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Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler

Two angry web developers complain about life in development hell

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Episode 41: Let Me Wet My Beak

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2014/03/10

This week we’re joined by David Rogers, aka @al_the_x, to hear how he’s teaching PHP in college courses for brand-new progammers. We also talk about what possessed Ed to develop his own unit testing framework. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 36.2MB, 1:21:23) Links and Notes Fictive Kin Ruby on Rails developer course PyTennessee Article (promotional) on “the two week problem”

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Episode 40: Poly Life Mentoring

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2014/02/28

The big four-oh hits us, this time with our special Fictive Kin friend Sean Coates. We talk lots about deploying web applications in various languages, the imapct Composer has had on PHP development, formal and informal mentoring, and how to get accepted to speak at conferences. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 32.1MB, 1:09:20) Links and Notes Fictive Kin Calvin & Hobbes transmogrifier RVM + Bundler

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Episode 39: Animal Style

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2014/02/20

Okay, first off, this episode sounds like crap. We weren’t really prepared to record and used half-assed equipment and stuff. Sorry guys. It should at least be listenable. Anyway, this was recorded the night before SkiPHP started, which was an awesome PHP conference in Salt Lake City. We ramble about a lot of stuff, including our first conferences, America’s first serial killer, our approaches for giving talks, and Chris' secret identity. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and

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Episode 38: Dark Secret Branding

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2013/11/21

In this podcast recorded AFTER True North PHP, Chris and Ed are joined by the esteemed Jonathan Snook, web developer extraordinaire. We talk about the heady days of Twitter app dev, how Jonathan got to be a Big Deal, and why there are so many Snooks in web dev. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 26.5MB, 59:40) Links and Notes Remembrance Day Hardcore History podcast Dark Secret Place Spaz Snook’s

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Episode 37: Jets vs Sharks

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2013/11/20

In this podcast recorded before True North PHP, we talk to Paul M Jones, creator of the Solar framework and Aura component library. Lots of stuff about confusing things like dependency injection and human behavior in tribes. Probably someone will get mad about this episode. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 27.9MB, 1:02:24) Links and Notes Aura Service Injection/DI/whatev RequireJS MWOP Laravel RAP BEEF

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Episode 36: Maybe PHP Isn't As Lame As We Thought

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2013/10/29

So our pace is a little slower due to work crap, but DEV HELL LIVES. Episode 6d6 kicks off with us waxing about what’s exciting in PHP development nowadays. We also talk about upcoming appearances at TrueNorth PHP, NomadPHP and SkiPHP. Then we get into the discussion of alcohol consumption at tech conferences, and malware on the PHP.net site. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 25.7MB, 55:08) Links

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Episode 35: Summer of Funksanity

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2013/09/20

FINALLY! We’re back from the Summer of Funksanity hiatus with a new show. We talk about Ed’s speaking tour stops at OSCON, Distill, and Madison Ruby. We also discuss the exciting new mental illness awareness campaign Engine Yard has started, called Prompt. PHP Internals jabbering gets touched on a little, and Chris’s softball league. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 27.3MB, 55:09) Links

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Episode 34: Is Sara Pissed?

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2013/07/17

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. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 29MB, 1:05:09) Links and Notes In our

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Episode 33: Pol Pot-level Sucks

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2013/06/13

Back in the saddle for the double-tres, Chris and Ed rap about the loss of trust in Google and how that affects their perception of the Go language. Then Ed babbles for way too long about vintage gaming and computing. Chris wonders how you could be truly private on the Internet in the light of widespread government surveillance. Finally, we talk about the importance of automation and repeatable processes. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on

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Episode 31: Feline Tooth Extraction

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2013/04/24

Short notes time: In this episode, Chris and Ed talk about conferences we always wanted to go to, and languages & tools we’d thought we’d hate and turned out to like. Then Ed waxes on the Open Recipes project. Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on Facebook here Listen Download now (MP3, 29.5MB, 1:05:27) Links and Notes PHP Matsuri PyCon OSCON StrangeLoop NAMM Summer CES (Nintendo JACKIN' Sony) LambdaJam Aspen – Discussion of on Episode 17 No-Framework

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Episode 30: It's Episode 30, you guys

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2013/03/29

In our action-packed 30th episode Ed and Chris discussed their experiences with JavaScript testing tools, specifically how certain tools push you towards specific refactoring patterns. Chris talked about the successful launch of his latest book on using PHPUnit and got into some honest talk about revenue and how the product development course helped him make this book do 4 times the launch day revenue of his previous one. Ed discussed his plans to talk about mental illness on the conference circuit

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Episode 29: Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions

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2013/03/07

Being totally out of ideas, we turned things over to our legions of fans who joined us on IRC. Lots of interesting questions, and people learned what Ed thought was horseshit. Special thanks to Joel Clermont for killing the show with this joke: Q: “What’s the difference between a junior and senior developer?” A: “$40k” If you’re interested in sponsoring Development Hell, let us know! Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on Facebook here Listen

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Episode 28: Canadian Twinkie Smuggler

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2013/02/16

You can blame Chris’s tomfoolery for how crappy he sounds, because his computer pooped all over himself and he had to call in on his iPhone. Nevertheless, we were able to discuss in detail the smuggling of mass-produced pastries of the Twinkie and Tastykake varieties. We also get framework security in the context of recent Rails vulnerabilities, and how PHP developers seem to have a heightened awareness of potential vulnerabilities. Ed’s details his experiences starting a local user

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Episode 27: Artisan Database Administration

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2013/01/23

This episode marks a return, both for special guest Selena Deckelmann, and our special hand-made artisan podcasting. Know that this episode was made with locally-sourced bytes, harvested with care and respect for the Earth. We talk with Selena about working at Mozilla, her switch to Linux on the desktop, and how marketing is weightier than merit in determining a product’s success. This episode’s super-special sponsor is EasyBib! They are looking for junior and senior PHP devs to work on

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Episode 26: Sassy!

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2013/01/17

The first episode of 2013 find Chris and Ed talking about the tragedy of Aaron Swartzs' suicide, both in the context of governmental power and mental illness. We also talk about Ed’s favorite (and only tolerable) Apple-related podcast ending. Finally, Ed rambles about SASS, a superset of CSS3 that makes writing CSS less painful. We have a new sponsor! EasyBib is looking for junior and senior PHP devs to work on their awesome academic web app. Check out the job description and email stuff to

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Episode 25: Quarter Century

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2012/12/21

It has now been 25 times that Ed and Chris have fired up Skype and talked to each other and some friends, old and new, about whatever the hell they felt like talking about. They would keep doing this even if nobody else listened, because developer misery loves company. Thank you to everyone who has been listening to us work out our own issues with the technologies that help shovel money into our bank accounts. In this episode Ed talked about his experiences at CodeConnex, Chris tried to goad Ed into

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Episode 24: Members Only

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2012/12/14

Special guest Matt Turland joins us for episode 24, and tells us how much of an asshole Chris is in real life. We also talk a lot about team development processes, including ramping up new hires, documenting processes, and workflow tools. Lots of super smart stuff that we’re usually too lazy to do. If you’re the corncob on our picnic plate, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Engine Yard Rate us on iTunes here Follow us on Twitter here. Like us on

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Episode 23 redux

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2012/11/28

Well crap. Episode 23 had a bad edit screwup in it, and the last 30m was basically unlistenable. This has been corrected below and at the original URL. For notes and comments, see the original post. Listen Download now (MP3, 40.1MB, 1:30:00)

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Episode 23: The Bozo Brush

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2012/11/26

UPDATE Nov 28 2012: We fixed a bad error in the original audio file. Please re-download to get the corrected file Episode 23 is packed chock-full of awesome guests. We talk about the controversy around the cancellation of BritRuby, and the larger issues of diversity and inclusiveness at tech conferences, with Ashe Dryden and Reg Braithwaite. We also get into the goofiness of Star Trek and the wonder of railroad games. If you’re the soul in the software, you’ll do these things: Check out

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Episode 22: Object-Oriented Home Renovation

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2012/10/25

We hit the Double Deuce this week with special guest Jim Gay. Jim is the author of Clean Ruby, the upcoming book that applies “Data, Context and Interaction” (DCI) concepts to Ruby and Rails development. Jim is clearly much smarter than us, so we took this opportunity to attack him mercilessly as a representative of the sexist Ruby community. Jim also shares his experiences as a self-published author. In addition, we talk about how True North PHP planning is going for Chris, and

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