Displaying episodes 1 - 28 of 28 in total
Automation
In this episode Jeff and Matt talk about how automation can be helpful in your day to day life as a developer.
Working with Legacy
In this episode, Jeff and Matt talk about legacy code and strategies for dealing with legacy applications. They talk about some real-world projects they have worked on...
Project Managers
In this episode Jeff and Matt talk about our friends, allies, and sometimes sworn enemies in the development world: product managers and project managers. They will co...
Systems Administration and DevOps
In this episode Jeff and Matt talk about systems administration and DevOps for developers. This topic is important because, as developers, having an understanding of t...
Minimum Viable Product
In this episode Jeff and Matt talk about the concept of a minimum viable product and what it means to us as developers. The concept of an MVP is simple but it often ge...
Live from PHP[tek] 2015
This is a live mashup episode with PHP Roundtable from php[tek] 2015 where we are joined by Sammy Kaye Powers from PHP Roundtable, Jordi Boggiano from Composer, Codera...
Resolution Won't Fix
In this episode Jeff and Matt talk about a very important skill all developers need to learn: how to say no. Saying no is pretty easy but there are ways to appropriate...
Open Sourcing Libraries and Packages
In this episode Jeff and Matt discuss what it means when you take the step to open sourcing your package or library. This is significantly different than working on an...
Like a Boss
In this episode, Jeff and Matt discuss the benefits and drawbacks to being someone’s employee or to being a freelancer and being your own boss. There are many reasons ...
How We Work
In this episode Jeff and Matt explore how they go about organizing their work life and our personal lives. They cover the idea of how the process evolves depending on ...
Best Practices
In this episode Jeff and Matt will talk about their experiences of getting teams moving on good practices. They will cover times when it has been challenging to convin...
Mentoring and Apprenticing
In this episode Jeff and Matt talk about the idea of establishing and participating in mentoring relationships. As participants in the PHP Mentoring organization or in...
Estimation is Hard
In this episode, Jeff and Matt talk about the difficult task all developers are continuously faced with: estimation. They cover some examples of times they have found ...
Mental Health in the Tech Industry
In this episode, Jeff and Matt discuss mental health, a very important and very personal topic. There is a lot of great work being done right now in our industry to br...
The Not-So-Secret Life of Remote Developers
In this episode, Jeff and Matt talk about some things they have learned about being remote developers. While both are currently employed as remote developers they have...
Job Descriptions and Interviews
In this episode Jeff and Matt will talk about how to look at job descriptions and what to expect during interviews for the jobs you really want to have. They will comb...
Elephpantitus
In this episode Jeff and Matt finally discover the mystery of the Trello card “Elephpantitus” and attempt to cover how important or how unimportant it is to diversify ...
I Learnded Goodly
In this episode Jeff and Matt talk about how we teach and how we learn as developers. Often subjects such as testing or object-oriented programming are taught in ways ...
Titles and Classifications
In this episode Jeff and Matt continue their conversation about careers by discussing their thoughts on titles and classifications of developers. If you’ve ever asked ...
Career Development
In this episode Jeff and Matt discuss experiences with career management and career development. This was the first ever live recording of an episode, broadcast over G...
Do You Even Polyglot?
In this episode Jeff and Matt talk about learning different programming languages and how that can help you become a better developer.
Building a Testing Culture
Jeff and Matt talk about building a culture of testing at your company.
PHPTownHall Mashup
Joint episode with PHPTownHall hosts Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmonds
Side Projects
Jeff and Matt talk about getting involved in projects outside of your normal employment.
An Agile Rant
Jeff and Matt talk about Agile. Agile development and processes.
Conference Conversations
Recorded live at LoneStarPHP 2014, Jeff and Matt talk about conferences.
My Code is Perfect
Writing clean code isn’t something you pick up overnight, nor is it a brand new topic. In this episode Jeff and Matt discuss the characteristics and mechanics of creat...
We're Passionate, Confident Developers, Right?
In this episode Jeff and Matt discuss being passionate developers and how that translates to being a professional developer.