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PHP Town Hall

PHP Town Hall is a podcast from Ben Edmunds and Matt Trask that raises questions about current events (or upcoming things) in the PHP community, with different guests each episode.

Development Technology Tech
Update frequency
every 35 days
Average duration
63 minutes
Episodes
82
Years Active
2012 - 2021
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Episode 43: Midnight Express

Episode 43: Midnight Express

Your two favourite PHP developers are joined this episode by Emir Karşıyakalı off of PHPKonf and IstanbulPHP.

Istanbul is not only a beautiful and awesome city, but it’s got a thriving PHP community…

00:23:22  |   Fri 12 Jun 2015
Episode 42: Paul and Vance

Episode 42: Paul and Vance

After a little hiatus Phil and Ben back at it, joined this time by Paul Dragoonis and Vance Lucas.

Paul does some fairly call stuff, manages the PPI framework and contributes to building the actual

01:04:51  |   Sat 23 May 2015
Episode 41: Loosely Town Hall - Dallas Edition

Episode 41: Loosely Town Hall - Dallas Edition

This episode is brought to you from thunderstruck Dallas, as part of the awesome conference that is Lone Star PHP. We are joined once again by the dynamic duo Jeff Carouth and Matt Frost off of the L…

01:05:38  |   Sun 19 Apr 2015
Episode 40: Return of the Ferrara

Episode 40: Return of the Ferrara

Regular guest Anthony Ferrara joins us “in the studio” to talk about the new version of his scalar type hints, which since recording - a f**king month ago - has been accepted for PHP 7.

We thought i…

01:24:33  |   Sat 21 Mar 2015
Episode 39: Hi Josh!

Episode 39: Hi Josh!

Phil and Ben catch up with Josh Lockhart who has been on the show a few times before.

Josh is involved in some great projects and interested in some new tools, which all kinda wind in together. PHP,…

00:54:09  |   Thu 12 Mar 2015
Episode 37: Sunshine Round-Hall? Town-Table?

Episode 37: Sunshine Round-Hall? Town-Table?

We all know that SunshinePHP is one of the PHP communities finest conferences. It attends an amazing group of people, wonderful speakers and Rasmus usually pops in for a drive-by-keynote.

Every conf…

01:13:23  |   Sun 08 Feb 2015
Episode 36: PSR-7 and The World of Tomorrow

Episode 36: PSR-7 and The World of Tomorrow

Two awesome guests join this week, from two different framework projects, both who have been very vocal about their interest in PSR-7: HTTP Message. These two chaps were Hari K T and Matthew Weier O’…

00:52:39  |   Tue 03 Feb 2015
Episode 34: /dev/hell Mashup

Episode 34: /dev/hell Mashup

This is a big one. We’ve had Chris “The Grumpy Programmer” Hartjes and Ed “The Grumpy Podcaster” Finkler on our show before, but this time they both join us for a mashup!

We talk about the perils of…

01:33:08  |   Fri 09 Jan 2015
Episode 35: Developer to CTO and Back

Episode 35: Developer to CTO and Back

The grass is always greener on the other side, but we have a little talk with Gary Hockin and regular guest Jacques Woodcock about the pros and cons of going up and down the chain of command in the d…

01:21:54  |   Fri 09 Jan 2015
Episode 33: CakePHP, Monga and RFCs

Episode 33: CakePHP, Monga and RFCs

This episode we’re joined by two two top CakePHPers Jose Diaz-Gonzalez and Bryan Crowe.

Ben is AWOL, Phil is insanely jet-lagged and has no idea what he is talking about. Our awesome guests try thei…

00:51:19  |   Wed 19 Nov 2014
Episode 32: Ben and Phil Catch Up

Episode 32: Ben and Phil Catch Up

This week Ben and Phil take some time to catch up on each others lives and let you listen in. Ben doesn’t remember how to code. Phil is leaving PHP for Rails. They’re both moving again.

Since we …

01:02:37  |   Tue 04 Nov 2014
Episode 31: The One about Hot Dogs

Episode 31: The One about Hot Dogs

This week Ben and Phil are joined last minute by repeat guests Kayla Daniels and Matt Frost.

We talk waaaaay too much about hotdogs, Phil’s fun-employment, cocaine, and what’s new in PHP-land.

The …

00:47:10  |   Fri 17 Oct 2014
Episode 30: Specs, Implementations, and New Engines OH MY!

Episode 30: Specs, Implementations, and New Engines OH MY!

This week Ben and Phil are joined by core PHP developer extraordinaires Andrea Faulds and Levi Morrison.

We discuss the new PHP engine spec, various RFCs, and all things internals. Also PHP 6 is of…

01:14:57  |   Tue 26 Aug 2014
Episode 29: Dont Mention PHP 6 v PHP 7

Episode 29: Dont Mention PHP 6 v PHP 7

This week Ben and Phil are joined by long distance target shooter Paul M. Jones and the handsome man that is Daniel Lowrey, to talk about a whole bunch of PHP relating things.

Paul has recently been…

01:19:35  |   Wed 30 Jul 2014
Episode 28: Loosley Coupled Mashup

Episode 28: Loosley Coupled Mashup

In this episode, Ben and Phil join forces with Loosely Coupled to talk about Open Source, burn out and briefly discuss their favorite open source projects. Jeff was out of action for a lot of it due …

01:54:25  |   Thu 10 Jul 2014
Episode 27: Josh Lockhart and Jeremy Mikola

Episode 27: Josh Lockhart and Jeremy Mikola

This episode is a long one, but we are back to improved audio and the video is not just one dude eating pzza for an hour. Josh Lockhart of PHP The Right Way and Slim fame, and Jeremy Mikola who is we…

01:32:14  |   Sun 29 Jun 2014
Episode 26: Hello Front Range!

Episode 26: Hello Front Range!

The Front Range PHP user-group joins the show as a live audience for the episode 26, in a new crazy bonus format which Phil thought might be fun. The idea of the episode is for people to generally pi…

00:53:26  |   Wed 18 Jun 2014
Episode 25: Girls Aren't Any Different

Episode 25: Girls Aren't Any Different

Talking about feminism in tech is always difficult. This episode was quite a heated discussion with Kayla Daniels and Jessica D’Amico discussing their opinions about women-orientated groups such as P…

00:54:37  |   Wed 28 May 2014
Episode 24: But is it Web Scale?

Episode 24: But is it Web Scale?

This week Ben Edmunds calls in from Portland and Phil Sturgeon calls in from THE FUTURE. They are joined by Steve Corona to discuss Scaling PHP.

Most of this conversation centers around Phil and Be…

01:35:16  |   Wed 14 May 2014
Episode 23: VirtPHP - Managing your Herd of ElePHPants

Episode 23: VirtPHP - Managing your Herd of ElePHPants

This week Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon are joined by Jacques Woodcock and Jordan Kasper to discuss virtPHP.

virtPHP is a tool for managing multiple environments on your development machine. It is …

01:19:52  |   Thu 10 Apr 2014
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