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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 27: Introducing PECL Picks

November 30, 2007

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Episode 27: Introducing PECL Picks

Elizabeth SmithSpecial Guest: Elizabeth Smith
Release Date: 11/30/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Todays special guest is Elizabeth Marie Smith. I quote now from her “About Me” page of her blog, a link to which can be found in the show notes. Elizabeth has been using PHP since time immemorial but has used PHP 5 for so long now she’s forgotten how she ever got by without SPL and a real object model. She is a certifiable geek, if it can be compiled on windows, she’ll compile it, if not…she’ll fix it so it does. She enjoys doing very perverse things to Windows using PHP as well – all this in between caring for her 4 kids and husband.

Today Elizabeth is going to share with us about PECL, the PHP Extension Community Library.

Show Notes for Episode 27

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About Cal Evans

Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We're using the term "computer" loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC's. For the past 10 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built on a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of "management by wandering around". Cal is currently based in Nashville, TN and is gainfully unemployed as the Chief Marketing Officer of Blue Parabola, LLC. Cal is happily married to wife 1.28, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 kids who were both bright enough not to pursue a career in IT. Cal blogs at http://blog.calevans.com and is the founder and host of Day Camp 4 Developers

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One Response to “PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 27: Introducing PECL Picks”

  1. quorion Says:
    December 1, 2007 at 12:18 am

    I think this podcast series, not to mention the idea itself, is great. I know from both personal experience and from talking to a lot of PHP programmers that Pecl is a scary to venture, especially since it is safe and comfortable to stay writing PHP libraries instead of php extensions.

    The biggest problem I’ve found when trying to get into writing extensions, even if it’s just for fun, is the lack of resources. The pecl web site has some links but they are not that many. And from those that there are some turned absolete since before the invention of the light bulb and the rest don’t work at all.

    For this reason, thank you for the book reference, Extending and Embedding PHP. Last published in 2006 so it is fairly new and possibly even worth reading. I am going to check my local book store for it shortly :)

    Other than that, I look forward to the next episode. If at all possible, the more resources and advices you can share with the rest of us, the better. I cannot emphasize (hope I spelled that right) this enough. If there is a shortage in pecl developers, it’s probably (at least partially) due to the lack of helpful resources in getting started.

    Tomi