Episode 34: Is Sara Pissed?

This time out our Very Special Guest is Sara Goleman, long-time PHP core contributor, author of the only good book on writing extensions for PHP and the driving force behind that open source projects of HipHop for PHP, a virtual machine, runtime and Just-In-Time compiler for PHP that powers much of Facebook’s infrastructure. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 29MB, 1:05:09) Links and Notes In our usual epic-length conversation we talked about: The HipHop Virtual Machine The soul-crushing experience of the “PHP internals” mailing list Ed’s Open Sourcing Mental Illness Summer Tour The TrueNorthPHP Call for Papers opened up and the code is open source Discussions about how the three of us find the energy to give a shit about everything Alternate books from the Bible Comforting sounds to work too Finally, how can we tell if Sara is pissed? Also, as a totally random thing from the show notes, you might want to take a look at Blue Hackers