The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast, hosted by PHP community member Cal Evans, has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this latest episode Cal welcomes back a previous guest and speaker at ZendCon 2017: Davey Shafik.

Cal and Davey talk about Davey's work with Akamai and some of the services they offer and how he helps their customers effectively implement them. They also talk about additions in recent releases in the PHP language around type hinting, HTTP/2 and request splitting/multiplexing in modern web applications.

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly for listening offline. If you enjoy the show be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get updates when new shows are released.

The PHP Roundtable podcast (videocast) has posted their latest episode: Episode #53: Why I'm Afraid to Admin to Using PHP. In this show host Sammy Powers is joined by Evert Pot and Davey Shafik.

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 do you primarily code in?" Do you anticipate them scoffing at you when you say, "PHP?"

We discuss why PHP has such a bad rep in the eyes of many and why some of us feel the need to start conversations with, "I use PHP but let me explain..."

You can catch this latest episode either using the in-page video or audio player or directly on YouTube. Be sure to check out the extensive show notes for this one too - plenty of good information there. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get the latest updates when new shows are released.

The PHP Roundtable podcast, hosted by PHP community member Sammy K Powers, has posted their latest episode: Episode #47: All About HTTP/2. This time Sammy is joined by guests Davey Shafik, Ben Ramsey and Junade Ali.

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 using HTTP/2 in our next PHP app.

We also go briefly off topic to discuss the status of PHP 7.1 and the ramsey/uuid lib.

You can catch this latest episode in a few different ways: either though either the in-page audio or video players or directly over on YouTube. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter for announcements when the latest episodes are released.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted it's latest in their series of interviews with members of the PHP community. In this latest show host Cal Evans talks with Davey Shafik, a well-known speaker at PHP conferences,

They talk about Davey's recent change of roles joining the Akamai team and what he does there as a developer evangelist. Davey talks about their open APIs they're currently working on to provide transparency to their customers and how he help users interact with it. They also mention a side project he's worked on to help promote secure passwords in applications, SecurePasswords.info. They also get into a discussion about the developer evangelist role and how they see it evolving and maturing over time.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly for listening at your leisure. Be sure to subscribe to their feed or follow them on Twitter to get the latest on when new episodes are released.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted a new interview with a member of the PHP community. This time its Davey Shafik, an engineer at EngineYard (with their PHP PaaS Orchestra).

• You work on a project called FRAPI, give a summary of it
• With PHP and Ruby both in the same environment, talk about the cultural issues with the integration of the two communities
• You write as well as speak, tell us some about that (and what you're working on now)

You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page player, by subscribing to their feed and get the latest.

On the 7php.com blog today they've posted the latest in their series of PHP community interviews - a few questions with Davey Shafik, the original author of phar.

In this edition I talked with Davey Shafik (@dshafik), who is one of the Founding Contributor of PHP Zend Framework. He has been a co-author of several prominent books, namely: php|architect’s PHP 5 Zend Certification Study Guide, PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code, The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks. He is also a well-known speaker at several world-wide PHP Conferences – You can find his incoming conference schedules on his website.

In his answers we find out about:

• Where he feels his place is in the PHP community
• What he's excited about in PHP 5.4
• Some advice to beginners about "scratching an itch"
• Recommendations about profiling your code
• Resources he suggests
• His admiration of Sebastian Bergmann for the hard work he does

You can read more about these and the rest of his answers in the full interview.

On the PHPWomen blog today there's a new book review of SitePoint's latest major PHP publication - "PHP Master" (by Lorna Mitchell, Davey Shafik and Matthew Turland).

At 357 pages (375 including index), this book provides a thorough grounding in the key topics todays PHP developer should strive to know, and know well. The back cover ambitiously states that the book is "guaranteed to take your PHP skills to the next level". Keep reading to find out whether or not I agree.

She walks you through the contents of the book, noting that, despite her being an experienced developer, there were still things that she found new.

Despite the stated demographic, I think this book has a lot to offer novice developers. It would be a real challenge to properly digest and understand the wide range of topics covered, but an achievable and worthwhile one nonetheless. [...] If you’re still undecided, my advice is buy the book - you won’t regret it.

As is mentioned in this new post to the SitePoint blogs, a new book has been released (by SitePoint press, naturally) about "writing cutting-edge PHP code" by a few well known authors in the PHP community - Lorna Mitchell, Davey Shafik and Matthew Turland.

Savvy PHP web developers can now keep ahead of the game and ensure that their PHP code is safe, secure, and well-structured for the future with the latest release from SitePoint: "PHP Master: Write Cutting-edge Code" by Lorna Mitchell, Davey Shafik, and Matthew Turland.

The book covers a wide range of topics (somewhat replacing SitePoint's usual "anthology" type of book) including:

• An introduction to OOP
• Working with databases
• Creating and working with APIs
• Design patterns
• Security
• Automated testing

As part of a special offer, you can pick up your print+ebook bundle for the price of just the book, about $40 USD. If you'd like a sample before purchasing, they've posted three sample chapters.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest episode in their PHP Abstract podcast series today - an advanced look at using APIs in PHP from Davey Shafik.

Today's special guest is Davey Shafik. Davey Shafik is a full time developer with 10 years experience in PHP and related technologies. He is an author of both books and magazines and no stranger to the regular listeners of PHP Abstract. Today, Davey is going to talk to take an advanced look at APIs.

You can grab this latest bit of PHP audio goodness three ways - from the on-page player, via a subscription to the podcast feed or just by downloading the mp3.

The Zend Developer Zone has published the latest podcast in their PHP Abstract series today - an episode hosted by Davey Shafik talking about web services in PHP.

Today's special guest is Davey Shafik. Davey is a regular on PHP Abstract and I've receited his bio enough so that those of you who listen regularly can probably recite along with me. [...] Today Davey is going to talk to us today about Web Services.

As always, you can either pull down the mp3 by itself and listen to the show right away (or use the embedded player for that matter) or you can subscribe to the feed and get this and other great episodes (including a previous vidcast from Davey) delivered right to your desktop.