The PHP Roundtable podcast has released their latest episode - Episode #62: All Things Laravel. In this episode host Sammy Powers is joined by Adam Wathan, Jeffrey Way, Mohamed Said, Dries Vints and the creator of Laravel Taylor Otwell.

In the episode they "chat about all things Laravel" including:

• a quick overview of the mission and what to expect from the framework
• some of the functionality the framework includes
• the "refactoring to collections" content from Adam
• features that were inspired by other languages
• reflection-based dependency injection
• the idea of a forum as a "default application" for those new to the framework

You can catch this latest episode either using the in-page video player or directly over on YouTube. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get updates when the latest shows are released.

The Cloudways blog has posted another in their series of community interviews today. This time they talk with Dries Vints, an active member of the Laravel community.

Dries Vints is a Lead Developer at BeatSwitch, a festival management software. He maintains the Laravel.io community portal as well. He has been the publisher of Laravel Weekly. He is the creator of Lock, a popular PHP ACL package. He is living and working in Antwerp, Belgium.

In the interview Dries answers questions about:

• His own career and history as a developer
• His work at BeatSwitch and the Lock library
• When he first discovered Laravel
• Opinions on the Laravel and PHP communities
• Some of his own hobbies and interests

You can check out the full interview with answers to these and more questions about Dries.