This time out our Very Special Guest is Sara Goleman, long-time PHP core contributor, author of the only good book on writing extensions for PHP and the driving force behind that open source projects of HipHop for PHP, a virtual machine, runtime and Just-In-Time compiler for PHP that powers much of Facebook’s infrastructure.

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In our usual epic-length conversation we talked about:

• The HipHop Virtual Machine
• The soul-crushing experience of the “PHP internals” mailing list
• Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness Summer Tour
• The TrueNorthPHP Call for Papers opened up and the code is open source
• Discussions about how the three of us find the energy to give a shit about everything
• Alternate books from the Bible
• Comforting sounds to work too
• Finally, how can we tell if Sara is pissed?

Also, as a totally random thing from the show notes, you might want to take a look at Blue Hackers