PHP Town Hall

Ben Edmunds, Phil Sturgeon

A podcast for developers who want to keep up to date with the latest random happenings in the PHP community but it's really more about general software development topics.

  • 37 minutes 37 seconds
    Here lies dynamic properties. They were good properties Brent.

    Matt and Ben are joined by Colin O'Dell, staff engineer at Wayfair and supporter of the twitter dividing Dynamic Properties RFC to discuss what this RFC really means for PHP going forward and if its really a good idea. They also talk to Colin about what its like to change jobs after a long tenure (13 years) at his previous job, what he likes and doesn't like about using a Mac for a daily work computer and also managing one of the biggest OSS libraries for PHP: CommonMark.

    Show Notes:

    Deprecate Dynamic Properties RFC
    Colin on Twitter
    Colin's blog
    Reference to the good dogs big

    14 December 2021, 5:39 pm
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Episode 83: A catch up and a car crash

    Ben and Matt catch up since its been a minute since it's just the two of them have talked. They talk all kinds of things about life, conferences, getting hit by a car and how to best impersonate Chuck Norris style rolls.

    27 October 2021, 10:09 pm
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Episode 82: Another UUID bites the dust.

    Ben and Matt are joined by Ben Ramsey to talk about what it like being in charge of PHP 8.1, his new gig at Skillshare and we ponder the question: do all good uuids go to heaven?

    Links:

    1 August 2021, 12:00 am
  • 53 minutes 43 seconds
    Episode 81: The Book of Psalm

    Matt and Ben are joined by PsalmPHP author and maintainer Matthew Brown to talk about static analysis, open source maintanence, how he and Ondrej Mirtes made a nice contribution to the PHP Coore and how to get Matthew out to more conferences so people can buy him the beers he so rightfully deserves.

    Show Notes:

    Psalm Matthew on Twitter

    9 June 2021, 12:00 am
  • 47 minutes 3 seconds
    Episode 80: Belles Of The Ball

    Matt and Ben are joined by the founder of Larabelles community Zuzana Kunckova to talk about why communities are so crucial to developer growth, what it takes to start a comnmunity and why Zuzana started Larabelles. We then dive into how she got her start as a developer, where her career has taken her and what is gonna happen with conferences after this whole covid thing is over.

    Show Notes:

    LarabellesPHP Zuzana on Twitter

    21 March 2021, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Episode 79: Fell In Love With A Tree: The Phil Sturgeon Story

    Ben and Matt sit down to talk to Phil Sturgeon… yes that Phil Sturgeon for their once every 2 year check in with the former host of this very podcast. They talk about what it’s like to bikepack across Europe during working hours, how Phil knew what issues needed to be addressed immediately and which he could push off to later and then they talk about his current project which involves APIs and trees.

    Links:

    https://protect.earth - Trees foundation Phil is involved with https://twitter.com/philsturgeon - Phil’s place on the internet https://apisyouwonthate.com - Phil and Matt’s other project

    9 March 2021, 12:00 am
  • 53 minutes 38 seconds
    Episode 78: Into The Woodchipper

    Matt and Ben are joined by Chris Fidao (who watched with horror as Matt butchered his last name). The conversation takes a deep dive into how Chris and Dave Hemphill built ChipperCI include the why, the how and what were some of the fun challenges to building a CI service. We talked briefly about how Chris found good use cases for Golang, but Chris still loves PHP.

    Links:

    https://twitter.com/fideloper - Chris Fidao on Twitter https://twitter.com/davidhemphill - David Hemphill on Twitter https://chipperci.com https://serversforhackers.com

    11 November 2020, 12:00 am
  • 49 minutes 47 seconds
    Episode 77: Lets be Frank

    Matt and Ben are joined by the League of Extraordinary Packages chief benevolent dictator for life Frank De Jonge (@frankdejonge. Its pronounced “de-yong”, not like how Matt pronounced it. He is sorry). We talk about Frank’s contributions to the League, and how it makes him feel to have a package download count in the 8 digits. Frank also talks about his work on Eventsauce (eventsauce.io) an event driven framework that integrates well into most PHP projects.

    2 September 2020, 12:00 am
  • 48 minutes 37 seconds
    Episode 76: Mad Max DevRel

    The Twilio crew, bored because they can’t go to conferences to show people the cool shit you can build with their APIs, take over the podcast to talk about life as a grounded devrel. Matt is joined by Margaret Staples (@dead_lugosi), Gary Hockin (@geeh) and back to back guest Marcus Battle (@themarcusbattle). We discuss the Twilio Quest project and how Twilio is leveraging new ways for their dev rels to get their brand out there. We also talk about what we miss most about not being able to go to conferences and drink with friends. It got a little dark there. Sorry. Enjoy!

    22 July 2020, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Episode 75: Battle of the Frameworks

    Matt and Ben are joined by Marcus Battle to talk about his career path from being a data nerd at WebDev Studios to being a content creator and curator at Twilio. We talk about how much work is involved being a total grammar junky, and does Marcus get early access to things like the supposed Twilio Pigeon API. We also talk about the coveted Twilio swag from back in the days where we were allowed to go to conferences. Then we nerd out about music for a minute.

    Show Notes:

    Twilio PHP SDK

    30 June 2020, 12:00 am
  • 44 minutes 2 seconds
    Episode 74: Composer Self Update

    Matt Trask and Ben Edmunds are joined by Jordi Bggiano and Nils Adermann to celebrate Composer finally figuring out how to self invoke its own composer self-upgrade command. We discuss the origins of the project, how they deal with the fame they have found, how they run their business and OSS project and how people who like the project can help give back!

    Show Notes:

    Packagist/Composer Blog

    29 April 2020, 12:00 am
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