The PHP Town Hall podcast has returned with their latest episode, the first in 2016: Episode 46: Christmas Theraphpy.

Ben and Phil have a little catch-up to try and get things back on track after a little 2015 lag. Basically this episode is just Sober Phil having a massive vent about daft people are on the Internet.

For some reason he accidentally read some /r/lolphp and got into an argument about how they think that PHP 7 is purely a cosmetic change. This was a good excuse to re-emphisize what an awesome set of fundamental changes PHP 7 really was.

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The latest episode of the Three Devs and a Maybe podcast, #52, is their Christmas episode (posted back on the 23rd) with hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann talking about a wide range of topics.

It is two days before Christmas but that will not stop us from recording a new episode. This week we discuss Frasers gambling hot-streak at Ascot, Micks move and how horrible Martinis are. We then move on to how Fraser is getting on in his new job up in London and Micks University presentation on Fuzzy Logic. This leads us on to how 'unrandom' humans are, and professional Rock-Paper-Scissors tournaments. Finally, Edd brings up some interesting talks by Greg Young (on EventStore) and Rich Hickey (on software design). Have a great Christmas everyone and thanks for your loyal listenership!

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In this new tutorial Smashing Magazine shows you how to create a mini "Christmas List" application with PHP, HTML and CSS (and a little bit of database help) to display a list of what you or your family wants this holiday.

'Tis the season to be jolly, and how much jollier could we make it than with a helpful Christmas wish list crafted for your family to ensure that you get maximum presentage this holiday? In this article, we will focus on creating a very simple system that allows you to add gift ideas to a Web page, and for your family (or whoever) to view the list.

They walk you through the setup of the basic PHP file structure, the HTML template for the list output, CSS to make it look nice and the actual PHP backend - working with a MySQL database to pull out product information and use a simple login method.

Sean Coates and Paul Reinheimer, the hosts of the Pique Web podcast, have released the latest episode - Episode 7 - Christmas Stories.

In this episode a few friends sit around a table, share some great beer, and share user-submitted stories of coding in the first person.

Topics mentioned in this episode include:

• Chris Shiflett's article on Google Web Accelerator
• Russian roulette for bash
• Firefox extensions to automate SQL injection testing

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