We’re joined for Episode 51 by Margaret Staples, backend programmer extraordinaire on Brunelleschi: Age of Architects. She shares her experiences doing indie game dev, traveling to the Strangeloop conference, and meeting geeks celebs. We also talk about serial killers and Ed’s new job (obviously).

This is our first episode released in stereo. The file size is larger, but man does it sound better. If you have any issues with playback, let us know.

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Links and Notes

• Margaret Staples' blog
• Margaret on Twitter
• Brunelleschi: Age of Architects
  • Project backing page
• Merchant Prince
• Trade Wars
• Wizardry
• Strangeloop
• Strange Love
• Rich Hickey/Clojure
• Ed Gein
• Beyond The Mat
• Speakers page at TrueNorthPHP
• Ed’s new job

EPISODE FITTY!!!!! Learn the INSIDE SCOOP on THE ORIGINS OF DEVELOPMENT HELL! EXCLUSIVE BEHIND the SCENES ACCESS!!! WE SUMMARIZE HOW CRAPPY ALL THE EPISODES ARE!!! Also how Chris' DNS got haxxored.

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Links and Notes

We basically didn’t write any notes down because we wanted to keep it real.

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Our guest this week is Beth Tucker Long, the editor of PHP Architect magazine and respected PHP language trainer. We talk about her role as editor of the top PHP Magazine in the world, her experiences teaching people to code, the best PHP books for beginners, her awesome upcoming MadisonPHP conference, and XBox Kinect paranoia.

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Links and Notes

• Transmorphers
• Hurcules
• PHP Architect
• Madison PHP Conference
• Bill Cosby Snowball bit
• PHP and MySQL Web Development (Thomson/Welling)
• Larry Ullman’s books
• XBox One Kinetic
• That’s a paddlin'

Our guest this week is Elizabeth Smith, PHP internals veteran and guru of PHP on Windows (she says “I wish every company was as good at giving back to open source as Microsoft”). We talk about being Old as Dirt in relation to a blog post Ed made last week, how to mentor up and coming developers, and the history of PHP on Windows.

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Links and Notes

• Elizabeth Smith’s Website
• The Developer’s Dystopian Future
• My Lawn by Bob Martin
• LinuxBeard.com
• Cygwin
• PHP-GTK
• Windows being really good at concurrency
• Nelson Muntz laugh
• PHPMentoring.org
• Mentats

This time around we are blessed by the presence of Eryn O'Neil, Tech Lead at Clockwork. We talk about the importance of UX for programmers, getting started speaking at conferences, and BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES BEES.

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Links and Notes

• Eryn O'Neil on Twitter
• Eryn would like to make a correction: “80-90% of the world’s almonds come from CA, but only 60% of the US’s bees end up there. IT’S STILL A LOT OF BEES THOUGH.”
• Blues dancing / swing dancing
• Imposter Syndrome
• #phpmentoring on IRC
• Joind.in
• The engineer’s interface
• You Can UX Too: Avoiding the Programmer’s Interface
• The Non-Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice
• Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
• Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks
• Bee beard joe
• The Swarm
• Africanized honey bees
• Drone explodes during copulation
• Terry Tate – Office Linebacker
• This could be us but you playin
• http://beesbeesbees.com/
• Death in fam

php[tek] was once again upon us, so we did our annual live show! Special guest Paul Reinheimer of WonderNetwork joins us for much frivolity!

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Links and Notes

• Paul Reinheimer
• KISS at tek
• CoPilot
• Where’s It Up?
• REM statement
• BYTE magazine
• COMPUTE! Magazine
• Commodore C-64
• VIC-20
• Commodore Datasette
• XHProf and XHProfUI
• Poutine
• Quebec banning religious displays
• French signage laws in Quebec
• Greg Baugues’s talk at tek about hacking convos
• Black Books

This week is all about PERSONAL BRANDING and WEB SCALE with special guest Steve Corona. We talk about Steve’s book Scaling PHP. We also reminisce about the old days of Twitter API dev, until Steve humiliates Ed by not knowing what Spaz was.

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Links and Notes

• Steve Corona on Twitter
• Scaling PHP
• Steve’s web site
• Life360 (now hiring in SF)
• Twitpic
• “Miracle on the hudson” plane crash
• Double vs single quotes in PHP
• Persistent DB connections in PHP
• Shared nothing architecture
• Horizontal vs. vertical scaling
• 12 Factor App
• Applescript CGI, more

This weeks brings us a new guest and a new sponsor! Paddy Foran is an old friend of Chris and Ed’s who makes his first appearance on the show, talking about the Go programming language, software architecture, open source projects, and his new book “Your API is Bad.” We also welcome new sponsor Roave!

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Links and Notes

• Paddy Foran
• Go
• Drama Fever
• Your API is Bad
• 2cloud
• Paddy’s talk at this year’s php[tek]
• Paddy’s blog post about intro to Open Source
• Gorf

Our latest episode features someone who we’re been trying to get on for a while: Josh Lockhart, the developer of the Slim Framework for PHP and the founder of the PHP The Right Way project. We also have a new sponsor in Nude New Relic!

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Links and Notes

• Josh Lockhart
• Slim Framework
• Limonade
• Fat Free Framework
• Sinatra
• Flask
• Recess FW
• Guzzle
• Resty.php
• PHP The Right Way

For episode 42 we are blessed by the wonderful and talented Laura Thomson, Senior Engineering Manager at Mozilla. Laura drops science on managing engineers, Minimum Viable Bureaucracy, HHVM and Hack, and her mid-Atlantic coast accent. This is a must-listen for folks who manage tech teams.

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Links and Notes

• RCS
• PHP and MySQL Web Development (5th Edition)
• Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Video, Slides
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness
• Jeri Ellsworth leaving Steam
• Sara Golemon (is awesome)
• HHVM blog
• Hack for HHVM
• Coffeescript
• Go
• CodeIgniter seeking a new home