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Michael Kimsal mentions the posting of his latest show for his podcast - WebDevRadio, episode #34:   [This show contains a] quick overview of upcoming interviews, and mentions of the projectzero webdev project from IBM, Sheeri KritzerÃ¢ÂÂs OurSQL podcast, my upcoming SOLR presentation @ OSCON, and a bit more.   Also included in this show is a look at a PHP4->PHP5 XML wrapper that looks to take care of some of the transition of XML functionality when making the move between PHP4 and PHP5.   You can grab this latest show here or subscribe to the feed and get more shows, both past and future.
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Before I begin this week's missive, let me just say this: I'm glad to see that the FBI is turning to off-the-shelf software to monitor our conversations rather than spending more money on a proprietary solution. As a taxpayer, I appreciate that.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode of their PHP Abstract podcast hosted by Rob Richards and covering service oriented architectures in PHP.   Our special guest today is Rob Richards. Rob is an author and maintainer of many of the XML-based extensions of PHP 5, as well as one of the maintainers of libxml2. He is also the author of Pro PHP and Web Services, published by Apress. Rob is going to give us an overview of Service Oriented Architecture and what it means to us as PHP developers.   The direct link to grab the show is here, but you'd be doing yourself a favor to subscribe to the podcast feed and get all of the great content on a wide variety of topics presented by the experts.
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It's as easy as ones and zeros Episode 30 â¦
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The Pro::PHP Podcast has released their latest episode - the Newscast for December 20th, 2007.   Topics mentioned include:   PHPCity Thoughts on PHP as the next Java The Google Charting API Profiling PHP applications   To grab this latest show you can either subscribe to their feed or you can just get the latest show via a direct mp3 download.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted episode eighteen of their PHP Abstract podcast series - another episode from Davey Shafik. This time he goes on an "API rant".   Todays special guest is Davey Shafik. If you are a regular listener of PHP Abstract, you will recognize Davey's name from previous podcasts. For those of you new to PHP Abstract, Davey is a full time PHP Developer with 10 years experience in PHP and related technologies. He is an author of both magazine articles and books. Davey keeps his mind sharp by trying to tackle problems from his unique perspective. Today, Davey is going to rant a bit about APIs.   The show can either be downloaded directly, listen to the show via the built-in web player, or you can subscribe to the podcast's feed to get this and more great content from PHP Abstract.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest episode of the PHP Abstract podcast hosted by Cal Evans himself covering ways you can attract quality talent to your organization.   Along the way I've picked up a few truths, mainly stolen from people like Joel Spolsky. Some of these ideas can be found in an article I wrote a while ago titled "Nerd Herding", a link to which can be found in the show notes. Recently, I've had many people ask me variations of the same question, "How do I find talented programmers?" So today, I'm going to share with you some of the things I've learned.   The latest show is available for direct download or, as always, you can subscribe to their feed to get this and lots of other great shows.
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Matthew O'Phinney had the chance to present the Zend Framework during a meeting he attended of his local PHP user group (BostonPHP) as a part of a series their doing.   Horde was also represented as part of the evening's fare. It was the first time I've attended a UG, so I got the double whammy of that and being a presenter. Oh, make it a triple whammy -- Boston is a 3+ hour drive from the Burlington, VT area I now call home.   He mentions a talk that Chuck Hagenbuch (of the Horde project) gave on the current state of the project and a bit about his presentation (including some portions that pointed out problems with the Zend_Db component). You can check out this and the rest of the contents of his presentation here [pdf] and here [mp3 podcast].
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The phpBB development team have released an announcement about a new podcast that the application's developers will be creating.   We are now live after much discussion and work internally with the first episode of the Official phpBB Podcast!   The first episode has been posted to the official podcast website and includes talk of browser cookies, COPA vs COPPA, jaber support, PHP5 support and board/category/forum/subforum differences.   You cna check out this latest podcast in this post or subscribe to their feed (either normally or in iTunes) to get this and future episodes.
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Paul Jones will be one of the presenters at this year's php/db|works Conference happening up in Toronto this week and he's offering a teaser of his talk (here's the synopsis) for those interested - "Organizing Your PHP Projects".   Fans of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson" will recognize the kind of talk I have in store, although I don't have the time available to expound in detail the way Hazlitt does. The talk will consist of a one-sentence lesson for you to remember when deciding how to organize your PHP project, whether it's a library, an application, a CMS, or a framework. I'll then explain how to apply the One Lesson in your project, and the various follow-on effects the One Lesson will have on your project organization.   He also jokes that he'll be the only presenter to use references to livestock, Jimmy Hoffa, and Mir as a part of the talk. He's even included a slide of the presentation for even more info.
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The Pro::PHP Podcast has released their latest episode of their newscasts - the show for January 24th, 2007.  Topics mentioned include:  The new array syntax The DC PHP Conference Call for Papers Zend's "Zend Studio / Eclipse / PDT / Shiny / Neon" and Chris Shiflett's Advent Calendar   To get this latest episode, you can either download the show directly (mp3) or you can point your favorite aggregator at their feed and keep up to date.
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As mentioned by Elizabeth Naramore on the php|architect website today, the CakePHP porject has launched their own live/podcast series, The Show to highlight different happenings in the project's community.   The Show was conceived after core developer Nate Abele and I recorded a podcast for php|architect with our good friend Paul Reinheimer. We had so much fun doing the podcast, that we decided to keep it going for the CakePHP community. The Show was born.   The show is broadcast live, but you can always to get the shows if you can't make it for the live event. Questions are welcomed during the show via Skype, IRC (#cakephp-live on Freenode) and telephone.   Two episodes of the show have already aired - the polit, an Introduction to CakePHP 1.2 and a look at Writing Console Applications.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest episode of their podcast - PHP Abstract - with a show hosted by Chris Corbyn on SwiftMailer.    Our special guest today is Chris Corbyn. Chris is a professional Software Engineer based in the United Kingdom. He is fluent in PHP, JavaScript, XHTML as well as database design and management. In his spare time, Chris enjoys Snooker and Badminton.   Chris is going to talk to us about his open source project, SwiftMailer and how it can help you in your PHP applications.    The show mentions both SwiftMailer and the the PHP Developer's Network. You can grab the download directly from here or just subscribe to the podcast's feed here.
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K5, I'm disappointed in you.  On October 19 I was watching CNN and was hearing that someone was threatening dirty bomb attacks on football stadiums. Obviously fearmongering media idiocy, complete with ex-FBI call-in talking heads throughout the morning/ early afternoon. Obviously a slow newsday for CNN to report the workings of Internet trolls... but that's what bothered me the most: what Internet troll had created this glorious shitstorm?  Ever since our crowning achievement last year in the science of Internet trolling, I've been looking forward to K5 topping that supremely asocial event. So when it was finally announced who the culprit was on October 20th, I was severely depressed. Because this guy was beyond pathetic. Which led me to the inevitable realization: it should have been one of us.
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Gabe: I'm pretty frustrated with the Dunder Mifflin Infinity ARG. The site functionality is just trash. The biggest offense is the piece of shit forum they've got. It's the one way for the whole branch to talk together and it's absolute crap. Also I still can't hire new employees. There's almost 1500 people waiting to join the Spokane branch but trying to hire anymore than two at a time breaks the site for me. I contacted tech support last week and never heard back. A couple people have suggested that the website being shitty is on purpose. I don't know if I'm ready to believe it's all some ironic joke. What I do know is that interacting with their game is frustrating and I'm not sure I want to bother with it anymore.
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Tycho:  We were getting our hands on a four gig CompactFlash for the podcast recorder when the "friendly staff" gave us an idea for a new comic.  Thank you, friendly staff!  May nothing ever happen to your... staff.
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Episode 38 Happy thoughts in the comms room