This week on Development Hell we brag about how awesome we are via discussion about conference prep as a speaker. How much crap should go on your slides? How do we change our talks for different audiences? What’s our worst presenter experience? We also throw Paul Reinheimer under the bus.

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• Brooklyn Beta
• OSCON
• Open Source Bridge
• Roave Foundation

We are joined by super special guest Arbi Arzoumani, PHP community vet and hardware modding expert. We talk about everything from the Amiga to the Raspberry Pi, with lots of console mods inbetween. Chris gets all excited about building a MAME cabinet, and we chat some about home theater PC stuff with XBMC and Plex. If you’re into hardware stuff, you’re gonna looooooove it.

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• Arbi on Twitter
• Commodore Amiga
• Dreamcast
• Software modding XBox
• PS2 / region locking
• Kodi (was XBMC)
• Plex
• Xbox hack (with clock/dashboard)
• Raspberry Pi
• nmap
• OSMC
• Framemeister Upscaler
• Arcade VGA 5000 Ultimarc
• Xtension Classic Arcade Cocktail Cabinet

So we kinda forgot we recorded this until a month after the fact. Whoops! This ep is all about side projects, kicking off with Chris and Ed talking about CBTTool, Ed’s electronic worksheet for folks with anxiety disorders. Then we discuss Chris' new book The Grumpy Little Book of Hack, and Ed’s experience technical editing Modern PHP by Josh Lockhart. Then we get into a boring discussion about marketing. Plus we have STICKERS!

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• CBTTool
• The Grumpy Little Book of Hack
• Modern PHP

This episode we are joined by PHP whiz kid Anthony Ferrara to discuss recent happenings on PHP Internals, where a productive community member stepped away entirely. We discuss the merits of the proposals (particularly the controversial Scalar Type Hints RFC), and what the PHP community could be doing better to prevent contributor burnout. Also I guess we talked about baby animals…?

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• Anthony Ferrara; on Twitter
• Video Toaster
• Hot Dog HTML editor
• Roave Foundation
• Andrea Faulds post to internals
• Current Scalar Type Hints RFC
• DoOcracy
• Stack Overflow PHP chat room
• Baby Platypus
• Baby Wombat

The PHP Bard himself, Jeremy Lindblom, joins us for much discussion of fun things, like how PHP is used inside Amazon, the upcoming Pacific Northwest PHP Conference (PNWPHP), and what it’s like to be a bard in the age of automation. Also Ed bought a new TV and wrote some music once.

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• Kickstarter for PNWPHP
• Jeremy on Twitter
• The PHP Bard on Twitter
• AWS SDK for PHP
• Amber monitors
• Ed’s music project Dead Agent
• Dead Agent – Retina EP

We’re republishing this episode to (hopefully) get the right episode out to listeners using feeds/podcasting tools. It was originally linked to Ep. 53’s audio, and some podcast aggregators may not get the updated version

Everything old is new again! Sort of! We chatter about Chris' 1% car and how rough it is to upgrade. Then we babble about WebOS, LuneOS, and Ed’s experiences running the Spaz open source project. Chris made some open source stuff once too.

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• BMW Bluetooth Kits
• webOS
• Spaz project
• HP Touchpad
• HP/Palm acquisition
• LuneOS
• OpenCFP
• Matt Stauffer’s Five-Minute Geek Show

Everything old is new again! Sort of! We chatter about Chris' 1% car and how rough it is to upgrade. Then we babble about WebOS, LuneOS, and Ed’s experiences running the Spaz open source project. Chris made some open source stuff once too.

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• BMW Bluetooth Kits
• webOS
• Spaz project
• HP Touchpad
• HP/Palm acquisition
• LuneOS
• OpenCFP
• Matt Stauffer’s Five-Minute Geek Show

Our latest episode was special in two ways: we recorded video of it, and it was a simulcast with our friends at the PHP Town Hall podcast. What great people! They’re still wrong, but that’s okay. We talk about mouthing off in public, whether async features should be built into PHP, and the appropriate ways to encourage people to use current versions of PHP. Then Chris gets mad.

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• API Blueprint
• Apiary
• Dredd
• ReactPHP
• Hack’s Async stuff
• PyroCMS
• IRCmaxell’s blog bost on versions and his follow-up where he is TAKEN ABACK
• CodeIgniter 3.0
• PHP-FIG

Guest-less and listless, Chris and Ed slouch their way back to their studios. Chris talks about the time he tried to murder a disabled woman with his new luxury sedan, we discuss artisanal PHP-Nuke sites, and how we got our local user groups started. Then It really goes off the rails with a discussion of the awesomeness of Dragon Age: Inquistion, and what happens to games and other services that rely on Internet connectivity.

Correction: It looks like Ultima Online and Phantasy Star Online are still up!

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• Mobility scooters
• PHP-Nuke
• GLOSSY
• Toronto PHP
• Dragon Age: Inquisition
• Marvel Puzzle Quest
• Phantasy Star Online
• Ultima Online
• iWeb

On a cold winter’s night in the far north, Chris and Ed recorded a podcast at the True North PHP 2014 hackathon event. It was loud and fun! We’re joined by special guest Ben Ramsey and others to talk about organizing conferences and generally being awesome. Enjoy!

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• TrueNorthPHP