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/dev/hell

Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler

Two angry web developers complain about life in development hell

technology software how-to

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Episode 21: The Grace Hopper Rape Whistle

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2012/10/07

Twenty-one. Like blackjack. Like the gun salute. For those about to rock. We recorded this episode just a few days after #20, because we were able to get Elizabeth Naramore as a super-special secret guest! She talks to us about Codeconnexx, an open source tech and life skills conference in Indianapolis Nov 8-9. We also talked a lot about getting women to submit talks to conferences, including the success that Jan Lehnardt has had in this area with JSConfEU. We then get into Chris’s experiments

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Episode 20: Chris Hartjes's Kitchen Nightmare

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2012/10/01

EPISODE DOS EQUIS! Our 20th show goes out to all the haters. IN YOUR FACE HATERS. This week we talk about how Chris sucks at cooking food, which segues nicely into a discussion of the True North PHP conference that he’s co-organizing in Toronto in November. Thankfully he will not be catering the event himself. We also talk about Ed’s move from doing PHP to Python for day-to-day work, and the plusses and minuses he’s encountered during the transition. If you’re a Superfriend,

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Episode 19: Almost An Apology

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2012/09/17

After some downtime spent taking mental reps, Chris and Ed are back with a vengeance for one of our best shows. Joining us is Chris Shiflett, PHP fellow and security expert. They talk about how we interact with non-techie members of dev teams, what they’re doing with Node, the state of the Canadian soccer program, heavy vs lightweight frameworks, tribalism in programming communities, and the importance of balancing work with life. We also talk to Chris Shiflett about his role as co-founder of

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Episode 18: Pull Requests Welcome

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2012/08/19

This week on /dev/hell is “let’s talk about arguments Chris got into on Twitter” week. Most of the discussion revolves around how we interact with users, both developer-types and average joes. If you value humanity, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 25.3MB, 57:49) Links Ed forgot to save the notes. Welp.

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Episode 17: This Show Is Terrible

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2012/07/25

This week on /dev/hell we talk about mentoring. Chris discusses his experiences taking a young up-and-comer under his wing, and we talk about the PHP Mentoring project. Then we babble about Aspen, an interesting, non-traditional Python web framework. Good and bad stuff in PHP gets knocked around again. Finally, Ed talks about fixing his dryer and yells at the audience. If you love freedom, you’ll do these things: Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here

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Episode 16: Foam Cowboy Hats

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2012/07/07

After a couple weeks off, we get back into the profane swing of things. We kick off with alittle followup on the previous episode on mental illness, but decide to quit bumming everybody out by moving on to cool tech stuff. Ed talks a little about Reaper, a new digital audio workstation he’s using to do production on the podcast. Then we chat about remote pair programming with browser-based editors like Cloud9. Finally we cover Chris' experiences at Lonestar PHP, and what each of us gets out of

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Episode 15: Whack Job Central

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2012/06/18

On today’s Very Special Episode of /dev/hell, we talk about Ed’s struggles with depression and anxiety, and how it’s impacted him as a member of the open source community. Yeah, we know, total buzzkill, but this is important stuff. We hope that by talking about it, folks with similar issues will be more likely to seek help. We’d really like to hear from you about this topic. You can leave us a comment, or send us a link & we’ll collect the responses. Here’s

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Episode 14: The PHP Guy Is Sulking

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2012/06/14

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

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Episode 13: #tek12 or something. I don't know

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2012/06/03

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

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Episode 12: Irish Eyes Are Always Smiling

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2012/05/15

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

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Episode 11: From Gas Station Attendant to Java Developer

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2012/04/27

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

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Episode 10: Looks Like A Lot Of White Dudes

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2012/04/12

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

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Episode 9: I Was Really Into Bigfoot When I Was A Kid

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2012/04/05

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

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Episode 8: Fry Guy, Cleanup in Aisle App

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2012/03/28

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

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Episode 7: You Have Entered A Pants-free Workzone

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2012/03/01

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. Feel free to hit us up on Twitter at @dev_hell or harass Ed and Chris directly. Download now (MP3, 37.5MB, 1:13) Links

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Episode 6: I Do Not Code With My Vagina

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2012/02/16

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. Feel free to hit us up on Twitter or harass Ed and Chris directly. Download now (MP3, 65MB, 1:45) Links

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Episode 5: The Hammer That is PHP

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2012/02/03

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

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Episode 4: The Cool Kids Club

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2012/01/26

Update: Our first posting of this episode had a glitch in it around 14:50. It should be fixed now. If you already have the episode, you should re-download it. Our fourth episode is all ready for your listening pleasure. In this exciting episode we focus on “The Conference Experience” and discuss why programming conferences are so important to developers. Chris talks about why CodeMash was so awesome and the awesome talks full of awesomeness that he attended. Ed talks about his own

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Episode 3: Beatings Will Continue Until Test Coverage...

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2012/01/08

Fresh off our holiday break, we’re back with our longest show yet. We talk about Chris' new book The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide To Building Testable PHP Applications, including his experiences self-publishing with Leanpub. Chris also explains how he fears no precipitation on his excursions to the Codemash conference in Ohio. Then Ed talks about the thought process that lead to his latest shit-stirring blog post “The MicroPHP Manifesto.” Ed may or may not begin crying openly

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Episode 2: Talking Chris Down

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2011/12/21

Doing something the second time is always the toughest, but we somehow managed to get our act together for a second episode of “Development Hell”. Our hosts Chris and Ed got together and discussed whatever was on their minds that night. Thanks to Ed for doing a masterful job of editing the results of using my crappy headset for the conversation. Summary of the show: Git and git workflows Node.js vs. Twisted/Tornado How being opinionated and objective about a topic is impossible Building

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