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PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 2 – Backup or Die

June 7, 2007

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Episode 2: Backup or Die

Special Guest: Matthew Weier O’Phinney
Release Date: 06/07/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Matthew talks about the importance of using a change management system.

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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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5 Responses to “PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 2 – Backup or Die”

  1. war59312 Says:
    June 8, 2007 at 3:08 am

    Hi,

    I am unable to listen to this episode of this podcast because of the most unbearable and annoying background noise ever. Gave me a head ace after the first minute. :( I don’t see how you missed it.

    So please fix this issue or I simply will be unable to listen in the future. I hope future episodes do not have this issue. I give you benefit of the doubt since the first episode is fine.

    Thanks,

    Will

  2. admin Says:
    June 8, 2007 at 4:22 am

    Hi,

    Thanks for the comment. Yes, there was a background noise in this episode although you are more sensitive to it than my old ears. As this is only our second episode, there are still kinks in the system but we are working to fix them.

    Thanks for listening, I hope you will continue.

    =C=

  3. weierophinney Says:
    June 10, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    My apologies for the background noise. Just days before I recorded the podcast, I trashed the fan on my laptop experimenting with Zend_Search_Lucene and indexing some large quantities of content. I’ve figured out how to fix the noise now, and new podcasts should be much better in quality.

  4. war59312 Says:
    June 12, 2007 at 6:40 am

    Hi,

    Great, glad to see you already know about the issue and are taking steps to correct it. :)

    I will continue to listen to the podcast. Good job! :)

    Take Care,

    Will

  5. auricle Says:
    June 14, 2007 at 7:51 am

    After listening to the first couple of abstracts, I sense that at times you might be asking speakers to record themselves. In that case, control over the sound quality is impossible.

    Since this one is with a Zend employee, you could have used some sort of ‘standard’ set-up (if you have one yet!). It sounds as if there’s some sort of feedback happening; perhaps Matthew was monitoring the recorder’s output with a mixer and managed to mix the monitoring back into the recorder input along with his voice.

    Do this:
    mic -> mic preamp -> recorder input -> (plays through while recording) -> recorder output -> monitoring system -> headphones

    The monitoring system should not mixed with the audio going to the recorder input. It’s most easily achieved by completely separating input and monitoring.