The Three Devs and a Maybe podcast has posted their latest episode featuring returning special guest Joe Watkins to talk about contributing back to the PHP language:

In this weeks episode we chat to good friend of the show Joe Watkins. We start off discussion with his recent work on creating a compute-node, dual WAN setup and accepted PHP Serbia talk on contributing to PHP without being a ‘C wizard’. From here we move on to mention some of the areas (bug tracking system and QA) that could be improved with the help of new contributors within the PHP internals ecosystem. Finally, we highlight several recently proposed RFCs, his opinions on them and some work he is doing on a future RFC.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show be sure to also subscribe to their feed and follow the podcast on Twitter to get updates with new shows are released.

The Three Devs and a Maybe podcast hosted by Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann, has posted their latest episode - Episode 2.0 with Joe Watkins.

In this weeks episode we are joined by good friend of the show Joe Watkins. We start off discussion with the successful release of PHP 7.1 and what is in store for Joe now as release manager for that version. Following this, we chat about the libui and Yubico PHP wrappers he as been working on and development of a better Raspberry Pi OS. Finally, we highlight progress made towards incorporating a JiT compiler within PHP and some interesting things you can do with Zero-width joiner’s and Emoji’s in Unicode.

Other topics mentioned include Joe's cross-platform UI development work, LastPass, the X Windows system and the Lua programming language. You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or you can download the mp3 directly. if you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter for updates when new shows are released.

The Three Devs and a Maybe Podcast, with hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann, has posted their latest episode with guest Joe Watkins. In this latest show Joe and the guys talk about handling signals and garbage collection in PHP.

In this weeks episode we have a long overdue catch-up with Joe Watkins. We start off discussion with progress on PHP 7.1 and work Joe has been doing to provide an interface to libui within PHP. We then move on to chat about a couple of interesting RFC’s that are currently under-discussion, followed by managing long-running PHP processes with Supervisor and Unix signaling. Finally, we highlight how Garbage collection works and how PHP implements the concept to help manage memory.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed to get updates on future shows as they're released.

On the Three Devs and a Maybe podcast they've posted a new show where they're joined by Joe Watkins, a core developer on the PHP development team.

In this weeks episode we are lucky to be joined by Joe Watkins. We start off discussion around the development of PHP 7.1 and the recent initial alpha release. Following this, we give an update on a couple of previously mentioned RFC’s, along with how Joe’s ones are doing. This leads us on to highlight how some small proposed changes are paving the way to optimal machine-code and finally integration of a JIT compiler. Some of these proposed changes may result in backwards compatibility breaks, we discuss this topic and when it is deemed acceptable to permit this. Finally, we chat about memorisation, caching and how it is not really feasible to distill a standard caching interface that fits all requirements.

You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 of the show. If you enjoy it, be sure to also subscribe to their feed and get updates on the latest episodes as they're released.

The Three Devs and a Maybe podcast has released their latest episode (#97) where hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann are joined by internals developer Joe Watkins to talk about PHP RFCs targeted for PHP 7.1.

In this episode we are joined by Joe Watkins to discuss the many RFC’s that are in contention to be approved for PHP 7.1. We start off with a congratulations to Joe for his first PHP Release Manager position, highlighting what the role entails and how it is going. We then discuss the RFC process and how there has been a lot of activity over the past couple of weeks within this space.

The concept of ‘Null’ is the first group of RFC’s we discuss, followed by union/intersection types and the pipe operator. We then move on to chat about short closure syntax, functional interfaces and lexical scope within anonymous classes. Finally, we bring up the comparable RFC which has been around for many years and the benefits of having attributes within the language.

In the show notes they have links to all of the RFCs mentioned in the episode (there's lots of them) for your easy reference. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed too.

The Three Devs & a Maybe podcast has published their latest episode, Episode #92 - Where is the Value? with Joe Watkins. This time hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann are joined again by Joe Watkins, a core developer on the PHP language.

In this week’s episode we start off discussion with a recent PHP RFC Joe has been working on in-regard to typed properties, bringing up the value (if any) surrounding getters and setters. We then move on to Joe’s views on designing a programming language, and his mind-set that there should be no defined scope surrounding the features that the language should adopt. Finally, we wrap up the show with an update on how stabilisation of uopz is going for PHP 7, along with a reflection on the ‘Hacking on PHP 7’ screencasts we released earlier this month.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 of the show. You can also subscribe to their feed if you'd like this and other episodes (past and future) delivered right to your client of choice.

The Three Devs and a Maybe podcast has a new episode posted today with special guest Joe Watkins, PHP internals developer and developer on the APCu extension. They catch up with Joe and what's been happening in the world of PHP internals lately (and the flurry of excitement around PHP 7).

On this weeks show we are lucky to be joined by recurring guest and friend of the show Joe Watkins. We start of discussion with the upcoming PHP 7 release, reasoning behind why it has been postponed, the bright future of adoption to the release compared to previous versions and how the release gets packaged up for different distributions.

Other topics mentioned in this latest episode include:

• "uopz" (User Operations for Zend)
• the pthreads polyfill
• the recent APCu events and additions

The show notes also link to several of Joe's projects on GitHub for reference. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. Also be sure to subscribe to their feed if you enjoy the episode and want to hear more.

In the latest Three Devs & A Maybe podcast the hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann are joined by Joe Watkins aka krakjoe for an update on all things PHP.

This week we are lucky to be joined by Joe Watkins, for a general catch-up on a host of PHP-related topics. We start the show off talking about his newly created blog and what drew him to start writing. Following this, we touch upon his first proposed talk on 'Parallel PHP' - hoping to resolve some of the confusion around concurrent terminology and patterns. We then mention his experience looking at YouTube Vitess (for MySQL scaling), and the pros and cons of the team deciding to use Go. His work on strict parameter type-hints is then discussed, along with how the idea has changed over time to be a little less strict. We then highlight the awesome work that Nikic has done for the PHP community, along with his most recent article on the improvements made to PHP's hash-table implementation. PHP 7 and the proposed 5.7 release are then touched upon, followed by the speedy Unicode String implementation. Finally, we discuss the common perception of fear around compiling PHP from source, along with the differences between static and shared libraries.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 of the show and listening at your leisure. If you enjoy the episode, be sure to subscribe to their feed to get the latest episodes as they're released.

The Three Devs & A Maybe podcast has released their latest episode today - Episode #40, News on PHP 7, and how PHP internally works with special guest Joe Watkins. In it the guys talk about the upcoming (major) version of PHP and some of the work Joe's been doing related to Unicode and other parts of the language.

In this weeks show we are very lucky to have Joe Watkins on again to discuss all things PHP 7. Starting off with the decisions behind calling the next release 7, we delve into the reasons for 6 being abandoned. Moving on from this we look into what PHP 7 currently has scheduled to offer, including the PHPNG patch, an AST and maybe Joe's own Unicode String class. We then discuss how a PHP script is internally lexed, parsed/compiled and cached, - including how a JIT would speed up certain use-cases. Finally we touch upon the much requested String type hinting and how a solution similar to Java's could be implemented with minimal hassle.

Other topics mentioned in this episode include: the last PHP 5.3 release ever, PHPNG and upgrading extensions from PHP5 to PHPNG. You can listen to this latest episode either through the downloading the mp3. If you enjoy the episode, consider http://threedevsandamaybe.com/podcast.xml">subscribing to their feed and get the latest shows as they're released.

The PHP Town Hall podcast has released their latest episode today - Episode #18, "PHPDBG, HHVM and Internals". This time the lineup includes Sara Golemon, a developer on the HHVM project, and Joe Watkins, a developer on the PHPDBG project.

Joe Watkins and Sara Golemon join Phil to make one hell of an episode. These two are not only core contributors to PHP, but are behind a lot of RFCs and decisions that make PHP considerably better. We talk about a whole bunch of awesome stuff, including progress of the named parameters RFC - and the chances of it making in, the new accepted PHP 5.6 feature PHPDBG and what it means for you, HHVM and its relationship to “The PHP”, wether PHP should have a spec for implementations of the language, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

You can listen to this latest interview in a few different ways - you can either listen with the in-page player, download the mp3 or you can watch the video of the live Google Hangouts recording.