The PHP Town Hall podcast has posted their latest episode with hosts Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmunds - Episode #35, Developer to CTO and Back. This episode features guests Gary Hockin and Jacques Woodcock.

The grass is always greener on the other side, but we have a little talk with Gary Hockin and regular guest Jacques Woodcock about the pros and cons of going up and down the chain of command in the developer world. After all, it doesn’t just need to be a one-way street. We also talk about a few general bits, like whether PHP 5.7 should have happened, should we cry over spilled constructors and Gary bangs on for ages about how Waterfall is better than Agile.

You can listen to this latest episode in a few different ways - either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or watching the recording of the live session over on YouTube. If you enjoy the show be sure to subscribe to their feed for more great episodes.

7PHP.com has posted their latest PHP community interview, this time with Paul Dragoonis, Dragoonis CTO At BestBuys.com.

In this edition I talked with Paul Dragoonis who is the CTO at BestBuys.com. [...] With varied skill-sets and having his hand at so many aspects and projects as you will discover when you read through the interview. He is currently “Rising and Shining” with the new PHP meta framework, named PPI Framework – (stay tuned with me, I will bring you an exclusive interview on PPI soon!) The PPI Guy also brews his own Whisky, urmm.. organizes conferences under the entity named WhiskyWeb..

They talk about things like:

• How he got started with PHP
• Places he's involved with in the community
• His advice to those wanting to be better developers
• A mention of his PPI framework
• Things he's learned from the community

  Check out the full interview here.

On the 7php.com site today they've posted the latest PHP community member interview - this time it's with Eli White, the CTO of Musketeers.me (the group behind MojoLive).

In this edition I talked with [Eli White @EliW], who is currently the Founding Partner and Chief Technical Officer Of Musketeers.me – a consulting firm. Eli was previously the CTO at the social career management platform known as mojoLive and has been working for numerous famous high profile web projects, namely Digg and TripAdvisor amongst others. He was also (back in 2009) the PHP Community Relations Manager and DevZone Editor-in-Chief for Zend Technologies Inc. Elliott White is also the author of the PHP book – PHP 5 in Practice and has attended 30 conferences (at the time of this writing) in which he was a presenter for 49 sessions.

In his answers, Eli talks about things like:

• Some of his interests outside of programming (like Medieval Reenactment)
• What he sees as the current "good parts" and "bad parts" of the PHP language
• He recommendations of resources for PHP beginners
• Software he recommends (testing, CMS, e-commerce)
• The best way he sees to get involved in the community (conferences, user groups, etc)

Paul Wander has posted to the Ibuildings blog today about a new seminar (non-web) one of their CTO, Ivo Jansch, will be giving on the 10th of June at the King's College London:

Are you a sophisticated PHP developer, or a newbie? Either way, you need to make the best of your resources, be they people delivering projects, or hardware serving your customers. Take this opportunity to learn from the industry experts the importance of PHP best practices.

Ivo will be talking PHP in the Enterprise - how good developers are hard to find, keeping code up and running well and how important scalability is to you and your business.

If you would like to attend, you can find contact information at the bottom of this page.