Ruby 2 was just released, and the new 'refinements' feature presents some interesting challenges for JRuby and just about anyone wanting to read Ruby code. Brief chat about the regex security affecting Rails back in January, but more broadly speaking, what does this say about regex in general? Should we embrace it, or find better alternatives? Finally, I've got a new blog post up about web framework security - why do (almost) no web frameworks ship with security baked-in?

The podcast references some of the thoughts from his recent post about framework security. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3.

Hello all from sunny Florida :) Recently discovered jquery validation plugin only 6 years too late, and have found some tools that work in conjunction with it, including Pajama, a PHP library. Also have some links to font combination articles and tools, and have recently been using "parallel deployment" in Tomcat 7.

The Pajama PHP library does "hybrid validation" and follows the rules of the jQuery validation plugin but for the server side. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3. You can also subscribe to their feed to get the latest shows.

I chatted with Jeff Carouth about his day to day worklife as a PHP guy (among other things) at Texas A and M. Learn the A and M mascot name, Jeff's favorite design pattern, and more.

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly.

I got a chance to sit down with (the legend) Keith Casey. Keith's well known in the PHP community with his web2project project (among other things) and is now poised to be a greater force in the worlds of Twilio and the Austin tech scene. Volume is a little quiet here, so turn it up to hear Keith's words of wisdom.

You can listen to the episode either via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly to listen at your leisure.

I had a great chinwag with Nate Abele and Garrett Woodworth of the Lithium project - a new framework for PHP 5.3. Try as I might to inject Groovy and Grails in to the conversation, we kept coming back to PHP :) Curious about Lithium? Take a listen to see if their philosophy is for you.

You can listen to the podcast in a few different ways - either through the in page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to the feed in your favorite aggregator.

Brian was kind enough to review both of his presentations which go in to great detail about the scaling issues he's faced both with DealNews.com and the Phorum forum software project (which recently turned 10 years old!) [...] Thanks to Brian for going over things in such detail!

You can download this latest episode from the WebDevRadio site as well as check out Brian's slides from his MySQL conference presentation.

The latest webdevradio podcast is up. One of the topics is a question for listeners about PHP learning resources; specifically, what are some good resources to learn PHP OO? I also ask about what listeners would recommend to someone just getting in to the webdev field these days - .net, java, ruby, php, something else?

You can either subscribe to their feed to get this (and future episodes) or just get the mp3 only. He also has a web player on the post to listen there as well.

[This show contains a] quick overview of upcoming interviews, and mentions of the projectzero webdev project from IBM, Sheeri Kritzer's 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.

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