Hey all, I know the release schedule for the Geeks on PHP podcast has been erratic and unpredictable lately. We are currently in the process of revamping the format of the show including me taking over as host and the possibility of adding someone else as co-host. Stephen’s responsibilities with the New Brew Thursday podcast have increased exponentially which is the underlying reason behind the changes going on with Geeks on PHP.

I have a couple people in mind for co-hosts but would love to get feedback from our readers/listeners about what you would like to get out of the show. If any of you are interested in doing a guest spot please get in touch with me either by Email or on Twitter.

I will keep everybody updated as things progress but for now I just wanted to make people aware of what is going on and also that the show is not dead.

Thanks for listening and please don’t hesitate to comment, email or otherwise — your involvement is highly encouraged!

Sincerely,

- Nicholas Kreidberg

This week we dive into Frameworks, and suggest some good coding tools such as TextWrangler, and BBEdit. We also talk a little about SVN repositories and why you should use them.

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Nicholas Kreidberg : http://www.twitter.com/niczak
Stephen Johnson : http://www.twitter.com/darthweef

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Here are the notes, which are basically just links to download the stuff we talked about.

Links to popular Mac Editors:
TextMate: http://macromates.com/
TextWrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/
Coda: http://www.panic.com/coda/

Links to popular Win Editors:
NotePad+: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
PsPad: http://www.pspad.com/
ConText: http://www.contexteditor.org/

Links to popular *nix Editors:
Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/
Vim: http://www.vim.org/
gEdit: http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/

Subversion complete reference guide:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ (Entire book online)

Frameworks:
CakePHP: http://cakephp.org/
CodeIgniter: http://codeigniter.com/
Zend: http://framework.zend.com/

Thanks for listening, and Stay Geeky.

This episode we delve into data types and arrays!  We discuss the life & death need to document your code, and bemoan our own experiences working with bad code.

We include a few “best practice” discussion topics in this weeks episode as well, but  you can look forward to an even more in-depth discussion on best practices both before, and during your development cycle.

For our discussion on data types we talk about casting and converting data types, so here is a little code that you can check out to see how you would accomplish both tasks.

data type casting :
http://www.fortheloveofgeeks.com/downloads/data_cast.txt

data type converting :
http://www.fortheloveofgeeks.com/downloads/data_types_convert.txt

During our array discussion Nick mentioned this code for the show notes found here :

http://www.fortheloveofgeeks.com/downloads/array.txt

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Enjoy the show !

On this weeks episode Stephen and Nicholas talk a little Comic Con, and do a versus run on PHP topics.

Also, Stephen’s dogs insist on joining the show, but they don’t add anything of value to the topics.

For our comic con discussion, if you want to see Stephen’s Flickr stream of photos go here : [ ComiCon Flickr ]

We start the PHP portion of our show with Static Vs. Dynamic and then Server Dynamic vs. Client Dynamic, with some caveats on Client Side scripting.

We also toss a little discussion of Form Validation and Form Sanitation, and Nick gives us some code to use for quick and easy Sanitation of form data. You can get that here : [ Code Snippet ]

We also hit on the overall capabilities and advantages of PHP and do a quick and dirty rundown of PHP vs. ASP.

If you want to set up your own LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server check out this great walk-through : [ How-To ]

Enjoy the show, and tell us how we’re doing in the comments.

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Enjoy the show!

In this weeks episode, Stephen and Nicholas introduce themselves, their history with PHP, and the exciting future for this podcast.

We love validation … and will take criticism.  So let us know what you think in the comments.

So, I have been wrapped up in so many projects that I have not been keeping up with the Geek blog, and for that I apologize, but in an effort to make up for that I am going to be launching a new audio podcast for the geek blog called $deep = this->geeks->thoughts();

If your not a programmer then the humor in title of the podcast will likely escape you, and maybe it will even if you are a programmer, but fear not, this cast will not be limited to programming, and most likely won’t focus on that much at all, since there is soon to be a PHP podcast coming to the site as well.. It really will be me talking about random geek topics.  Comics, movies, games, computers, tech, photography, whatever.

It may not even always be me.  I will open the cast up to Allen and Nick to do as well, whenever they feel the compulsion.

So you’re thinking, why in gods name would I want to sit and listen to you ramble on about geek stuff.  Well, you might not, and if not that’s cool, but truth be told the three of us are pretty knowledgable, and even have a decent sense of humor, so you might just find that we entertain and educate you, and you will more then likely share quite a few of our views, and when you don’t let us know, we love discussion.

So for what’s worth, it will be here on a indeterminate schedule with no real set length other then a guarantee that it won’t go more then 10 minutes or so.

You will be able to find the podcast here, and I will be pushing the feed to iTunes as well.