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The big four-oh hits us, this time with our special Fictive Kin friend Sean Coates. We talk lots about deploying web applications in various languages, the imapct Composer has had on PHP development, formal and informal mentoring, and how to get accepted to speak at conferences. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 32.1MB, 1:09:20) Links and Notes Fictive Kin Calvin & Hobbes transmogrifier RVM + Bundler Composer + Packagist PIP + Virtualenv Built-in server in PHP 5.4+ Flask Shared-nothing architectures PHPMentoring.org Tug Mcgraw Webshell Variadic functions in PHP 5.6 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argument_unpacking

Okay, first off, this episode sounds like crap. We weren’t really prepared to record and used half-assed equipment and stuff. Sorry guys. It should at least be listenable. Anyway, this was recorded the night before SkiPHP started, which was an awesome PHP conference in Salt Lake City. We ramble about a lot of stuff, including our first conferences, America’s first serial killer, our approaches for giving talks, and Chris' secret identity. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 26.2MB, 59:45) Links and Notes SkiPHP H Hatfield H H Holmes The Devil in the White City Shush.app Variadic functions RFC In and Out Secret Menu

In this podcast recorded AFTER True North PHP, Chris and Ed are joined by the esteemed Jonathan Snook, web developer extraordinaire. We talk about the heady days of Twitter app dev, how Jonathan got to be a Big Deal, and why there are so many Snooks in web dev. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 26.5MB, 59:40) Links and Notes Remembrance Day Hardcore History podcast Dark Secret Place Spaz Snook’s site SMACSS

In this podcast recorded before True North PHP, we talk to Paul M Jones, creator of the Solar framework and Aura component library. Lots of stuff about confusing things like dependency injection and human behavior in tribes. Probably someone will get mad about this episode. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 27.9MB, 1:02:24) Links and Notes Aura Service Injection/DI/whatev RequireJS MWOP Laravel RAP BEEF Tribalism Temerity The Fog Of War Jets vs Sharks Paul’s blog post where he gets yelled at a bunch

So our pace is a little slower due to work crap, but DEV HELL LIVES. Episode 6d6 kicks off with us waxing about what’s exciting in PHP development nowadays. We also talk about upcoming appearances at TrueNorth PHP, NomadPHP and SkiPHP. Then we get into the discussion of alcohol consumption at tech conferences, and malware on the PHP.net site. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 25.7MB, 55:08) Links and Notes TrueNorth PHP NomadPHP SkiPHP HHVM Hack for HHVM presentation slides Composer Dev server in PHP 5.4 Respect/Validation Idiorm Booze, Babes and Buttholes Blog post on malware served from PHP.net

FINALLY! We’re back from the Summer of Funksanity hiatus with a new show. We talk about Ed’s speaking tour stops at OSCON, Distill, and Madison Ruby. We also discuss the exciting new mental illness awareness campaign Engine Yard has started, called Prompt. PHP Internals jabbering gets touched on a little, and Chris’s softball league. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 27.3MB, 55:09) Links and Notes In our usual epic-length conversation we talked about: PHP internals Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness speaking campaign Prompt OSCON Distill Madison Ruby

This time out our Very Special Guest is Sara Goleman, long-time PHP core contributor, author of the only good book on writing extensions for PHP and the driving force behind that open source projects of HipHop for PHP, a virtual machine, runtime and Just-In-Time compiler for PHP that powers much of Facebook’s infrastructure. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 29MB, 1:05:09) Links and Notes In our usual epic-length conversation we talked about: The HipHop Virtual Machine The soul-crushing experience of the “PHP internals” mailing list Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness Summer Tour The TrueNorthPHP Call for Papers opened up and the code is open source Discussions about how the three of us find the energy to give a shit about everything Alternate books from the Bible Comforting sounds to work too Finally, how can we tell if Sara is pissed? Also, as a totally random thing from th

Back in the saddle for the double-tres, Chris and Ed rap about the loss of trust in Google and how that affects their perception of the Go language. Then Ed babbles for way too long about vintage gaming and computing. Chris wonders how you could be truly private on the Internet in the light of widespread government surveillance. Finally, we talk about the importance of automation and repeatable processes. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 28.3MB, 1:02:20) Links and Notes Go XRGB Mini Framemeister OpenEmu Compiling from source X-Arcade Mac OS X driver for XBox 360 controller The Tor Project Vagrant Puppet

Short notes time: In this episode, Chris and Ed talk about conferences we always wanted to go to, and languages & tools we’d thought we’d hate and turned out to like. Then Ed waxes on the Open Recipes project. Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on Facebook here Listen Download now (MP3, 29.5MB, 1:05:27) Links and Notes PHP Matsuri PyCon OSCON StrangeLoop NAMM Summer CES (Nintendo JACKIN' Sony) LambdaJam Aspen – Discussion of on Episode 17 No-Framework Framework by Rasmus Lerdorf Eloquent JavaScript – original HTML version JavaScript: The Good Parts Open Recipes schema.org

In our action-packed 30th episode Ed and Chris discussed their experiences with JavaScript testing tools, specifically how certain tools push you towards specific refactoring patterns. Chris talked about the successful launch of his latest book on using PHPUnit and got into some honest talk about revenue and how the product development course helped him make this book do 4 times the launch day revenue of his previous one. Ed discussed his plans to talk about mental illness on the conference circuit this year. Please help out by donating to the campaign! Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on Facebook here Listen Download now (MP3, 25.2MB, 55:13) Links and Notes Mocha Sinon.JS Jasmine and Jasmine-node QUnit The Grumpy Programmer’s PHPUnit Cookbook 30x500 LoneStar PHP Open Sourcing Mental Illness Require.JS PhantomJS Zombie.js Karma “It’s pronounced ‘jif’” Chris' new favourite thought leader Async JavaScript made the jump from Leanpub to

Being totally out of ideas, we turned things over to our legions of fans who joined us on IRC. Lots of interesting questions, and people learned what Ed thought was horseshit. Special thanks to Joel Clermont for killing the show with this joke: Q: “What’s the difference between a junior and senior developer?” A: “$40k” If you’re interested in sponsoring Development Hell, let us know! Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on Facebook here Listen Download now (MP3, 38.5MB, 1:25:55) Links and Notes Sublime Text 2 Vim Emacs Eclipse BBEdit HomeSite HTMLKit SubEthaEdit TextMate Has PHP reached it’s limit? Yahoo! calls all remote workers home. Is there a hidden motive behind it Liberal vs. conservative programmers Thoughts on the male gaze Chris feels this essay shows a lack of understanding about collaboration Estimating projects using the metric system Should the PHP core team care what users of the language want

You can blame Chris’s tomfoolery for how crappy he sounds, because his computer pooped all over himself and he had to call in on his iPhone. Nevertheless, we were able to discuss in detail the smuggling of mass-produced pastries of the Twinkie and Tastykake varieties. We also get framework security in the context of recent Rails vulnerabilities, and how PHP developers seem to have a heightened awareness of potential vulnerabilities. Ed’s details his experiences starting a local user group, and then discusses his efforts to speak at developer/tech conferences about his struggles with mental illness. As always, thank you to our awesome sponsor Wonder Network for providing bandwidth for our live stream. If you’re interested in sponsoring Development Hell, let us know! Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on Facebook here Listen Download now (MP3, 29.3MB, 1:03:38) Links and Notes Twinkie the Kid is Alive and Well and Living in Canada Tastykake Ruby on Rails JS

This episode marks a return, both for special guest Selena Deckelmann, and our special hand-made artisan podcasting. Know that this episode was made with locally-sourced bytes, harvested with care and respect for the Earth. We talk with Selena about working at Mozilla, her switch to Linux on the desktop, and how marketing is weightier than merit in determining a product’s success. This episode’s super-special sponsor is EasyBib! They are looking for junior and senior PHP devs to work on their awesome academic web app. Check out the job description and email stuff to till+php@imagineeasy.com. As always, thank you to our awesome sponsors at Engine Yard and Wonder Network for providing cashmoney and bandwidth for our live stream, respectively. Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on Facebook here Listen Download now (MP3, 33.2MB, 1:14:08) Links and Note

The first episode of 2013 find Chris and Ed talking about the tragedy of Aaron Swartzs' suicide, both in the context of governmental power and mental illness. We also talk about Ed’s favorite (and only tolerable) Apple-related podcast ending. Finally, Ed rambles about SASS, a superset of CSS3 that makes writing CSS less painful. We have a new sponsor! EasyBib is looking for junior and senior PHP devs to work on their awesome academic web app. Check out the job description and email stuff to till+php@imagineeasy.com. As always, thank you to our awesome sponsors at Engine Yard and Wonder Network for providing cashmoney and bandwidth for our live stream, respectively. Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on Facebook here Listen Download now (MP3, 29MB, 1:02:33) Links and Notes Lincoln Park Chicago Appl store Linkin Park’s Mysterious Cyberstalker Aa

It has now been 25 times that Ed and Chris have fired up Skype and talked to each other and some friends, old and new, about whatever the hell they felt like talking about. They would keep doing this even if nobody else listened, because developer misery loves company. Thank you to everyone who has been listening to us work out our own issues with the technologies that help shovel money into our bank accounts. In this episode Ed talked about his experiences at CodeConnex, Chris tried to goad Ed into further ranting and arguments about the latest round of push-backs against the microframework manifesto and people crying about other people crying about dependencies in their code. The show then ended with Ed speaking about the very real challenge of creating awesome infinite scrolling experiences, which made Chris realize he is better off learning Javascript just to use Node and avoid the mess that is the DOM. As always, thank you to our awesome sponsors at Engine Yard and Wonder Network for providing cash

Special guest Matt Turland joins us for episode 24, and tells us how much of an asshole Chris is in real life. We also talk a lot about team development processes, including ramping up new hires, documenting processes, and workflow tools. Lots of super smart stuff that we’re usually too lazy to do. If you’re the corncob on our picnic plate, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Engine Yard Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on Facebook here Listen Download now (MP3, 36.4MB, 1:20:31) Links and Notes Matthew Turland Phergie IRC bot Members Only jackets Synacor Catalyst Framework Service-oriented architecture on Wikipedia Varnish Fred George — Micro Service Architecture talk, Programmer Anarchy talk Scaling With Swagger

Well crap. Episode 23 had a bad edit screwup in it, and the last 30m was basically unlistenable. This has been corrected below and at the original URL. For notes and comments, see the original post. Listen Download now (MP3, 40.1MB, 1:30:00)

UPDATE Nov 28 2012: We fixed a bad error in the original audio file. Please re-download to get the corrected file Episode 23 is packed chock-full of awesome guests. We talk about the controversy around the cancellation of BritRuby, and the larger issues of diversity and inclusiveness at tech conferences, with Ashe Dryden and Reg Braithwaite. We also get into the goofiness of Star Trek and the wonder of railroad games. If you’re the soul in the software, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Engine Yard Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Like us on Facebook here Listen Download now (MP3, 40.1MB, 1:30:00) Links and Notes Ashe Dryden Reg Braithwaite BritRuby 2013 site (screen cap of Google cache) True North PHP Billy Martin’s Technique for Managing his Manager United Colors of Benetton “Girls” as a non-gendered term Ticket to Ride on iOS Carcassonne Empire Builder Coffeescript Ristretto

We hit the Double Deuce this week with special guest Jim Gay. Jim is the author of Clean Ruby, the upcoming book that applies “Data, Context and Interaction” (DCI) concepts to Ruby and Rails development. Jim is clearly much smarter than us, so we took this opportunity to attack him mercilessly as a representative of the sexist Ruby community. Jim also shares his experiences as a self-published author. In addition, we talk about how True North PHP planning is going for Chris, and Ed’s experiences at Brooklyn Beta. If you’re a true believer, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 33.1MB, 1:14:41) Links and Notes Jim Gay Clean Ruby Brooklyn Beta Cory Booker True North PHP Maciej “Pinboard guy” Ceglowski Ben Pieratt Codeconnexx 30x500 DCI on Wikipedia DCI web site GeekFeminism Wiki article on CouchDB talk at the 2009 Golden Gate Ruby Conference Anti-Oppression

Twenty-one. Like blackjack. Like the gun salute. For those about to rock. We recorded this episode just a few days after #20, because we were able to get Elizabeth Naramore as a super-special secret guest! She talks to us about Codeconnexx, an open source tech and life skills conference in Indianapolis Nov 8-9. We also talked a lot about getting women to submit talks to conferences, including the success that Jan Lehnardt has had in this area with JSConfEU. We then get into Chris’s experiments with JS testing, and what we think of App.net from a developer perspective. If you’re support the inalienable rights of all humans, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 28.5MB, 1:06:42) Links and Notes Codeconnexx True North PHP Øredev 2012 How We Got 25% Women Speakers for JSConf EU 2012 Elizabeth Naramore’s Blog Qunit Jasmine Chai Mocha Sinon App.net Post p