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This episode Ben and Phil are joined by Lee Tengum, who has sold more apps

than Phil and Ben have even thought of. He founded Pancake Payments which has

been featured in Inc. Magazine and is doing very well in the very crowded sector of invoice, time-tracking

and basic project management. Lee also works as a freelance developer for local companies in the “city”

of Cranbrook, BC, Canadia.

We got Lee on to share some of his success stories of building small, simple, useful products that do not

try to be the next Facebook but make good money and help him keep his family in food, maple syrup and hockey

gear. Making one application that sells for a bazillion dollars is fairly unlikely, so Lee tries to build

“mortgage payments” instead, shipping early, iterating fast, bootstrapping the process and focusing on revenue

from a very early point.

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div style=margin-top: 1exa href=http://http://www.zjjv.com///blog/post/218-More-New-Features-for-PHP-56–Lately-in-PHP-podcast-episode-40.htmlMore New Features for PHP 5.6 – Lately in PHP podcast episode 40/a/div

div style=margin-top: 1exBy Manuel Lemos/a/div

div style=margin-top: 1exThe proposals of new features for PHP 5.6 continue to come. Several new interesting features are being discussed like named parameters, anonymous classes, nested classes, among other proposals.br /

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This was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in episode 40 of the Lately in PHP podcast.br /

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Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn what are all the new proposed features and what they think about them./a/div

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Some episodes of this show are brought to you after more beers than others. This is one of those episodes where its more, so if you don’t like swearing and listening to a slightly confused Bristolian ramble about points he occasionally forgets then you might want to skip this one.

Regardless Ben, Zack K. and Phil discuss the difference between PHP’s organisational structure and lack of BDFL with that of Rails, or Linux. We then discuss service-orientated architecture a little and move onto how you should not box yourself into a single programming language – on your CV or in general as a programmer.

Episode 35: Summer of Funksanity

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pFINALLY! We#8217;re back from the Summer of Funksanity hiatus with a new show. We talk about a href=”http://http://www.zjjv.com///osmi”Ed#8217;s speaking tour/a stops at a href=”http://http://www.zjjv.com//”OSCON/a, a href=”https://distill.engineyard.com/”Distill/a, and a href=”http://http://www.zjjv.com///”Madison Ruby/a. We also discuss the exciting new mental illness awareness campaign Engine Yard has started, called a href=”http://http://www.zjjv.com//”Prompt/a. PHP Internals jabbering gets touched on a little, and Chris#8217;s softball league./p

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liEd#8217;s a href=”http://http://www.zjjv.com///osmi”Open Sourcing Mental Illness speakibng campaing/a/li

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lia href=”http://http://www.zjjv.com//”OSCON/a/li

lia href=”https://distill.engineyard.com/”Distill/a/li

lia href=”http://http://www.zjjv.com///”Madison Ruby/a/li

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Episode 12: Awesome RFCs and Yolo

Silex and PHP contributor Igor Wiedler joins Ben and Phil to talk about his recently accepted RFC: Importing namespaced functions along with a bunch of other super-nerdy things that he has been working on.

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div style=margin-top: 1exa href=http://http://www.zjjv.com///blog/post/217-PHP-56-Roadmap-and-New-Features–Lately-in-PHP-podcast-episode-39.htmlPHP 5.6 Roadmap and New Features – Lately in PHP podcast episode 39/a/div

div style=margin-top: 1exBy Manuel Lemos/a/div

div style=margin-top: 1exNow that PHP 5.5 stable versions were released, it is time to plan the roadmap of features for PHP 5.6.br /

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This was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Cesar Rodas in episode 39 of the Lately in PHP podcast.br /

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They also commented about a new PHP core developer that was hired by SmugMug to work full time on PHP development as a sort of sponsorship of the PHP project.br /

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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn about these interesting discussions on the PHP present and future./a/div

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Episode 11: Bike Safety

Learn what happens when you wear high-heels on a bike, and what can go wrong if you get into an unstable

spin when you jump out of a plane.

We also talk about code.

What is making PHP more popular: WordPress or PHP Frameworks? Lately in PHP podcast episode 38

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div style=margin-top: 1exa href=http://http://www.zjjv.com///blog/post/216-What-is-making-PHP-more-popular-Wordpress-or-PHP-Frameworks-Lately-in-PHP-podcast-episode-38.htmlWhat is making PHP more popular: WordPress or PHP Frameworks? Lately in PHP podcast episode 38/a/div

div style=margin-top: 1exBy Manuel Lemos/a/div

div style=margin-top: 1exThe debate of what is making PHP grow in popularity was motivated by the recent suggestion from Tiobe that it could be due to a recent Zend Framework release.br /

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The discussion of whether PHP growth is caused more by popular applications like WordPress or by PHP frameworks was one of the main topics brought by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 38 of the Lately in PHP podcast.br /

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They also talked about the end of line of development for the PHP 5.3 releases and the newer PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 releases, the proposal to import global functions from namespaces, and the call for speakers for the Ski PHP event.br /

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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these and other interesting PHP topics. /a/div

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Episode 11: Bike Safety

Learn what happens when you wear high-heels on a bike, and what can go wrong if you get into an unstable

spin when you jump out of a plane.

We also talk about code.

Episode 10: Postgres, Bla, Bla, Cider

This time around we’re joined by Selena Deckelmann, who as a Postgres contributor

talks to us about some of the burning questions many PHP developers often have about Postgres

when considering it as a replacement for the PHP’s defacto-standard relational DB: MySQL.

We ask “Why are so few of the “cool kids” using Postgresql?” and “What are the most important differences between MySQL & Postgres?”, and after a bunch of useful discussion on things like true full text search,

complex indexes, PostGIS and Foreign Data Wrappers we end up discussing cider and chickens. Standard.

Discuss this on Reddit.

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