In this Episode Edward Barnard returns to talk with Eric van Johnson and John Congdon about writing columns for the magazine and more. How he got started programming with CRAY supercomputers and then web development first with PERL and then PHP. Rescuing his first article submission from the spam bin. The inspiration and focus for […]

Eric, John and Oscar sit down to go over the June 2020 issue, “Advanced Design & Development”

In this Episode Eric van Johnson and John Congdon talk to Security Corner contributor Eric Mann about keeping your website secure. How a breach sparked his interest in security. The value of tokens and nonces. What area of security needs more attention. How to use end-to-end encryption for communication. Using Linux as your daily driver […]

In this interview, Eric and John talk to Liam Wiltshire about his Machine Learning articles (Part two here) in the April and May 2020 issues of the magazine. Topics Covered How he transitioned from music into building web sites. Speaking at PHP conferences. Using machine learning with PHP and why he wrote this series. Assessing […]

We’re switching our episode format this month. We’re splitting into two episodes: one a discussion of the developer topics from the latest issue and a separate episode will feature an interview with a contributor. In this episode, we talk about the articles in the May 2020 Issue, Unsupervised Learning. Topics Headless Drupal and distributed content stores. […]

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 […]

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 […]

In Episode 29 In the February episode, we dive into the issue Cultivating the Developer Experience and interview Jennifer Schrader. Topics Benefits of structuring code reviews. The value of integration and functional tests. Content management systems in PHP Sulu CMS and its focus on Developer Experience (DX) Jennifer talks about her experiences trying out pair […]

In Episode 28 In this episode for January 2020, we take a look at this month’s issue “New Habits.” This month we’re joined by php[architect] book and magazine author Matthew Turland. Topics Using (or not) PHP arrays to write cleaner code. Learning how browsers render HTML+CSS Talking about writing object-oriented code with Matthew Turland, updating […]

For December 2019, we take a look at this month’s issue “Expedition PHP.” Topics include mental health, migrating PHP frameworks, and contributing to open-source projects.  Our guest this month, Michael Akopov, dives into using Laravel Vapor to deploy serverless applications.