The PHP Rountable podcast, hosted by PHP community member Sammy K Powers, has posted their latest episode - Episode #80: PHP Internals: Preloading, FFI & More. In this episode, Sammy is joined by core developers Sara Golemon and *
Nikita Popov*.

We'll be deep-diving into some PHP internals goodness that you won't want to miss. We'll go behind the scenes of preloading, a possible foreign function interface (FFI), typed properties, a password hashing registry and more.

You can catch this latest episode either using the in-page video player or by watching it directly on YouTube. 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 PHP Rountable podcast, hosted by PHP community member Sammy K Powers, has posted their latest episode focusing on GDPR for developers. In it he's joined by guests Michelangelo van Dam and Wim Godden.

The first major piece of legislation that we've seen attempt to regulate how our personal information is handled on the web is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Today we chat with some panelist who have gone down the GDPR-compliance road and they are going to help us PHP devs understand how the GDPR affects us and what we can do to make sure our technology stack is as GDPR-compliant as possible.

You can catch this latest episode in a few different ways: either using the in-page audio/video player, watching the video directly on YouTube or grabbing the audio file directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to follow them on Twitter and subscribe to their feed to get updates on when future shows are released.

The PHP Roundtable podcast, hosted by PHP community member Sammy K Powers, has posted a new episode: Episode #78 - DocBlocks, Annotations, PSR-5 & The Like. In this show Sammy is joined by * Chuck Burgess*, Marco Pivetta, Rasmus Schultz, Margaret Staples and Alexey Gopachenko

We discuss DocBlocks, PSR-5, Annotations, reflection, automatic API documentation generation, and their future in PHP.

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The PHP Rountable podcast, hosted by PHP community member Sammy K Powers, has posted their latest episode - Episode #77: Tech Interviews for Self-Taught PHP Programmers. In this episode Sammy is joined by Frank de Jonge, Parker Phinney and Gayle Laakmann McDowell.

Self-taught PHP programmers, even those of us with decades of experience, would likely fail a tech interview in an epic way. If you've ever wanted to work for a big tech company like Google, Amazon or Facebook but have always been too nervous about the tech interview, this episode is for you.

We chat about what we need to do to be fully prepared for a tech interview. And maybe soon you'll be showing your friends how to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard.

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The PHP Roundtable podcast, hosted by PHP community member Sammy Kaye Powers, has posted their latest episode - Episode #76: Concurrency, Generators & Coroutines - Oh My!. In this episode Sammy is joined by Cees-Jan Kiewiet, Sergey Zhuk and Brent Roose.

PHP has had support for coroutines since PHP 5.5 and it allows you to do some really cool non-blocking stuff. We chat about concurrency in PHP and how we might be able to use it to speed up our apps.

You can watch this latest episode either using the in-page video player or you can watch it directly over on YouTube. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter for updates on when new shows are released.

The PHP Roundtable podcast has posted their latest episode - Episode #74: Secrets, Secrets, Are No Fun. In this episode, host Sammy K Powers is joined by Chris Cornutt, Nicolas Grekas, Adam Englander and Scott Arciszewski.

Secrets, secrets, are no fun, all they do is cause pain when trying to deploy to production. By secrets, we're talking about database passwords, API keys, and other credentials that we want to keep from prying eyes.

There are a number of solutions out there to keep our secrets out of the codebase and in a more secure area. We'll discuss the options we have for managing secrets and the tradeoffs for using them.

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The PHP Roundtable podcast, hosted by PHP community member Sammy Powers, has posted their latest episode: #73 - PHP Static Analysis. In this episode Sammy is joined by Ond?ej Mirtes, Craig Duncan, Vladimir Reznichenko and Damien Seguy.

Static analysis is a fancy word to describe a tool that looks at our code and gives us helpful hints on how to improve it. We'll be discussing what static analyzers do, which tools the PHP community has access to, and how we can incorporate the tools into our daily development flow.

You can catch this latest episode in a few different ways: either using the in-page audio or video player, by downloading the audio file directly or by watching the recording over on Youtube. 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 PHP Roundtable podcast, hosted by PHP community member Sammy Powers, has posted their latest episode: Episode #71 - Extra, extra: PHP 7.2 released!.

The next major version of PHP is here! PHP 7.2 comes with a nice set of upgrades, performance enhancements, and a brand new crypto library right out of the box. We discuss some of the features and breaking changes that we should be aware of before upgrading to PHP 7.2.

In this episode, Sammy is joined by Scott Arciszewski and Craig Duncan to discuss the updates in this latest version and how you can make the upgrade without too many things breaking. You can catch this episode either by using the in-page audio and video player, by downloading the audio directly or by watching the recording over on YouTube directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter for updates on when future shows are recorded and released.

The PHP Roundtable podcast, hosted by PHP community memeber Sammy K Powers, has posted its latest episode: Episode #68 - PHP's Dirty Little Segfault Secret. This time Sammy is joined by guest and core PHP developer Sara Golemon

PHP is known for running really bad code really well. But it has a dirty little secret: deep within its code is a hidden "stack bomb". You can cause PHP to completely crash with just a few lines of code. Today we discuss why this happens and what we can do to fix the issue.

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

The PHP Roundtable podcast, hosted by Sammy Powers has posted their latest episode: Episode #67: Imposter syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect . This time Sammy is joined by guests Ryan Welcher and Wendy MacIntyre.

In an industry like software engineering where it seems like there's always something else to learn, it's easy to come down with a case of imposter syndrome. We chat about imposter syndrome's impact on the PHP community and contrast it with the Dunning-Kruger effect.

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