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PHP 8, Git Poductivity, and Resolutions

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Listen to Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the articles in the December 2020 issue, PHP 8 Bits and Git

Topics Covered

  • OSMI 2020 Mental Health in Tech Survey.
  • Features in PHP 8 we’re looking forward to using, like constructor property promotion and named arguments.
  • Being more productive with Git, aliases, and hooks.
  • Using the circuit breaker pattern.
  • Andreas Heigl and PHP documentation project.
  • and more (as usual)

 

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Type hints, SOLID programming, burn out, and more

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Listen to Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the articles in the November 2020 issue, SOLID Foundations

Topics Covered

  • OSMI 2020 Mental Health in Tech Survey.
  • Practical uses for scalar type hints in PHP.
  • SOLID principles for programming.
  • The peculiarities of floating point math and handling money calculations as a result.
  • Using locks to prevent race conditions.
  • Podcasts to listen to related to PHP and web development.
  • Using __debugInfo() to keep secrets safe.
  • Preventing burn out.
  • and more (as usual)

 

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Machine Learning, OpenAPI, and the Business of PHP

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In Episode 31

This month, we chat with Sherri Wheeler about the Business of PHP and other topics from the April 2020 magazine.

Topics

  • Getting started using machine learning with PHP.
  • API design and how the OpenAPI can automate and improve your architecture.
  • Writing command line scripts with Symfony’s Console components.
  • PHP communities that don’t realize it and the business case for PHP 7
  • What makes up a web request

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Magento’s Evolution, Ecommerce, Development Environments, and Enterprise Software.

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In Episode 30

In this episode, we dive into How Magento is Evolving and chat with Magento evangelist Ben Marks.

Topics

  • The free magazine issue courtesy of Adobe and Magento.
  • An interview with Ben Marks on how Magento went from an open-source project to its acquisition, the value of the community and ecosystem, how Magento 2 changed the landscape, how to get started working with the platform, and the future.
  • Approaches for updating legacy codebases.
  • Using asynchronous processes.
  • How stepping away can help you when you’re stuck on a problem.
  • Options for setting up development environments for a project.
  • What exactly the term “Enterprise Software” means.

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Object Oriented Programming, PHP 7.4, CPP extensions with Lochemem Bruno Michael, and Dependency Injection

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In Episode 26

Just before the Thanksgiving holidays in the United States, we reviewed the November 2019 issue “Object Orientation.”

Topics

  • Evolution of object-oriented programing in PHP and understanding how to use objects effectively.
  • Avoiding career stagnation and networking at conferences and user groups.
  • PHP 7.4’s release and what features we’re looking forwards to.
  • Eric becomes the new Community Corner contributor.
  • Chatting about building PHP extensions and CouchDB wiith Lochemem Bruno Michael.
  • Thinking like a computer (sometimes too much?) and the value of abstractions.
  • Understanding Dependency Injection and how to get it to “click.”
  • The value of frameworks versus “plain” PHP.

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Puphpeteer, 25 Years of PHP, and Joe Ferguson

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In Episode 24

Eric, John, and Oscar discuss some of the articles in the September 2019 issue “Master of Puppets”.

Topics

  • History of PHP, celebrating “25 Years of PHP”, and the Impact Awards at php[world]
  • Using Puphpeteer to automate Chromium browser tasks and testing.
  • Code style, and refactoring legacy code.
  • Code editors from VIM (and why Eric thinks everyone must learn it) to PHPStorm and Visual Studio Code.
  • Promoting speaker diversity at conferences.
  • Joe Ferguson joins to chat about generating PDFs with PHP, networking via user groups and conferences, migrating to Laravel 6, Homestead, and Open Sourcing Mental Illness (osmi.org).

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