Summary: This conversation with Beth Tucker Long (@e3bethtl) is the one of a series of interviews Campbell Vertesi (@CampbellVertesi) and I carried out in preparation for DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. Now, we're sharing all the good stuff we captured but didn’t have time to cover in 40 minutes in Mumbai. Our session, Meet PHP-FIG: Your community just got a whole lot bigger, Drupal is about Drupal 8’s membership in the new, interoperable PHP community. We’re covering the basics of what the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG) is, what the various PSRs are and do, talk about testing and dependency management, and what it means to be a part of the new PHP community — including having better architecture, cleaner code, and more interoperability. All of this adds up to a big move to get projects “off their islands,” saving developers a lot of code, and companies a lot of money, among other benefits. I apologize for the poor audio quality in this recording and hope the quality of the conversation makes up for it. Selected quotes from this conversation with Beth Tucker Long: "All right. Hello, Drupal. My name is Beth Tucker-Long, and I am so excited that Drupal 8 is out. Way to go! We’re very proud of you. I am really excited about Drupal 8 because it represents so much community involvement, working together. I’m so excited that we have so many big projects from the PHP side of things and the Drupal side of things working together, and I just can’t wait to see, with all this brainpower that we have merged into this project, where we go from here." “I really love the fact that now we can say, “Hey, we are all PHP developers, and these are the technologies that we use to help us, and as PHP developers, we are putting forth these standards, so we can all work together and not be so splintered.” That was my main motivation for supporting FIG.” "As long as we, as a community, are encouraging new developers to be FIG-compliant as they come into it, non-FIG-compliant code is going to start looking like old legacy code." "So, writing a quick and dirty thing 10 times is going to take longer than writing it the right way once and being able to reuse it." Guest dossier Name: Beth Tucker Long Work affiliation: Treeline Design Twitter: @e3betht LinkedIn: Elizabeth Tucker Long GitHub: e3betht Blog/Website: "A little of both" http://www.alittleofboth.com/about-me/ About: Beth Tucker Long is a PHP developer and co-organizer of Madison PHP. Beth is a firm believer in promoting community and mentoring. She runs Treeline Design, a web development company, and Playlist Event Music, a DJ company, along with her husband, Chris. Interview video - 27 min. Full conversation transcript jam: We are Campbell Vertesi ... My name is Jam. I work for Acquia. My title is Evangelist and I’m in Developer Relations. We have a special guest today. Would you like to introduce yourself? Beth: I am Beth Tucker-Long, and I am an independent consultant working with PHP. I do work with Drupal on a number of my projects and lots of other things, because as a consultant, I work on whatever you’ll pay me to work on, so ... the life of a consultant. jam: Right. Over the last however many years it’s been, you were actually, in a way, at the center of what I like to call the PHP Renaissance, so you were definitely a keen observer of this coming together of all these different PHP technologies from being very disparate, siloed implementations of the language back to being something like community. I’m thinking particularly of your role at php[architect]. Beth: Yes. I worked at php[architect] for seven years. I was involved in Tek when PHP-FIG was started at php[tek], and it was a very exciting time. Also, I was doing consulting then as well, so it’s an exciting time for me as well because having to work with all these...
