The Three Devs and a Maybe podcast have released their latest show, Episode #18 - Introduction to Web Application Frameworks.

This week we introduce web application frameworks into the software development mix. Starting of with what they actually are, we move on to the benefits and useful feature set they provide you.

There's a lot of things mentioned in this episode including topics like:

• PHP-CPP - A C++ library for developing PHP extensions
• The Y (Fixed-Point) Combinator in PHP
• What is a Web Framework?
• What Does Micro Mean? - Flask

There's also mention of several PHP frameworks out there (both full-stack and micro) like Slim, Laravel, Zend Framework and CodeIgniter. You can listen to this latest episode either by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed to get this and other recent shows.