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Hello friends. We have reached the end of the podcast. At least 100 times Ed and I got together to talk about our thoughts, mostly about technical things, sometimes it was funny, sometimes it was serious. But people change and decide to put their energies into other activities. It is neither good nor bad, it is just how people grow and evolve. If Ed and Chris had not grown and changed as people since we shared the first episode on December 11, 2011, that would’ve been a huge failure. Thank you to everyone that supported this podcast over the years and reached out to us and became friends with us. Ed and Chris might do something else in the future, but it will not be /dev/hell. If there is one constant theme, it has been how programming slides towards being complex and fails instead of the majority of people working hard towards making it simple. We end the same way we started — with Ed complaining about the developer experience being so terrible for so many people. Take care of yourselves and always be pushing to make things better for everyone around you, not just yourselves. Do these things! Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes How Complex Systems Fail

Ed: “Who do you think was our best guest over the years?” Chris (without hesitating): “Paul Reinheimer” Friend-of-the-podcast Paul Reinheimer has know Ed and Chris for many years and has shared many wonderful stories about himself and his side-gig-turned-primary-gig WonderNetwork both in person and on previous episodes. Who else could tell us about their experiences of dealing with apathetic corporations who are hosting hardware for them in locations around there world? We jumped all over the place so dig into the show notes for some interesting content. Do these things! Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notesqz Paul likes using Amazon Athena for storing WonderNetwork’s information-rich log files What to do when an HTC Vive breaks before you even use it Space Pirate Trainer Control (the game) The Outer Worlds The Football Manager series of games Game Maker Studio Raku is what Perl 6 ended up becoming The “leftpad incident” What is the Commonwealth Chris uses WonderVPN for all his adult-content watching needs Ed is still making music over at Dead Agent We argued about radio royalties The well-off-but-not-elite people of Ontario often lust after properties in Cottage country Microconf is a conference for small business owners who don’t intend on taking VC money

This was recorded way too long ago. We even lost the episode notes that had been so carefully curated. What do you want from us?!? BLINK TWICE IF YOU WANT MORE EPISODES. Do these things! Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Check out Ed’s musical project Dead Agent Check out Chris' latest book “The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide To Testing PHP Applications”

As we slouch along towards episode 100, we do something we normally don’t do and have a guest on to try and sell a book they’ve written. This time out we spoke with Dane Hillard, who is in the process of finishing a book about Python programming for folks who are new to programming. Dane shared his experiences writing the book and why he feels there is a gap in help out there for folks who are looking to add programming to their problem-solving toolkit. Do these things! Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes You can find “Code Like A Pro” at Manning books You can use the promo code poddevhell19 to get 40% the book (and maybe others?) Dane used ASCIIDOC to format the book You can find Dane on The Twitters at @easyaspython Chris talks about how he is learning about CQRS and Event Sourcing

Ed and Chris started talking to each other again over a series of tubes, with the end result being another episode of the podcast. This time around we discussed some weirdness we had been noticing with our episode announcement mailing list, TIOBE and popularity contests, building things for our hobbies, and the never-ending street fight of complexity vs. churn. Do these things! Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes The TIOBE Index Chris’s and Ed'spreferred IDE for doing Python work, PyCharm The Rust programming language The Go programming language The concept of duck typing Bootstrap-Vue component and grid system Chris' site for his Magic the Gathering EDH league

It did, in fact, take longer than six months. This was recorded on June 20, 2018. Still here. Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork, OSMI, and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3)

It’s been a while since our last episode, but this time Chris and Ed go together in the same room down in Pawnee, Indiana to record an episode. Between Ed making faces at Chris while recording and Chris' totally messing up who wrote the testing blog post he went on and on, it was clear /dev/hell is not in the groove. In this episode Ed talks about some of his personal struggles that led to a long absence, Chris asks about what to do when the time frame for your goals doesn’t align with the types of places you work, and Chris and Ed try to enjoy being together in the same place while hoping the noise from the hand dryer in the bathroom on the other side of the wall from them doesn’t cause a ton of noise. Don’t worry, the podcast isn’t dead! Ed and Chris intend on talking to each other for a very very long time to come. However, you can expect to see less of us on the conference circuit in 2018. Both Chris and Ed have decided that for personal reasons they need to reduce their travel schedules. Do these things! Support us via our Patreon Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Matchbox Cowork Studio The Black Sparrow Apologies to Martin Fowler for attributing this awesome post about testing at Google hosted by Mr. Fowler and written by Mike Bland to Michael Feathers

Chris has finally moved his vast grumpy empire to it’s new location, so it was time to record an episode and get their hands on that sweet, sweet Patreon money. In this scintillating episode we talk about deliberate change in your life to achieve a new set of goals, along with upcoming conference appearances. Chris also reveals a dark secret about his new adopted home town and Ed mocks Chris for temporarily confusing two Lous. Do these things! Support us via our Patreon Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Is Chris a sleeper agent for the Black Donnellys? It’s not Spy vs Spy but Lou vs. Lou Chris decided to try something different for computer equipment when travelling This film once prompted an accusation that “When Goose died, Hartjes cried” Check out Firefox Nightly to see what in store for Firefox 57, to be released in November 2017 Chris is speaking at WeCamp 2017 and Symfony Live Berlin Ed will be speaking at Elixir with Love, AllThingsOpen, and TechCampMemphis

“…and that’s why this podcast is rated M for mature” Chris and Ed talk about their thoughts on what might have to change once you become “internet famous” and a reminder that even if you have made mistakes in the past, you can choose to correct them in the future. We also include a new segment called “What toys did we buy?” to reflect how the hosts numb the pain of every day living through conspicuous consumption. Thanks to Chance Garcia for allowing us to bring another health issue to people’s attention. Do these things! Support us via our Patreon Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Ed talked about how easy it is to be a dick online back in 2015 Ed recommends checking out this book on non-violent communication Interested in iOS development like Ed? Check out the Swift programming language Ray Wenderlich is a go-to person for Swift knowledge Now that Ed is a baller and has a dedicated desk at his co-working space, he bought a new Dell 4K monitor Ed is also using the Rain Design mStand for his laptop Chris is trying out a mechanical keyboard for the first time in 20 years — a bluetooth one from lophree Chris also has some very ambitious networking plans for his next house Ed will be appearing at WordCampDC, PyOhio and has his fingers crossed about PNWPHP Chris will be coaching at WeCamp 2017 and doing a testing workshop (and maybe more) at Symfony Live Berlin

Chris and Ed do an extremely rare daytime recording of the show on the American Memorial Day holiday. But why is a Canadian not working on an American Holiday? You’ll have to tune in to find out why along with some thoughts on mentoring and why the current crop of browser-centric testing tools are completely shit. Thanks to Ben Ramsey for his poetry choice and Chance Garcia for allowing us to bring another health issue to people’s attention. Do these things! Support us via our Patreon Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Please support Ed’s efforts to make OSMI his main gig! Both Chris and Ed will be at CakeFest 2017 WebDriver is an API in heavy use at Mozilla (and elsewhere) for doing browser automation work Ed talked about a testing tool called Fake from his webOS development days that promoted a very different testing paradigm Chris has done browser automation in PHP using Behat, Mink and a lot of swearing Most current browser-centric UI testing tools are Rube Goldberg machines Great blog post from the ClojureScript community showing off property-based testing and immutibility Also some great work being done in PHPUnit with snapshot testing

Chris and Ed talk about Ed’s new laptop and his decision to transition to do OSMI full-time. They also talked about their new Patreon that’s helping them find sponsors for the podcast. Do these things! Support us via our Patreon Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Please support Ed’s efforts to make OSMI his main gig Back when we got a new MBP Chris talked about his new setup

Chris and Ed decided to push themselves out of their comfort zone and talked to Laravel community superstar Matt Stauffer. We talked about Matt’s experience writing a book for a major publish (with an animal on the cover and everything), asked the question “does consistency in code matter for OSS projects” and Chris sadly muted his mic while Matt and Ed discussed the Analogue NT Mini gaming console. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork, OSMI, and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Matt’s book Laravel Up And Running Chris hacks away on OpenCFP Symposium is an app designed to help speakers collect their talks The Anologue NT Mini is Ed’s latest console purchase How weird film shot at 120fps will look Matt is one of the big shots at Tighten You can play video games in your browser thanks to the Internet Archive’s Console Living Room

A short-ish episode this time out where our Dynamic Duo went guestless and talked about their recent conference experiences in Salt Lake City, Antwerp, and Miami. Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork, OSMI, and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Eric Lindros gets wiped out by Scott Stevens, never to be an elite-level player again Chris and Ed spoke at SunshinePHP, enjoying the crazy happy-hour scene and tropical drinks Ed spoke at LoopConf The video of Ed’s talk is up on YouTube where he dressed like Emo Ernie Chris spoke at PHP Benelux

This time out we asked our listeners to submit some questions because we are tired of winning so much and wanted to let others get in on it. Along the way Ed talked about a recent computer-related purchase he made on eBay while Chris talked about one the earliest science fiction short stories he can remember while feeling incredibly old at the same time. Don’t worry, Chris' ego let him know he was not old and is still awesome. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork, Grumpy Learning and Open Sourcing Mental Illness Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes “What would you do if we weren’t programming as a career?” “How do you get to the point where you don’t need to submit resumes to get jobs?” What the heck is the Commodore Plus/4 and why doesn’t Ed know everything about CP/M Ray Bradbury’s A Sound Of Thunder is a legendary time travel story

YOUR 2016 PHP PODCAST OF THE YEAR from simpleprogrammer.com Welcome to the very first episode of 2017! We’re back after a nice break for the holidays and ready to get back to being insightful and unfiltered. In this episode we talked about the concept of “programming as craft” with Chris and Ed having a great discussion about what should follow after the phrase “programmers need to learn empathy.” Ed also released some music, and is donating all the proceeds to OSMI. Chris was sad that he did not get the opportunity to re-record the vocal tracks from some of Ed’s older material in his own signature vocal style. Chris also talked (not so briefly) about the new laptop he bought and the security measures he decided to take with it. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork, Grumpy Learning and Open Sourcing Mental Illness Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Kent Beck’s tweet about programmers and empathy Ed recommended a book on non-violent communication Ed’s music stylings as Dead Agent Chris bought a Satechi Slim Type-C Multi-Port Adapter and one of the Apple USB-A-to-C adapters for his YubiKey Can Single User Mode get around FileVault? Prey can help protect your laptop if it gets stolen Chris blogged about his new laptop and setup Both Ed and Chris have had great success with recommendations provided by The Wirecutter

Welcome to our end-of-year episode! It has been probably the most gratifying year in a long time for both Chris and Ed. Chris' work at Mozilla has really changed his perspective on the value of the open web and his future. Ed finally got the chance to sink his teeth into a true leadership role at GraphStory and with a lot of help OSMI became a non-profit poised to continue doing excellent work in the field of bringing awareness to mental health issues. Crazy travel schedules, the last TrueNorthPHP, Chris and Ed laughing about things more than usual, and a very passionate non-testing-related speech from Chris can be found in this final episode of 2016. We know 2016 sucked for a lot of people and 2017 is likely to suck worse. Hang in there, we will be here for you. Feel like helping OSMI raise some money this Christmas while consuming conspicuously? Please consider using Amazon Smile to send a small portion of each purchase to OSMI. We’ve included a large number of links below for things we have bought or considered buying for our loved ones (and often ourselves) with Smile affiliation. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes GO HERE FIRST BEFORE YOU BUY Amazon Smile purchases all benefit Open Sourcing Mental Illness. Tom Bihn AERONAUT 45 NOMATIC Bag eBags eTech 2.0 Weekender Convertible Travelpro Platinum Magna 2 22 Ince Express Rollaboard Suitcase TUFFTAAG Travel ID Bag Tag Outdoor Research Ultralight Z-Compression Sac Eagle Creek Pack-It Cube Set Eagle Creek Pack-It Slim Kit Toiletry Organizer BESTEK Grounded Universal Plug Worldwide Plug Travel Adapter Skooba Design Cable Stable DLX Skooba Design Cable Stable Mini Jackery Bolt 6,000 mAh Ultra-Compact External Battery Charger, Portable Power Bank and Travel Charger with Built-in Lightning & Micro USB Cables Anker PowerCore 20000 with Quick Charge 3.0 Nomader Collapsible Water Bottle Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD AUKEY USB-C to USB 3.0 Adapter (2 Pack) Satechi Slim Aluminum Type-C Multi-Port Adapter with Type-C Charging Port, 4K HDMI (30Hz) Video Output, and 2 USB 3.0 Ports for MacBook 12 and New MacBook Pro 2016 Blue Yeti USB Microphone Shure MV5 Digital Condenser Microphone (Gray) + USB & Lightning Cable STM Blazer Padded Sleeve with Shoulder Strap NETGEAR AC1750 Smart WiFi Router Dual Core 800MHz Processor – Router Only (R6400-100NAS) Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7B QuietPoint Active Noise-Cancelling Closed-Back Headphones – Wired Jabra Move Wireless Stereo Headset – Black Yubi Key for hardware auth

Chris and Ed record a very quick show to talk about Ed’s latest conference adventure, the launch of some new stuff from OSMI, and Chris talks about feedback loops, hoodies that don’t fit, and the end of TrueNorthPHP. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Ed spoke at DevSpace 2016 in Huntsville There are now some donations-welcome ebooks available from OSMI Chris and Ed will have a rare meat-space meetup at Eternal Weekend All the OSMI t-shirts and hoodies are done through Clockwise

Pacific Northwest PHP co-organizer Tess Mero joins Ed and Chris to discuss her work organizing one of the newer regional conferences, Joomla, and what the hell does Cisco have to offer PHP developers. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Tessa’s blog and Twitter account Big Fan with Patton Oswalt Cisco DevNet Thinkful The always awesome Jeremy Lindblom Joomla Tessa learned a lot about Joomla via courses at Open Source Training Fellow developer evangelist Mike Stowe Cisco Spark Tropo The Pacific Northwest PHP conference

In this scintillating episode Chris and Ed shift gears and talk about their own experiences working “in the open”. Chris is very fortunate that everything he does at Mozilla gets open-sourced while Ed talks about his experiences back when he was running Spaz. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Chris' work at Mozilla generally ends up in their Mozilla Services GitHub repo When Ed’s employer does open source things, they fall under the Graph Story repo Mozilla is using TestPilot to test new features for their browsers Opera had a pretty nasty security breach Ed mentioned that one of Graph Story’s open source projects is a iOS Neo4J library Ed is also getting better at branding — GLOSSY has been renamed HackLafayette despite Chris saying it should be called G-POSSY The last ever TrueNorthPHP is coming up fast — November 3-5 Ed was the lead on Spaz, one of the first 3rd party Twitter clients Chris used to get great schadenfreude by reading about all sorts of stupid failed startups over at Fucked Company

This time around Chris and Ed attempt to shame you with their D-lister activities and ability to purchase things they want but don’t need. We cover PyOhio, the long-anticipated php|cruise, and some useful gadgets they’ve incorporated into their work flows. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Ed spoke about his usual stuff at PyOhio and Chris thought the event looked awesome Ed’s talk from PyOhio Chris got sucked in by the Facebook advertising for the Henge Dock Chris brought his long-suffering wife along with him for php|cruise and highly recommends cruising as a vacation option Ed likes the Roost Laptop Stand Chris bought some generic monitor-stand-and-USB hub at Winners Ed had some UPS fun with his new Tom Bihn bag Both Chris and Ed highly recommend the Wirecutter’s travel gear guide

This episode, Chris remembers his feline companion and Office Manager who passed away recently. Then we get into an insanely long discussion of travel tips and horror stories. Do these things! If you liked the Office Manager, please donate to http://omhs.ca/ Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Nexus TSA Pre-check E-passport map of LAX php[cruise] 2016

This time out we spoke with Noelle Daley who shared her experiences at New Relic moving developer relations to being a developer via a programming bootcamp. We also discussed Ed’s latest round of work promoting OSMI and Noelle’s talk she gave at OSBridge in Portland. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork and Grumpy Learning Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Noelle on Twitter Noelle polished up her developer skills at HackBright She works on the New Relic APM product It’s pretty awesome that New Relic provides opportunities for people to transition into different types of jobs Ed’s local newspaper talked about his work on OSMI Chris had a great time at PHP Southcoast He also got to hangout with 1300 fellow co-workers in London Perl 5’s super-chill release manager Open Source Bridge Find out what conferences are accepting papers at The CFP Report

It’s rare that we have some folks who work for the same employer back-to-back on the show, but this time out we spoke with Jessica Rose. Jessica is Tracy Osborne’s boss (Tracy was on the show in Episode 77) and talked about her own experiences creating a different kind of developer relations team at Dream Factory. Along the way we found out how much better Chris handled jet lag at the same Australian conference Jessica was at and how thankful she is her husband pays zero attention to Twitter. Do these things! Check out our sponsors WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Jessica on Twitter Her employer Dream Factory Jessica and Ed really enjoy AirBnB while Chris is a dedicated “sharing economy” hater. Meet the new middleman, same as the old middleman The famous “no regerts” tattoo The Car Wars game from Steve Jackson Games Read the crazy story of when Steve Jackson Games got a visit from the U.S. Secret Service Baseball Stars Canadian hip-hop band Dream Warriors Don Rickles Gap Jumpers Ian Banks “The Culture” series Univeral Basic Income Uber’s plan to have driverless cars

On the 77th episode of you favourite comedy podcast about technology and aging programmers, Chris and Ed spoke with Tracy Osborn about her new job in developer relations, living the sweet rent-free life in the Bay Area and how she is making the smart move of relocating with her Kanuckistanian husband to Toronto. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code ‘devhell’ Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3) Links and Notes Tracy on Twitter She works at DreamFactory Her wedding startup 500 Startups Accelerator Be sure to read the source at Reportive.com Docker The drive-in theatre near Chris Tracy went to Cal Poly for Computer Science but quickly switched Zed Shaw’s Learn Python The Hard Way Tracy’s Hello Web App books Both Chris and Tracy know Amy Hoy Ed’s series of tweets about a self-absorbed programmer giving up on Rails

Photo by Sira Sara - CC BY 2.0 Chris and Ed sit down to talk about their recent travels to conference both near and far and to also discuss what tools and languages they have been using at their day jobs. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code devhell Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 89.6MB, 1:34:39) Links and Notes Tools we use: Languages: Ed: PHP, JavaScript, Python Chris: Python with a side of PHP Editors: PHPStorm* Sublime Text Nano Marked editor for previewing Markdown documents Atom Vim Libraries and tools Vue.js HTTPie Ed did not like Webpack py.test Chris just got into the private beta for Docker Paw HTTP client for OS-X Things we wanted to use but never got into it Ed: I bought multiple ruby and rails books Chris: Node, Emacs, step-through debuggers

We’re three-quarters of the way through to The End! In this episode it was just Ed and Chris talking about two issues that are very important to them. We go over the early results from Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness survey and then have a very long discussion about the events surrounding LambdaConf 2016. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code ‘devhell’ Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 89.4MB, 1:34:09) Links and Notes Please fill out the OSMI survey LambdaConf organizer’s explanations Brendan Eich resigning as Mozilla CEO after 9 days Body Count’s “Cop Killer” controversy Ed spoke at The Combine Ed will be speaking at Kalamazoo X Chris spent 27 hours flying each way to speak at PHP Austrailia Conference

Photo by Kittenlive - CC BY-SA 3.0 In this episode we were extremely lucky to get Kenneth Reitz on the show to discuss his experiences when he had a mental health event that resulted in a stay in the hospital and some major life changes as a result. Normally we’re a comedy podcast that focusses on technology, but issues surrounding mental health are very important to us. We’re extremely grateful that Kenneth came on and was very open about what happened to him. We hope you enjoy what was a great, open, freewheeling discussion about how the symptoms of some mental illnesses appear beneficial from the outside. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code ‘devhell’ Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 97.2MB, 1:43:49) Links and Notes Kenneth on Twitter Requests Python HTTP library Heroku Kenneth’s post about his mental health event Bipolar Disorder Haldol Lithium (not the framework) The Hypomanic Edge Kanye West car accident 2016 Mental Health in Tech Survey Python support on Heroku David Zuelke Prison Architect SimCity franchise Football Manager Dungeon Keeper II Bejwelled Skylines Tiny Bird Louisville Arcade Expo Gold farming Video of Bo Jackson from Tecmo Bowl MAME cabinets Kenneth Reitz’s Music

This time out we had PHP community icon Cal “Doesn’t Follow Chris On Twitter” Evans on to discuss the traveling minstrel show known as NomadPHP, the awesomeness of Day Camp 4 Developers, his thoughts on how Mailchimp handled The Mandrill Issue, and helped trigger Chris in to an epic rant. Chris also hopes that Cal has not noticed he hadn’t finished that thing he was supposed to do for him yet. It will be done really soon! We’ll be giving away 4 free tickets to the Day Camp 4 Developers on Modern PHP on April 22, 2016! Sign up for our mailing list now to enter the drawing! Don’t forget about our special offer for listeners! Get 50% off Backup Pro’s CMS plugins by using the promo code devhell! And get trials of Backup Pro for ExpressionEngine 2, ExpressionEngine 3, Craft, WordPress, PrestaShop, and Concrete5! Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro, Roave and WonderNetwork Get 50% off Backup Pro’s services by using the promo code devhell Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 59.9MB, 1:23:23) Links and Notes One of Sean Connery’s finest scenes Chris' favourite movie Guy who harpooned the FedEx pilots NomadPHP Day Camp 4 Developers Box Lunch Josh Holmes Josh Lockhart Josh’s Lockhart’s Modern PHP Book The SlimPHP microframework Lorna Jane’s website Rob Allen (who took a very popular picture of Chris) New Zealand developer Chris Pitt Aaron Piotrowski Icicle Sara Golemon The 12th Man I can’t wait to use HHJVM Patrick McKenzie MailChimp’s thought-provoking post about the future of Mandrill Amazon SES Mailgun SendGrid SparkPost Feedbin Feedly

Jason Myers came on the show to talk about his experiences running not one but TWO conferences in the Nashville, Tennessee area, along with how he ended up writing a book about a popular Python database abstraction tool, and why he prefers the hermetic lifestyle. Along the way Chris and Jason also managed to beat a dead horse for a few minutes. Special offer for listeners! Get 50% off Backup Pro’s CMS plugins by using the promo code devhell! And get trials of Backup Pro for ExpressionEngine 2, ExpressionEngine 3, Craft, WordPress, PrestaShop, and Concrete5! Also! Listeners can get a 50% discount on Jason Myers' book Essential SQLAlchemy, 2nd Edition! Discount will show when you add it to your cart. Go buy it now! Do these things! Check out our sponsors Backup Pro and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 68.4MB, 1:35:57) Links and Notes Jason on Twitter Jason’s book on SQLAlchemy PyTennessee Nodevember PyGotham PyOhio Adam Culp’s write-up about SunshinePHP and CoC violations Maus PHP Conference Australia The Combine Kalamazoo X OSMIHelp

We really do appreciate our sponsors so when we get a chance to thank them in a way other than our awesome ad reads, we do it! On this episode you get twice the guest because we invited two of the three folks behind WonderNetworks to join us. Paul Reinheimer and Gemma Anible came on (and even did video via Skype so they could tell when we were getting bored) and talked about how WonderNetworks got started, Paul and Gemma’s preferred development style and Paul seemed determined (as he always is) to tweak Chris. Corrections and Updates From Episode 70 – Chris was wrong about the French legal system From Episode 70 – Chris was wrong about who played the creature in “The Thing From Another World” Do these things! Check out our sponsors Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 68.5MB, 1:35:12) Links and Notes Paul on Twitter Gemma on Twitter WonderProxy Where’s It Up Space leggings Ziggy Stardust The TDD study from Gemma’s talk Phalcon web framework BulletPHP web framework Slim 3 web framework Trailblazer Ruby on Rails architecture PHP-GTK Elizabeth Marie Smith on Twitter How Chris looks like Lobot during Skype chats How few followers Ed has on Twitter The Go programming language How Ed personifies a level of explaining things “Is it Graph scale?”

Welcome to a new year and hopefully a more frequent podcasting schedule of recording on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of every month. Can your favourite old-but-lazy duo maintain such a punishing pace? During the discussions for topics for this episode, Chris went to the bathroom for some quiet time. When he came back Ed had asked dedicated grumpy-Canadian hater Amanda Folson to join this episode to talk a bit about the life of a developer evangelist, Greg LeMonde, the Battle for PHP CoC, how Composer saved PHP, and CodeMash. Along the way Amanda and Ed ganged up on Chris showing their hatred for their peace-loving neighbours north of the 49th parallel and during the aftershow drove him away with talk about audio recording equipment. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 68.5MB, 1:35:12) Links and Notes Amanda on Twitter Amanda’s employer PagerDuty 24 Days In December RFC for a PHP code of conduct Why I Still Use PHP by Ed Composer Packagist The best ever conference held at a water park Madalyn Parker gave an awesome talk at CodeMash about “Mental Health at Work” SkiPHP PyTennesee Stay on top of what conferences are accepting papers with The CFP Report The severely underrated Yul Brenner The Matt Dillon with talent

After some airing of grievances and snarky emails, we managed to get our long- time personal friend Elizabeth Naramore to come on the show and talk about how she was scared for her life the first time she ever met Chris. We also got to continue to show how immature the three of us are with our constant giggling and inappropriate comments due to the innuendo-laden episode number. When we weren’t giggling we did talk about Liz’s studies into the psychology of open source communities and her work helping to teach more people how to use Gi-Thub. Ed and Chris discussed how the marketing efforts for their own products are different yet have the same end goal. Chris also talked about how he stupidly lost his passport while in Orlando for an all-hands meeting (1270 people!) for Mozilla. He was so stressed he didn’t even use the free park passes to Epcot, Hollywood Studios, or the Animal Kingdom. Do these things! Check out our sponsors Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 93.2MB, 1:41:55) Links and Notes Elizabeth on Twitter GitHub Urine storage GitHub Patchwork Elizabeth’s slides for her talk at TrueNorthPHP The downside of being nice OSMI artiste Geri Coady The soul stylings of Nitzer Ebb Branding Brand Mozlando Mozilla FlyWeb

Super special guest Gary Hockin of JetBrains, and previously dog wrangler at Roave, joins us for much fun discussion and blame-taking. We babble about Slack vs IRC, the dev evangelism life, software subscription models, and video games. Also we make the say command in OS X utter profane phrases. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 72.5MB, 1:35:53) Links and Notes Gary Hockin Narcos (netflix) Ministry Lead into Gold JetBrains PHPStorm   irccloud.com   slackhq.com  * developer-evangelism.com JetBrains subscription pricing announcement Vim bindings in PHPSTorm X-COM UFO Defense Baldur’s Gate MGS series Grammar Dalek (I do believe you mean Dr Whom) Romany Gypsy Caravan

Episode 66 was recorded live right after the inaugural Pacific Northwest PHP Conference. We make fun of our sponsors, talk about smelly tests, Thomas Aquinas, remote pairing with juniors, and new stuff happening with OSMI. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 51.1MB, 55:41) Links and Notes PNWPHP Conference Jeremy Lindblom The Seattle Underground Thomas Aquinas Mussolini Sara Golemon Cyborg Elephant Meat “Sock it to me!” Smelly Tests CuteFTP Selenium The Last Starfighter Open Sourcing Mental Illness

Episode 65: slow roasted for sweet mesquite flavor! Derick Bailey of WatchMeCode fame joins us for an awesome discussion of the trials and tribulations of developer entrepreneurship. Derick talks about why Signal Leaf is going away, and we swap terrifying PayPal stories. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 77.2MB, 1:28:12 ) Links and Notes Derick Bailey WatchMeCode Signal Leaf Brian P Hogan EntreProgrammers Podcast Derick’s series of videos for Pragmatic Programmers 30x500 Amy Hoy’s blog Gary Vaynerchuck’s TED talk DevChat.tv 5by5.tv

We recorded this ep with special guest Joe Ferguson about a month ago, but all sorts of family stuff delayed the release of this and Episode 63 (which we just released last week). On this episode we talk canine gold farming, bald eagles and beavers, how Joe secretly controls NomadPHP MC, NomadJS, and MemphisPHP, whether you’re supposed to drink Magners over ice, and how great Chris Cornutt is. We talked about more stuff but I got tired of writing things down. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 73.2MB, 1:23:12 ) Links and Notes Joe Ferguson Jeremy Kendall Chris Cornutt NomadPHP MemphisPHP Cal Evans Lightning talks youtube channel James Titcumb RabbitMQ Talk Eventbrite GoToMeeting NomadJS Magners Cider Pace Picante Sauce commercial Ansible ExpressionEngine Northeast PHP Conference Pacific NorthWest PHP Conference

So we recorded this nearly two months ago, but some family stuff delayed the release of this and Episode 64 (coming very soon). On this episode we talk about large developers, cars, Ed learning Java against his will, and Chris re-learning how to teach people. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 70.1MB, 1:20:05 ) Links and Notes Mondelēz International Neo4j Clojure Scala Akka Jython JRuby Maven Elevation Dock Amazon Echo How common is the name ‘Alexa’ Boldt Castle

phptek 2015 featured an awesome live recording of Development Hell in front of a rowdy audience. Our special guest Yitzchok Willroth, aka coderabbi, drops Talmudic knowledge on us, and we have great discussions about “hard” and “soft” talks, tech vs personal skills, and had a great Q&A session with the audience. Note that the audio quality isn’t quite up to our usual standards here. Recording live can be hard — sorry about the background noise! New Sponsors! We have two new sponsors for this episode. First is Pulse Storm, fine purveyors of Magento-related books and extensions. You can get 20% off with discount code devhell. Next is Graph Story, your new graph database SaaS provider. Check them out and tell them Development Hell sent you! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Pulse Storm (20% off with discount code devhell), Graph Story, Roave and WonderNetwork Buy stickers at devhell.info/shop Follow us on Twitter here Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 73.5MB, 1:21:08 ) Links and Notes coderabbi on Twitter Wisdom as a Service World Tour Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned in Rabbinical School

Two Chrises? God help us. Our guest this episode is Chris Fidao, creator of the ultra-successful and awesome Servers For Hackers web site and e-book. We talk about info products (because Chris has to talk about his money making schemes all the time), what devs should know about devops, Nginx vs. Apache vs. Your Mom, and old tech that keeps on keeping on. Also an update of Gary Hockin’s ongoing embezzlement campaign. Did you know STICKERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE? BUY SOME NOW AT devhell.info/shop!!!! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 53.1MB, 1:14:00 ) Links and Notes MailChimp Servers for Hackers newsletter Blog UserScape MAMP/WAMP Vagrant tasksel install lamp-server upstart systemd sys5init

This week on Development Hell we brag about how awesome we are via discussion about conference prep as a speaker. How much crap should go on your slides? How do we change our talks for different audiences? What’s our worst presenter experience? We also throw Paul Reinheimer under the bus. Did you know STICKERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE? BUY SOME NOW AT devhell.info/shop!!!! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 53.1MB, 1:14:00 ) Links and Notes Brooklyn Beta OSCON Open Source Bridge Roave Foundation

We are joined by super special guest Arbi Arzoumani, PHP community vet and hardware modding expert. We talk about everything from the Amiga to the Raspberry Pi, with lots of console mods inbetween. Chris gets all excited about building a MAME cabinet, and we chat some about home theater PC stuff with XBMC and Plex. If you’re into hardware stuff, you’re gonna looooooove it. Did you know STICKERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE? BUY SOME NOW AT devhell.info/shop!!!! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 50.5MB, 1:10:15 ) Links and Notes Arbi on Twitter Commodore Amiga Dreamcast Software modding XBox PS2 / region locking Kodi (was XBMC) Plex Xbox hack (with clock/dashboard) Raspberry Pi nmap OSMC Framemeister Upscaler Arcade VGA 5000 Ultimarc Xtension Classic Arcade Cocktail Cabinet

So we kinda forgot we recorded this until a month after the fact. Whoops! This ep is all about side projects, kicking off with Chris and Ed talking about CBTTool, Ed’s electronic worksheet for folks with anxiety disorders. Then we discuss Chris' new book The Grumpy Little Book of Hack, and Ed’s experience technical editing Modern PHP by Josh Lockhart. Then we get into a boring discussion about marketing. Plus we have STICKERS! Did you know STICKERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE? BUY SOME NOW AT devhell.info/shop!!!! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Build Better Software Bundle, Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 47.4MB, 1:05:49 ) Links and Notes CBTTool The Grumpy Little Book of Hack Modern PHP

This episode we are joined by PHP whiz kid Anthony Ferrara to discuss recent happenings on PHP Internals, where a productive community member stepped away entirely. We discuss the merits of the proposals (particularly the controversial Scalar Type Hints RFC), and what the PHP community could be doing better to prevent contributor burnout. Also I guess we talked about baby animals…? Also STICKERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE! BUY SOME NOW AT devhell.info/shop!!!! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 46.9MB, 1:05:13 ) Links and Notes Anthony Ferrara; on Twitter Video Toaster Hot Dog HTML editor Roave Foundation Andrea Faulds post to internals Current Scalar Type Hints RFC DoOcracy Stack Overflow PHP chat room Baby Platypus Baby Wombat

The PHP Bard himself, Jeremy Lindblom, joins us for much discussion of fun things, like how PHP is used inside Amazon, the upcoming Pacific Northwest PHP Conference (PNWPHP), and what it’s like to be a bard in the age of automation. Also Ed bought a new TV and wrote some music once. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 46.8MB, 1:05:09) Links and Notes Kickstarter for PNWPHP Jeremy on Twitter The PHP Bard on Twitter AWS SDK for PHP Amber monitors Ed’s music project Dead Agent Dead Agent – Retina EP

We’re republishing this episode to (hopefully) get the right episode out to listeners using feeds/podcasting tools. It was originally linked to Ep. 53’s audio, and some podcast aggregators may not get the updated version Everything old is new again! Sort of! We chatter about Chris' 1% car and how rough it is to upgrade. Then we babble about WebOS, LuneOS, and Ed’s experiences running the Spaz open source project. Chris made some open source stuff once too. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 44.4MB, 1:01:52) Links and Notes BMW Bluetooth Kits webOS Spaz project HP Touchpad HP/Palm acquisition LuneOS OpenCFP Matt Stauffer’s Five-Minute Geek Show

Everything old is new again! Sort of! We chatter about Chris' 1% car and how rough it is to upgrade. Then we babble about WebOS, LuneOS, and Ed’s experiences running the Spaz open source project. Chris made some open source stuff once too. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 44.4MB, 1:01:52) Links and Notes BMW Bluetooth Kits webOS Spaz project HP Touchpad HP/Palm acquisition LuneOS OpenCFP Matt Stauffer’s Five-Minute Geek Show

Our latest episode was special in two ways: we recorded video of it, and it was a simulcast with our friends at the PHP Town Hall podcast. What great people! They’re still wrong, but that’s okay. We talk about mouthing off in public, whether async features should be built into PHP, and the appropriate ways to encourage people to use current versions of PHP. Then Chris gets mad. Please now! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 75.8MB, 1:36:49) Links and Notes API Blueprint Apiary Dredd ReactPHP Hack’s Async stuff PyroCMS IRCmaxell’s blog bost on versions and his follow-up where he is TAKEN ABACK CodeIgniter 3.0 PHP-FIG

Guest-less and listless, Chris and Ed slouch their way back to their studios. Chris talks about the time he tried to murder a disabled woman with his new luxury sedan, we discuss artisanal PHP-Nuke sites, and how we got our local user groups started. Then It really goes off the rails with a discussion of the awesomeness of Dragon Age: Inquistion, and what happens to games and other services that rely on Internet connectivity. Correction: It looks like Ultima Online and Phantasy Star Online are still up! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 47.4MB, 1:06:13) Links and Notes Mobility scooters PHP-Nuke GLOSSY Toronto PHP Dragon Age: Inquisition Marvel Puzzle Quest Phantasy Star Online Ultima Online iWeb

On a cold winter’s night in the far north, Chris and Ed recorded a podcast at the True North PHP 2014 hackathon event. It was loud and fun! We’re joined by special guest Ben Ramsey and others to talk about organizing conferences and generally being awesome. Enjoy! Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 52.1MB, 59:35) Links and Notes TrueNorthPHP

We’re joined for Episode 51 by Margaret Staples, backend programmer extraordinaire on Brunelleschi: Age of Architects. She shares her experiences doing indie game dev, traveling to the Strangeloop conference, and meeting geeks celebs. We also talk about serial killers and Ed’s new job (obviously). This is our first episode released in stereo. The file size is larger, but man does it sound better. If you have any issues with playback, let us know. Big thanks to our new sponsor Offload.io!! It’s a great resurce for finding and sharing contracting work. Do these things! Check out our sponsors: Offload.io, Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 53.9MB, 1:15:42) Links and Notes Margaret Staples' blog Margaret on Twitter Brunelleschi: Age of Architects Project backing page Merchant Prince Trade Wars Wizardry Strangeloop Strange Love Rich Hickey/Clojure Ed Gein Beyond The Mat Speakers page at TrueNorthPHP Ed’s new job

EPISODE FITTY!!!!! Learn the INSIDE SCOOP on THE ORIGINS OF DEVELOPMENT HELL! EXCLUSIVE BEHIND the SCENES ACCESS!!! WE SUMMARIZE HOW CRAPPY ALL THE EPISODES ARE!!! Also how Chris' DNS got haxxored. Big thanks to our new sponsor PancakeApp! If you do freelance work, it’s an awesome tool that saves you tons of time. Check out our sponsors: PancakeApp and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 53.5MB, 1:54:03) Links and Notes We basically didn’t write any notes down because we wanted to keep it real. THIS SPACE LEFT INTENTIONALLY BLANK