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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:06:35 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Laura Beth Denker]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17633</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17633</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode - an <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2012/03/06/307/">interview with <i>Laura Beth Denker</i> of <a href="http://etsy.com">Etsy</a>.
</p>
<p><i>Cal</i>'s "three questions" for her were:</p>
<ul>
<li>What's your title, what it means and what do you do? ("Anthropologist of Developer Culture")
<li>Can you talk about the toolset Etsy uses for continuous integration?
<li>Can you discuss private methods and why you like them?
</ul>
<p>
You can listen to this latest episode either via the <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2012/03/06/307/">in-page player</a>, by <a href="http://voices.of.the.elephpant.s3.amazonaws.com/vote_042.mp3">downloading the mp3 directly</a> or by <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/feed/podcast/">subscribing to their feed</a>.
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:42:42 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Marcelo Gornstein's Blog: Unit test your PHP IVR applications with PAGI]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17613</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17613</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
<i>Marcelo Gornstein</i> has a recent post to his blog about a method he's come up with to test your PHP-based IVR ("interactive voice response" systems for telephony) applications <a href="http://marcelog.github.com/articles/pagi_mock_client_unit_test_ivr_application_telephony_asterisk_agi.html">with the help of PAGI</a>.
</p>
<blockquote>
Since version 1.9.2, <A href="http://marcelog.github.com/PAGI/">PAGI</a> comes with a mock of a pagi client, suitable to be used in your own unit tests, so you can test your telephony applications, like IVRs. The idea behind the mocked client is to let you test the callflow side of your application, the user interaction and the exact sequence an ivr application should obey. Let's see how to use it.
</blockquote>
<p>
He shows how to test a <a href="http://marcelog.github.com/articles/pagi_tutorial_create_voip_telephony_application_for_asterisk_with_agi_and_php.html">basic PAGI application</a> by hooking in the PAGI client into his <a href="https://github.com/marcelog/Pagi-App-And-Test-Example/blob/master/test/php/App/AppTest.php">PHPUnit test</a> for the app and the <a href="http://marcelog.github.com/articles/pagiexamplecoverage.png">code coverage</a> of the result. The <a href="http://ci.marcelog.name:8080/job/PAGI/javadoc/db_Client_Impl_MockedClientImpl.html#%5CPAGI%5CClient%5CImpl%5CMockedClientImpl">MockedClientImpl</a> client lets you test the application without having the external dependency of actually running it. He includes some examples of commands and how they'd be mocked out with this client as well as a handy list of the "on*" methods available (like "onDial" or "onSayAlpha").
</p>
<p>
You can find the complete source for everything in the article <a href="https://github.com/marcelog/Pagi-App-And-Test-Example">on his github account</a>.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:25:49 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Luke Stokes]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17600</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17600</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest episode - an <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2012/02/28/interview-with-luke-stokes/">interview with Luke Stokes</a>, a co-founder of <a href="http://foxycart.com">FoxyCart</a>.
</p>
<p><i>Cal</i>'s "three questions" for <i>Luke</i> were:</p>
<ul>
<li>Why did you choose PHP to build the Foxycart platform?
<li>What did you learn in the process of becoming PCI certified?
<li>What lessons do you have for people looking to put together a platform and an API?
</ul>
<p>
You can listen to this latest episode either via the <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2012/02/28/interview-with-luke-stokes/">in-page player</a> or by <a href="http://voices.of.the.elephpant.s3.amazonaws.com/vote_041.mp3">downloading the mp3</a> directly.
</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:16:31 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Chris Shiflett]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17551</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17551</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/08/04/interview-with-chris-shiflett/">released their latest episode</a>, an interview with <a href="http://shiflett.org">Chris Shiflett</a> (as recorded in 2011).
</p>
<p>
In the interview they talk about things like:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Chris'</i> security experience
<li>The PHP community's shifting focus on security
<li>What's the biggest security mistake PHP developers still make?
<li>Cross-site request forgeries
<li>Chris' current work with Mapalong
</ul>
<p>
You can listen to this latest episode either by <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/08/04/interview-with-chris-shiflett/">using the in-page player</a> or by <a href="http://voices.of.the.elephpant.s3.amazonaws.com/vote_039.mp3">downloading the mp3</a> directly. You can also <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/feed/podcast/">subscribe to their feed</a> to get the latest.
</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:16:40 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Elizabeth Naramore]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17507</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17507</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode (one recorded a while back) - an <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/08/02/interview-with-elizabeth-naramore">interview with Elizabeth Naramore</a>, a well-known PHP community member.
</p>
<blockquote>
This episode was recorded in 2011. Elizabeth now works for <a href="http://orchestra.io/">Orchestra.io</a>. It's still a fun interview though because...well, it's Elizabeth.
</blockquote>
<p>
You can find her blog <a href="http://naramore.net/blog/">here</a> and follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/elizabethn">here</a>. If you'd like to listen to this latest episode, you can either <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/08/02/interview-with-elizabeth-naramore/">listen in-page</a> or <a href="http://voices.of.the.elephpant.s3.amazonaws.com/vote_038.mp3">download the mp3 directly</a>.
</p>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:16:18 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[PHPBuilder.com: Create PHP Voice Recognition Apps on the Cheap]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17410</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/17410</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
On PHPBuilder.com today <i>Jason Gilmore</i> has a new tutorial showing how to <a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/Voice_Recognition/PHP_Voice_Recognition_1-12-2012.php3">create voice recognition applications</a> with PHP and the help of open source voice interpretation tools.
</p>
<blockquote>
Voice recognition or speech recognition technology is not easy to develop. In-house development would be very costly, and buying proprietary libraries that convert voice to text would make the developed application very expensive for end users. On the other hand, when developing in PHP, you have many open-source solutions available. The same dilemma happens with voice recognition in PHP -- there is an open-source class that can be used in voice applications. That way your application would cost less, and you also can offer it for free.
</blockquote>
<p>
His tool of choice is <a href="http://freecode.com/projects/phpvoice">Voice PHP</a>, an open source project that uses four classes with support for SSML, SRGS, CCXML and VoiceXML. In his sample application he shows how to use the libraries to generate an application that can listen to a user's voice and translate that into certain menu options.
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:49:14 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Sean Coates]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16646</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16646</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted it's latest episode - an <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/07/28/interview-with-sean-coates/">interview with Sean Coates</a> (of <a href="http://gimmiebar.com">Gimmie Bar</a>).
</p>
<p>
<i>Cal</i> asks <i>Sean</i> his three questions about various projects and topics he's involved with:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Can you talk to us about what you see about the process of how PHP is developed and is this a positive or a negative?
<li>Can you give us a quick synopsis of why Gimmie Bar moved from CouchDb to MongoDb and are you still confident that it was the right decision?
<li>Can you talk a bit about your experience with Node.js?
</ul>
<p>
You can listen to this episode either using the <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/07/28/interview-with-sean-coates/">in-page player</a>, by <a href="http://voices.of.the.elephpant.s3.amazonaws.com/vote_036.mp3">downloading the mp3</a>
</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:09:13 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Derick Rethans]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16633</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16633</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode - an <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/07/26/interview-with-derick-rethans/">interview with Derick Rethans</a>, the author of the popular PHP debugger <a href="http://xdebug.org">XDebug</a> and a core contributor to the PHP project.
</p>
<p>
<i>Cal</i>'s questions mainly revolve around <i>Derick</i>'s contributions the PHP core (and one on <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a>):
</p>
<ul>
<li>Do you consider the current way PHP is developed functional or broken (and why)?
<li>What would you do to change the way PHP is developed and why would you want to do it that way?
<li>Explain to us what OpenStreetMap and why you think this is an important project.
</ul>
<p>
You can listen to this latest episode either by using the <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/07/26/interview-with-derick-rethans/">in-page player</a>, by <a href="http://voices.of.the.elephpant.s3.amazonaws.com/vote_035.mp3">downloading the mp3</a> or by <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/feed/podcast/">subscribing to their feed</a>.
</p>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:53:24 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Rafael Dohms]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16615</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16615</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
On the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/07/21/interview-with-rafael-dohms/">latest interview</a> with a member of the PHP community. This time it's <i>Rafael Dohms</i>, a member of the Brazilian PHP community.
</p>
<p>
<i>Cal</i>'s questions for <i>Rafael</i> are related to
<ul>
<li>The Brazilian PHP community has an umbrella organization that supports the local communities - can you describe how this works?
<li>Can you explain the differences in the communities between the two countries [USA and Brazil]?
<li>What one thing from the Brazilian PHP community would you like to see other communities use?
</ul>
</p>
<p>
You can listen to this latest episode either via the <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/07/21/interview-with-rafael-dohms/">in-page player</a>, by <a href="http://voices.of.the.elephpant.s3.amazonaws.com/vote_034.mp3">downloading the mp3</a> or by <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/feed/podcast/">subscribing to their feed</a>.
</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:52:07 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with David Rodgers]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16608</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16608</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
New on the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast is <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/07/19/interview-with-david-rogers/">an interview with David Rogers</a>, the organizer for the Orlando PHP User Group (Florida).
</p>
<p>
<i>Cal</i> asks <i>David</i> a few questions about his involvement in this group:
<ul>
<li>Why did you get involved with the user group and why get involved in the leadership of it?
<li>Why did you decide to allow recruiters to post to your mailing list and has it had any kind of negative impact on the group or list?
<li>What was the coolest or best thing that you've done for a meeting?
</ul>
</p>
<p>
As always, you can listen either by <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2011/07/19/interview-with-david-rogers/">using the in-page player</a>, <a href="http://voices.of.the.elephpant.s3.amazonaws.com/vote_033.mp3">downloading the mp3</a> or by <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/feed/podcast/">subscribing to their feed</a>.
</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:52:47 -0500</pubDate>
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