With a new design pattern coming out every week it can be easy to get caught up in all the hype. If you frequently try to implement the latest-and-greatest design pattern and feel constantly paralyzed by the thought, "I know I'm doing this wrong," this episode is for you. We discuss how "not seeing the forest for the trees" might be a good thing as we try to narrow our focus in order to write better code without thinking of patterns first.
Oct 25, 2015•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 32
User groups are core to the strength of the PHP community. We discuss what it takes to run a solid user group in your area; finding food & venue sponsors, finding speakers, dealing with money & expenses, and all the details that go into making a rockin' user group. And if you don't have a user group in your area, hopefully this episode will inspire you to take Cal Evans' advice and start one!
Oct 20, 2015•58 min•Ep. 31
We chatting with some PHP & HHVM internals folks to learn what's been going on in the world of internals.
Oct 06, 2015•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 30
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is an architecture that shifts our focus from one big monolithic web app to smaller connected web apps. We discuss what an SOA app looks like in the real world and how it affects our codebases, deployment & DevOps.
Sep 01, 2015•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 29
Inspired by a panel discussion at Midwest PHP 2015, we discuss what barriers exist for women in the PHP community and what we can all do to remove gender bias.
Aug 25, 2015•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 28
The PHP community has its fair-share of devs struggling with alcohol & weight loss and it doesn't help that there is a strong culture around alcohol consumption at nerd events. For some, the bottle is just a fun weekend with nerds. For others, it's a vice & deep struggle affecting them both mentally and physically. We'll be discussing the alcoholic culture in the PHP community as well as our struggle with weight loss.
Aug 20, 2015•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 27
A live recording from Laracon US in Louisville, Kentucky.
Aug 11, 2015•52 min•Ep. 26
Documentation can make or break a project but it's often completely overlooked until the very end. And if we don't think about how developers will interact with our project before writing our opening php tag, we could end up with a very ugly API. We'll discuss some strategies we can take to improve the overall developer experience with "good" documentation and clean API's
Aug 04, 2015•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 25
We've seen 2 alpha releases of PHP 7 so far and the first beta release became available this past Friday, July 10th. We might not put too much thought into what goes into each release of PHP so for this episode we take a closer look at the release management processes for PHP 7.
Jul 14, 2015•51 min•Ep. 24
So you have a 9-5 job but want to start your own business... where do you start? We discuss what realistic first-steps you'll need to take in order to transform yourself from a PHP employee to PHP entrepreneur.
Jul 09, 2015•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 23
Inspired by a lively Open Spaces session at php|tek 2015, we discuss how PHP's ecosystem could be threatened by a not-so-obvious bus factor and what we can all do to keep things thriving.
Jun 22, 2015•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 22
PSR-7 is the latest accepted member to the PHP FIG's standards library. We discuss what PSR-7 is, how it utilizes streams, immutability & middleware, and how it will affects you as a developer.
Jun 11, 2015•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 21
We discuss an idea for a web app and identify ways to turn it into a real-life product on the web. We start with describing the domain and the problems the app should solve. Then we identify the personas that will interact with the app. We discuss the features features the app should have to fix the problems and we sort all the features by priority. Finally we talk about timeline, deliverables and next steps. The app we discuss will be launched to production by the next airing of this multi-part...
May 28, 2015•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 20
A special live mashup recording with Loosely Coupled from php[tek] in Chicago, IL. We talk #phptek, Open Source, and eat some PSR-7 cake.
May 21, 2015•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 19
We discuss freelancing as a PHP developer, managing client expectations, niches, good customer service, project scope & scope creep, hourly rates vs value based pricing, and whether or not to run a SaaS.
Apr 30, 2015•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 18
A short afterglow discussion about the 2015 F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco, CA & a look at the new Facebook PHP SDK and where it's headed.
Apr 22, 2015•35 min•Ep. 17
We discuss practical ways of dealing with legacy codebases and address the question of, "to rewrite or to refactor"? We also talk about how we should manage client expectations when working with a legacy codebase. And finally we discuss some general strategies for refactoring a codebase to good, clean, modern PHP.
Apr 15, 2015•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 16
You don't need to be a C programmer in order to contribute to PHP internals. We'll be discussing how you can get involved with PHP internals, the GoPHP7-ext project and how you can help get PHP 7 ready for release.
Mar 30, 2015•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 15
Part 2 of an on-going series on open source. We discuss a number of open source topics including what the expectations are for support of an open source project. We also discuss how to use SemVer to successfully maintain an open source package and what we can do when SemVer is not an option. And finally we take a look at licensing and discuss why we need to be concerned with it.
Mar 18, 2015•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 14
A live recording from Midwest PHP in Minneapolis, MN. We talk about developer burn-out, the GoPHP7-ext project, why eval() is bad, the cons of the reflection class and announce the voting phase for an RFC for PHP7.
Mar 14, 2015•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 13
We focus our discussion on two ideologies within the testing realm: test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD). We talk about how these two methodologies bring a unique angle to testing software and how we can use them in tandem in our own PHP projects.
Feb 23, 2015•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 12
A live mashup of PHP Roundtable and PHP Town Hall at Sunshine PHP in Miami, Florida.
Feb 07, 2015•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 11
Accessibility is an important and often overlooked aspect of web development. In this episode we'll discuss why web accessibility is so important and how we can make the web more accessible.
Jan 26, 2015•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 10
ReactJS is not just another JavaScript framework. It's not a replacement for jQuery, Ember or Angular. But it's a library that's got one wild and crazy way to render the DOM using something called JSX. You'll hate it. Then you'll love it. Then you'll be an annoying fan-boy of it.
Jan 19, 2015•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 9
With big security breaches becoming the norm these days, security is something we simply cannot ignore. In this discussion we'll ask the experts how we can become more responsible developers by learning about specific security threats we should be most concerned with.
Jan 12, 2015•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 8
Discussing domain-driven design concepts in PHP.
Jan 05, 2015•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 7
Part one of a multi-part series on open source. Today we discuss open source & code management with a version control system & explore the concept of git-flow.
Dec 16, 2014•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 6
Taylor Otwell & Phil Sturgeon go head-to-head debating all the things.
Oct 30, 2014•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 5
How the sausage is made. Taking a look at PHP's history and where it's going in the future.
Oct 19, 2014•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 4
All about web API's: designing your API with RAML, authentication with OAuth and discussing the hypermedia-constraint (HATEOAS).
Sep 22, 2014•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 3
