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Sulking Spiderman by kenjonbro — **Episode 14: The PHP Guy Is Sulking** Jun 14, 2012
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This week we’re joined by Justin Searls, JavaScript developer and JS testing EXPERT. We talk lots about building and testing “fat” browser apps, particularly about best practices and different testing approaches. After a while Chris felt bad and told us to shut up.

This was the first podcast we broadcast live while recording. Big ups to WonderNetwork for providing the streaming bandwidth, and Engine Yard for sponsoring the podcast. Keep an eye on the @dev_hell Twitter account for info on our next live stream.

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TestDouble

training.gaslightsoftware.com

Backbone

Idiomatic JS

Require.js

Jasmine

Cucumber

Behat

Michael Feathers book on working with legacy code

Rails asset pipeline

Dieter for Clojure

Kohana Assets

Assetic

Webassets for Python

Drumkit.js by Chris Powers

QUnit

Searls on GitHub

https://github.com/searls/jasmine-fixture

https://github.com/searls/jasmine-given

https://github.com/searls/jasmine-stealth

Pro JavaScript (John Resig)

Coding in the lobby by Michelangelo van Dam — **Episode 13: #tek12 or something. I don't know** Jun 03, 2012
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This episode was recorded at the tek12 uncon in front of a live studio audience. We talk about pair programming, what we’d recommend to folks who want to start programming, the PHP-FIG & PSRs, and our favorite events from tek12. Also Chris punched Ed a couple times. It hurt.

Video hosting for this episode is provided by WonderNetwork, who generate some really cool ping data.

This was lots of fun, and we want to thank all the folks who came out and participated.

Extra special big thanks to Michelangelo Van Dam for lending us his audio recording hardware, and Cal Evans for recording the video!

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tek12

Remote Pair Programming blog

PHP-FIG discussion group

PHP-FIG standards repo

WonderNetwork

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling by Timothy Valentine — **Episode 12: Irish Eyes Are Always Smiling** May 14, 2012
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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:

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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)

Empty Pockets by Terry Johnston — **Episode 11: From Gas Station Attendant to Java Developer** Apr 26, 2012
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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.

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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

Businessmen from Tyler — **Episode 10: Looks Like A Lot Of White Dudes** Apr 11, 2012
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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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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

A Bigfoot Impression — **Episode 9: I Was Really Into Bigfoot When I Was A Kid** Apr 05, 2012
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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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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

fry guy 4 tutter — **Episode 8: Fry Guy, Cleanup in Aisle App** Mar 28, 2012
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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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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

TVBGone - 15 — **Episode 7: You Have Entered A Pants-free Workzone** Feb 29, 2012
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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.

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Kaplan Professional Schools

Self Control for Ubuntu and OS X

**Episode 6: I Do Not Code With My Vagina** Feb 16, 2012
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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.

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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”

Episode 5: The Hammer That is PHP Feb 03, 2012

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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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