Through a haze of jägerbombs and extreme fatigue, we were able to shovel out another pile of podcast for your listening enjoyment. Chris says it’s episode 11 when it’s actually episode 12, but hey! This week we talk about:

• Apple’s magical devices, and what’s holding back Android from being comparable
• How Rackspace completely and repeatedly dropped the ball
• Fun times with Python, and the value of defining guiding principles in an open source project

Here’s your homework for this week:

• You should follow us on Twitter here.
• You should rate us on iTunes here

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Links

• Our buddy Brian Deshong
• tek12
• Getting Started with Python on Heroku/Cedar
• pip
• virtualenv
• If it’s gonna be that kinda party…
• Apps Chris uses on his iPad for code reviews: Join.me, Teamspeak
• Chris’ Flask app on github (lies I told my kid)

This time out we are blessed by the presence of Joël Perras, PHP developer extraordinaire and Fictive Kin brosef of Ed. We explore Joël’s rags-to-riches story: a young academic schlepping coffee and 44oz soft drinks at a gas station, where he’s discovered by a grizzled dev team manager in need of Java skills. From there it’s been a whirlwind of web sites, programming languages, and more ops than you can shake a stick at.

Actually I was sleepy and wasn’t really listening for the first half-hour. I bet it’s good though.

Feel free to hit us up on Twitter at @dev_hell or harass Ed and Chris directly.

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Links

• Joël on Twitter
• Vim Adventures
• MATLAB
• Flask
• Photos from OINK-PUG Meetup on April 19, 2012
• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• Engine Yard blog post on Vagrant
• Puppet
• Sublime Text 2
• CakePHP
• Lithium

No guest would permit themselves to be shamed in the typical /dev/hell manner this week, so this time around you’re stuck with the gruesome twosome. We hit on a few topical topics in this episode, including a dude scoring Internet Ego Points for saying PHP sucks (really?), the “technology preview” of Meteor (no, not that Meteor), and an Important Startup Guy who says that remote working is baaaaaaad. Plus we say “horseshit” a lot.

Thanks again to our awesome sponsor for this episode Engine Yard. You’re the most specialist.

Feel free to hit us up on Twitter at @dev_hell or harass Ed and Chris directly.

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Links

• Engine Yard encourages you to drink a lot at web dev conferences
• I’m not linking to that ranty “PHP sucks” post. Google it. A couple decent response articles from Anthony Ferrara and Brandon Savage, though.
• OINK-PUG Meetup on April 19, 2012
• WhiskyWeb
• Meteor
• Herp Derp Remote Working Is Bad

This episode had us diving into the real-time web with Nathan Fritz, the Chief Architect for &yet, and the man who has foolishly agreed to help Chris learn the finer points of Node.js. You can just hear the excitement in all our voices as we discuss Web 3.14159 aka the Real Time Web. Nathan is one smart motherfucker so be prepared to have lots of knowledge exploded into your brain.

Nathan also discusses his previous life as a PHP guy, what XMPP is all about, and his book-in-progress on Lua scripting in Redis.

Thanks again to our awesome sponsor for this episode Engine Yard. Don’t worry, we’ll spend your sponsorship money wisely.

Feel free to hit us up on Twitter at @dev_hell or harass Ed and Chris directly.

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Links

• Engine Yard is a most-delightful PaaS company and happy sponsor of this episode
• Lua is supported as a scripting language in Redis
• Thoonk
• Nathan learned to hate a certain subset of programmers via his work on an XMPP library he wrote in PHP
• 0MQ
• Tornado and Twisted are two Python event-driven networking frameworks
• Eventmachine is a Ruby event-driven networking frameworks
• Mozilla Developers Network is Nathan’s go-to choice for information about JavaScript

First off, we now have a sponsor for the podcast: Engine Yard. This is something they will surely regret after listening to this episode.

We started off with the idea of talking about technologies we wish we had time to play with. Ed was talking about his attempts at exploring Clojure, and how it’s likely he’ll be using Python for work in the near future. This leads into a discussion of what attracts us to certain languages and technologies, and when to try to work a personal interest in to your day job. Then Chris talks about how he will likely mess around with evented stuff like Node.js or Twisted for his next book about HTTP APIs or whatever.

We also go off on a discussion about HTPC stuff. I can’t really remember how we got there.

In reality we mostly bullshitted through the whole thing, and made fun of Engine Yard a bunch. Hopefully they know that they have awesome products and don’t hate us now.

Feel free to hit us up on Twitter at @dev_hell or harass Ed and Chris directly.

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Links

• Engine Yard Video
• Engine Yard’s Orchestra product
• Clojure
• Kohana
• Node.js
• Twisted
• Gunicorn
• WSGI
• MIT
• Fry Guy (actually “The Fry Kids”)
• HTPC
• XBMC
• Raspberry Pi
• Paleo Diet

This week the gruesome twosome talk about working remotely:

• the tools you need to make it work
• the problems of being the Remote Guy when everyone else is local
• techniques for staying focused
• being a goddamn adult and GTTFD
• why a company should invest the time in being remote-friendly

Chris also talks a bit about his new gig at Kaplan, where he’ll surely make grown men cry.

Feel free to hit us up on Twitter at @dev_hell or harass Ed and Chris directly.

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Links

• Kaplan Professional Schools
• Self Control for Ubuntu and OS X

Suffragettes rejoice because we have our first female guest. Selena Deckelmann bullied her way onto the show to talk with us about Postgres, her lack of real Perl skills, Open Source Bridge and women in open source and technology in general. She also proved that cheap laughs are always possible by picking on Canadians. Also, how awesome it is that she shares a birthday with a famous NFL player.

Feel free to hit us up on Twitter or harass Ed and Chris directly.

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Links

• Selena’s company is working on Checkmarkable
• Postgres
• Jifty
• Catalyst
• Batman.js
• Open Source Bridge
• Where meritocracy fails
• Ickey Woods
• “What’s up with the mounties”

In our fifth episode we speak to our first ever guest Brian Moon, ancient PHP elder of dealnews and someone who has probably forgotten more about PHP than our two hosts will ever know. Chris admires his stamina for staying with the same employer for 14 years and counting.

In this episode we talk about dealnews, how they use PHP (and how they also use it in some interesting ways), and his thoughts on issues like concurrency and evented systems. We also cover features of PHP that allowed for some major changes and approaches they used in the code base for the site.

Feel free to hit us up on Twitter or harras Ed and Chris directly.

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Links

• Node.js
• Evented programming in PHP
• Gearman
• Brian’s customized native Gearman library
• Brian’s Gearman Manager
• Squid
• Varnish
• Building PHP extension

Update: Our first posting of this episode had a glitch in it around 14:50. It should be fixed now. If you already have the episode, you should re-download it.

Our fourth episode is all ready for your listening pleasure. In this exciting episode we focus on “The Conference Experience” and discuss why programming conferences are so important to developers. Chris talks about why CodeMash was so awesome and the awesome talks full of awesomeness that he attended. Ed talks about his own experiences with speaking and attending conferences, complete with a total derail by Chris on why a certain conference rubbed him the wrong way.

Oh yeah, you also find out our opinions on what constitutes a “well-written PHP application”. I’m sure you will be surprised by our answers.

As always, we welcome your feedback. You can always hit us up on Twitter where we love to read what you say and promptly ignore it or privately mock it.

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Links

• Capistrano
• Phing
• Whiskey Disk
• CodeMash
• JSConf
• OSCON
• Brooklyn Beta

Fresh off our holiday break, we’re back with our longest show yet. We talk about Chris’ new book The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide To Building Testable PHP Applications, including his experiences self-publishing with Leanpub. Chris also explains how he fears no precipitation on his excursions to the Codemash conference in Ohio. Then Ed talks about the thought process that lead to his latest shit-stirring blog post ”The MicroPHP Manifesto.” Ed may or may not begin crying openly. Finally, we discuss when it might be necessary to trash your existing application and rewrite it.

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Links

• The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide To Building Testable PHP Applications
• Refactoring Legacy Applications Using CakePHP
• The Codemash Conference
• Wisconsin Dells
• The MicroPHP Manifesto – web site
• Slim
• Moontoast
• FictiveKin