The SitePoint Web blog has a recent post with two things that are on the radar when it comes to PHP - the upcoming PHP version and the practice of dependency injection.

To change things up a bit, we’re going to start bringing to you items and information from those discussions that have caught our attention. Sometimes these discussions will be useful and interesting, and sometimes they may be challenging or insightful. Either way, they’re likely to bring new information to light that you haven’t come across before, and will help to provide insight and perspective on topics you’re interested in.

He starts with an overview of the controversy surrounding PHP 7 including its name, feature removal and links to some responses to the proposed changes. The second topic, dependency injection, how it might be evil and some of the opinions that have been expressed around it.