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Unlock the power of command-line interfaces and text-based user interfaces with PHP in our latest PHPRoundtable episode: ‘CLIs and TUIs with PHP for Fun and Profit’. Join us as we dive deep into how developers are leveraging PHP to create robust and interactive CLI and TUI applications that drive productivity and innovation. Whether you’re looking to streamline your workflows and automation or just develop tools that will help you be more profitable, this discussion will provide you with insi... (Full Show Notes)
57: All things Zend; Framework, Apigility & Certification
There's a lot more going on at Zend other than Zend Framework. We chat about the Zend ecosystem, from Apigility to [Zend Certification](http://www.zend.com/en/services/certif
56: Hourly vs Value-Based Pricing
There are two seemingly contradicting philosophies about how to charge clients for programming work. The hourly camp suggests that the client is paying for your skill and hiring you for your time. The value-based pricing camp suggests that the programmer
55: Acceptance Testing with Behat
We chat about the open-source Behavior-Driven Development framework called Behat. We get a brief overview of how Behat can help us write more reliable code and also explore some best-practices when writing automated tests.
54: Security: Encryption, Hashing and PHP
We chat about security in the the PHP community, encryption & hashing in PHP and a new-hotness crypto library called libsodium.
53: Why I'm Afraid To Admit I'm A PHP Programmer
So you spend most of your time programming in PHP. You meet another programmer out in the wild. You begin explaining what you do. Do you find yourself using vague terms and actively trying to avoid the word "PHP?" Do you dread the question, "What language
52: Behind the scenes of two years of the PHP Roundtable
Today the PHP Roundtable celebrates 2 years of generating nerdy discussions! We take a look behind the scenes of the PHP Roundtable podcast and chat with some nerds about what's going on the world of PHP.
51: What happened to PHP 6?
Despite the fact that there was never an official release of PHP 6, it was going to be a real thing with a lot of great improvements to the engine and language. But why was this version of PHP never released? We talk with some previous and current interna
50: PHP For Beginners
If you're just starting with programming & PHP, this episode is for you. We discuss some helpful tips to get you started with PHP programming such as some helpful learning resources and some common pitfalls to watch out for when learning to program.
49: Event Sourcing in PHP
We spend much of our time as developers managing the state in our applications. There are many different approaches and philosophies attributed to reading, mutating and storing state. The Event Sourcing pattern is an approach to managing application st
48: Docker & PHP
The demand for DevOps skills is growing more and more in modern web development. But all the hype and demand is met with myriad DevOps tools. Staying abreast of how these tools can help make our jobs easier can be daunting. So today we take a closer look
47: All About HTTP/2
HTTP/1.1 will eventually be replaced by HTTP/2 so it's important for us PHP nerds to know all about the latest version of the HTTP protocol that's already running some of the internet's biggest websites. We discuss the things we need to know to start usin
46: Character Encoding and UTF-8 in PHP
If you've ever gotten a number of weird looking characters in your database or on your website like, "�" and didn't know why, then this episode is for you. Those bizarre chara
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