Pascal Martin has posted his latest summary of topics and conversations from August on the php.internals mailing list.

I’ve been quite busy in August (and I’ve taken some holidays, during which I pretty much had no Internet access, which doesn’t help), and I haven’t been able to write my digest of internals@ for July 2014 in due time. Instead of writing it now and keeping getting late for August’s one, I’ve chosen to skip my digest of July - and to write August’s one, which you can read below.

He summarizes the around 700 messages on the list in August, including a graph showing them broken out over the days of the month. Topics up for discussion in August included:

• the first Release Candidate of PHP 5.3.29 and the PHP 5.3.29 final release (EOL for 5.3)
• release plans (bugfixes) for PHP 5.4
• the release of PHP 5.6 was getting close
• a thread wondering if they should do one last 5.x version before the release of PHP 7
• the conversation around the RFC for moving the phpng branch into master,

Check out the full post for the details on each of these and more of the happenings on the internals list during August.

The latest issue of the php[architect] magazine has officially been released - August 2014, Beyond PHP.

In an increasingly multi-hat career environment, most PHP Devs are often asked to knock out some front end development from time-to-time. This is not as unusual as you may think. Having learned coding in the home-baked-what-the-hell-are-we-doing-dot-com 1.0 world, we were often expected to do everything from cradle to grave. While duties are a lot more (and rightfully so) siloed between front and back end developers than in 1998, we are still expected to (at least) understand the different life-cycles of web development and design.

The articles in this month's issue include a wide range of topics including:

• "MeteorJS – It’s Not PHP But Darn It’s Cool" (Alan Blount)
• "Building a Plugin System with Composer" (Maarten Balliauw)
• "A Modern Front End Through the Eyes of a PHP Developer" (Aurelio De Rosa)
• "The Confident Coder: What Type Are You?" (Aaron Saray)

You can pick up a copy to call your own (either print or digital) directly from the php[architect] site. If you like the magazine, consider picking up a year subscription too!