139: Mobile Internet isn't Cheap! with Joe Watkins

Three Devs and a Maybe

In this episode we catch up with Joe Watkins to discuss all things PHP. We start off discussion with his recent move to Spain, the pain of getting a good Internet connection and PHP TestFest. This leads us on to highlight some recent work he is doing with adding PHP bindings to Bicoin’s Secp256k1 library and a Generic Traits idea. From here we touch upon the additions that made it into PHP 7.2 and some that have already been accepted for 7.3. Finally, we get Joe’s opinion on a couple of RFC’s (Call-site pass-by-reference and Operator functions).

Show Links

• Accessing the internet is giving me a headache, until I look out the window…
• Musings, ninja ones - Test Etiquette
• PHP TestFest
• krakjoe/wkhtmltox - Converting HTML to X since 2017
• Secp256k1 - Bitcoin Wiki
• bitcoin-core/secp256k1 - Optimized C library for EC operations on curve secp256k1
• How to find and patch a bug in PHP source - Sammy Kaye Powers
• Writing tests for PHP source - Sammy Kaye Powers
• PHP 7.2.0 Release Announcement
• PHP - libsodium
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• PHP - pack
• PHP - unpack
• PHP RFC - UUID
• PHP RFC - Explicit call-site pass-by-reference
• PHP RFC - Operator functions