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d11wtq conquers the php|abstract podcast!
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:46 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Our very own d11wtq, aka Chris Corbyn of Swiftmailer fame, has hosted an episode of Zend Devzone's php|abstract podcast. You can download it over at:
http://devzone.zend.com/article/2213-PH ... wiftMailer
I'm downloading it now for a good listen

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If you haven't used
SwiftMailer yet, go get a copy and start using it. It's the coolest Mail library in PHP.
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:54 am
by matthijs
Thanks for the link. Downloading now. Always good to hear to a voice behind a personality you only know from a forum/email.
Bit off-topic: I really had to search for the download link of the podcast. Didn't realize it was the header of the piece of text. Funny, how things like that happen, even for a seasoned internet user like me... shows how important it is to make the main actions very, very, very obvious (maybe these big bright web 2.0 -ish buttons do have a function after all)
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:04 pm
by Oren
Yep, I also tried pretty much all the other links on the page before the actual link to the file.
Downloading right now...

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:08 pm
by Luke
I clicked every link but the podcast as well.
I just noticed on my google homepage the words "PHP Abstract and Swiftmailer" and I was like no... Chris must be the special guest! Awesome! I'll have to listen in a bit. Very cool.
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:16 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:27 pm
by Oren
Sure you can have a second chance... and you'll get another $75, so why not?

Man I could barely hear you. I use earphones (I don't have speakers here

) and I put the sound all the way up till the max and I still couldn't hear you. So I just downloaded it to my desktop and from there to my iPod - where I could raise the sound much more than I can on my comp.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:28 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Oren wrote:Man I could barely hear you.
I just recorded it, Zend do all the production work on it

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:50 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Awesome dude. That was a cool little interview. And it is awesome to be able to put your Scottish accent to your handle now.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:10 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Everah wrote:Awesome dude. That was a cool little interview. And it is awesome to be able to put your Scottish accent to your handle now.

*cough* not scottish, but people who aren't from England always make that mistake. I'm from North East England several hundred miles south of scotland

Most people would just call me a Geordie (pronounced Jaw-dee) but technically I'm not from Newcastle so I'm not a Geordie neither. Burrito said I sounded scottish too when he first heard me testing a web conference app

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:13 pm
by Luke
That's exactly what I was thinking... I'm always trying to put an accent on a forum personality and it is very difficult to do.
Chris, don't worry you sounded fine. Much better than Mathew O'Phinney or whatever his name is. He makes me want to stab myself in the head when he talks.

Oren is right about the production though, it is very difficult to hear you. Nice work man.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:21 pm
by RobertGonzalez
That's funny because he came through loud and clear in Winblows Media Player 11. And my volume was only at about 25%.
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:30 pm
by JayBird
Came through loud and clear here!!
LOL at the Scottish comment

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:32 pm
by Chris Corbyn
JayBird wrote:Came through loud and clear here!!
LOL at the Scottish comment

Being from York, do you say Forty or Fotty ? I've heard people say thing like 4:40 as Four-Fotty before and makes me chuckle

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:54 pm
by JayBird
No, i say Forty, but im from leeds originally