer for listeners! Get 50% off Backup Pro’s CMS plugins by using the promo code devhell! And get trials of Backup Pro for ExpressionEngine 2, ExpressionEngine 3, Craft, WordPress, PrestaShop, and Concrete5! Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code devhell Buy stic

Jason Myers came on the show to talk about his experiences running not one but TWO conferences in the Nashville, Tennessee area, along with how he ended up writing a book about a popular Python database abstraction tool, and why he prefers the hermetic lifestyle. Along the way Chris and Jason also managed to beat a dead horse for a few minutes. Special offer for listeners! Get 50% off Backup Pro’s CMS plugins by using the promo code devhell! And get trials of Backup Pro for ExpressionEngine 2, ExpressionEngine 3, Craft, WordPress, PrestaShop, and Concrete5! Also! Listeners can get a 50% discount on Jason Myers' book Essential SQLAlchemy, 2nd Edition! Discount will show when you add it to your cart. Go buy it now! Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 68.4MB, 1:35:57) Links and Notes Jason on Twitter Jason’s book on SQLAlchemy PyTennessee Nodev

We really do appreciate our sponsors so when we get a chance to thank them in a way other than our awesome ad reads, we do it! On this episode you get twice the guest because we invited two of the three folks behind WonderNetworks to join us. Paul Reinheimer and Gemma Anible came on (and even did video via Skype so they could tell when we were getting bored) and talked about how WonderNetworks got started, Paul and Gemma’s preferred development style and Paul seemed determined (as he always is) to tweak Chris. Corrections and Updates From Episode 70 – Chris was wrong about the French legal system From Episode 70 – Chris was wrong about who played the creature in “The Thing From Another World” Do these things! Check out our sponsors Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 68.5MB, 1:35:12) Links and Notes Paul on Twitter Gemma on Twitter WonderProxy Where’s It Up

Welcome to a new year and hopefully a more frequent podcasting schedule of recording on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of every month. Can your favourite old-but-lazy duo maintain such a punishing pace? During the discussions for topics for this episode, Chris went to the bathroom for some quiet time. When he came back Ed had asked dedicated grumpy-Canadian hater Amanda Folson to join this episode to talk a bit about the life of a developer evangelist, Greg LeMonde, the Battle for PHP CoC, how Composer saved PHP, and CodeMash. Along the way Amanda and Ed ganged up on Chris showing their hatred for their peace-loving neighbours north of the 49th parallel and during the aftershow drove him away with talk about audio recording equipment. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 68.5MB, 1:35:12) Links and Notes Amanda on Twitter Amanda’s employer PagerDuty 24 Days In

After some airing of grievances and snarky emails, we managed to get our long- time personal friend Elizabeth Naramore to come on the show and talk about how she was scared for her life the first time she ever met Chris. We also got to continue to show how immature the three of us are with our constant giggling and inappropriate comments due to the innuendo-laden episode number. When we weren’t giggling we did talk about Liz’s studies into the psychology of open source communities and her work helping to teach more people how to use Gi-Thub. Ed and Chris discussed how the marketing efforts for their own products are different yet have the same end goal. Chris also talked about how he stupidly lost his passport while in Orlando for an all-hands meeting (1270 people!) for Mozilla. He was so stressed he didn’t even use the free park passes to Epcot, Hollywood Studios, or the Animal Kingdom. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop

In a great feat of strength we were lucky enough to have future Digital Prophet Samantha Quinones join us to talk about how she got involved with the PHP community and what it’s like to work for a company who’s office is constructed out of old CD’s. Along the way we talked about ways to discuss AOL with your millenial, her close personal relationship with the “You’ve Got Mail” Guy, and how to sell tampons using caching and firehoses. Ed also shared his latest updates about OSMI. Naturally there was also time to make fun of Chris' new employer Do these things! Check out our sponsors Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 85.2MB, 1:34:25) Links and Notes Samantha on Twitter The benefits of Lava soap IT’S PRONOUNCED ZED Slides from Samantha’s presentation at TrueNorthPHP AOL offload Tandem bicycles Kinto, Chris' first Mozilla project Jason and the Argonauts

Super special guest Gary Hockin of JetBrains, and previously dog wrangler at Roave, joins us for much fun discussion and blame-taking. We babble about Slack vs IRC, the dev evangelism life, software subscription models, and video games. Also we make the say command in OS X utter profane phrases. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 72.5MB, 1:35:53) Links and Notes Gary Hockin Narcos (netflix) Ministry Lead into Gold JetBrains PHPStorm   irccloud.com   slackhq.com  * developer-evangelism.com JetBrains subscription pricing announcement Vim bindings in PHPSTorm X-COM UFO Defense Baldur’s Gate MGS series Grammar Dalek (I do believe you mean Dr Whom) Romany Gypsy Caravan

Episode 66 was recorded live right after the inaugural Pacific Northwest PHP Conference. We make fun of our sponsors, talk about smelly tests, Thomas Aquinas, remote pairing with juniors, and new stuff happening with OSMI. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 51.1MB, 55:41) Links and Notes PNWPHP Conference Jeremy Lindblom The Seattle Underground Thomas Aquinas Mussolini Sara Golemon Cyborg Elephant Meat “Sock it to me!” Smelly Tests CuteFTP Selenium The Last Starfighter Open Sourcing Mental Illness

Episode 65: slow roasted for sweet mesquite flavor! Derick Bailey of WatchMeCode fame joins us for an awesome discussion of the trials and tribulations of developer entrepreneurship. Derick talks about why Signal Leaf is going away, and we swap terrifying PayPal stories. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 77.2MB, 1:28:12 ) Links and Notes Derick Bailey WatchMeCode Signal Leaf Brian P Hogan EntreProgrammers Podcast Derick’s series of videos for Pragmatic Programmers 30x500 Amy Hoy’s blog Gary Vaynerchuck’s TED talk DevChat.tv 5by5.tv

We recorded this ep with special guest Joe Ferguson about a month ago, but all sorts of family stuff delayed the release of this and Episode 63 (which we just released last week). On this episode we talk canine gold farming, bald eagles and beavers, how Joe secretly controls NomadPHP MC, NomadJS, and MemphisPHP, whether you’re supposed to drink Magners over ice, and how great Chris Cornutt is. We talked about more stuff but I got tired of writing things down. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 73.2MB, 1:23:12 ) Links and Notes Joe Ferguson Jeremy Kendall Chris Cornutt NomadPHP MemphisPHP Cal Evans Lightning talks youtube channel James Titcumb RabbitMQ Talk Eventbrite GoToMeeting NomadJS Magners Cider Pace Picante Sauce commercial Ansible ExpressionEngine Northeast PHP Conference Pacific NorthWest PHP Conference

So we recorded this nearly two months ago, but some family stuff delayed the release of this and Episode 64 (coming very soon). On this episode we talk about large developers, cars, Ed learning Java against his will, and Chris re-learning how to teach people. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 70.1MB, 1:20:05 ) Links and Notes Mondelēz International Neo4j Clojure Scala Akka Jython JRuby Maven Elevation Dock Amazon Echo How common is the name ‘Alexa’ Boldt Castle

phptek 2015 featured an awesome live recording of Development Hell in front of a rowdy audience. Our special guest Yitzchok Willroth, aka coderabbi, drops Talmudic knowledge on us, and we have great discussions about “hard” and “soft” talks, tech vs personal skills, and had a great Q&A session with the audience. Note that the audio quality isn’t quite up to our usual standards here. Recording live can be hard — sorry about the background noise! New Sponsors! We have two new sponsors for this episode. First is Pulse Storm, fine purveyors of Magento-related books and extensions. You can get 20% off with discount code devhell. Next is Graph Story, your new graph database SaaS provider. Check them out and tell them Development Hell sent you! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Pulse Storm (20% off with discount code devhell), Graph Story, Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Dow

Two Chrises? God help us. Our guest this episode is Chris Fidao, creator of the ultra-successful and awesome Servers For Hackers web site and e-book. We talk about info products (because Chris has to talk about his money making schemes all the time), what devs should know about devops, Nginx vs. Apache vs. Your Mom, and old tech that keeps on keeping on. Also an update of Gary Hockin’s ongoing embezzlement campaign. Did you know STICKERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE? BUY SOME NOW AT devhell.info/shop!!!! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 53.1MB, 1:14:00 ) Links and Notes MailChimp Servers for Hackers newsletter Blog UserScape MAMP/WAMP Vagrant tasksel install lamp-server upstart systemd sys5init