The PHP Roundtable podcast has posted their latest episode recorded live at the Lone Star PHP Conference that just happened in Dallas, Texas. In it host Sammy Powers is joined by a big cast of characters: Chris Tankersley, Anthony Ferrara, Jeremy Mikola, Elizabeth Smith, Daniel Cousineau, Magnus Nordlander and Jared Farrish.

We record live from Lone Star PHP 2016 in Dallas, TX. We discuss what DI Containers aren't, tradeoffs to making things easy, how to improve your dev skills, repercussions of depending on Composer, PHP 7.1 features and we give away a white Confoo elePHPant.

Unfortunately the internet connection at the venue wasn't great, so the video/audio quality is a bit lacking. You can still watch and listen to the episode through the in-page audio and video player or directly on YouTube. 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 (and when they're recording).

The Lone Star PHP Conference, happening April 7th-9th in Dallas, Texas, has officially announced their schedule for this year's event. This three day event (one training day and two days of regular sessions) will feature talks like:

• "Is Your API Misbehaving?" (Keith Casey)
• "TDD with PhpSpec" (Ciaran McNulty)
• "Stop multiplying by 4: Practical software estimation" (Chuck Reeves)
• "Writing Workers For Scalable Application" (Gary Hockin)
• "Demystifying OAuth2: an understandable way to approach connecting to other systems" (Joseph Maxwell)
• "Building PHP Daemons & Long Running Processes" (Tim Lytle)
• "The Present and Future of WordPress's REST API" (David Hayes)

...and many more. Be sure to check out the whole schedule for more information and descriptions of these and other sessions happening over the three-day event. Tickets are also already on sale if you'd like to grab them at Early Bird prices while you can!