php|architect has posted the latest episode of their P3 podcast to the C7Y community website today - "Slow News Month".

Paul, Beth and Sean struggle to find relevant news. Summer is slow, but fortunately, our PHP-friends Derick Rethans and Ed Finkler helped us out. Big thanks to them for saving the day.

You can grab this latest episode off of their feed or just download it directly from the site.

The Zend Developer Zone has released the latest episode of their PHP Abstract podcast - Episode 8, a look at the CodeIgniter framework as hosted by Ed Finkler.

Our special guest today is Ed Finkler. Ed is a web application developer, security expert, graphic designer, and dabbling musician. He works for CERIAS at Purdue University, and is a member of the PHP Security Consortium. Today Ed is going to give us the lowdown on the PHP based framework, CodeIgniter.

You can download this episode directly here or just subscribe to the podcast feed to get all of the past and future episodes of these quick doses of PHP wisdom.

Terry Chay has some of his own comments surrounding the latest episode of the Pro::PHP Podcast, an interview with Ed Finkler about the state of PHP security.

Ed Finkler agrees with me. Thanks Ed. :-) Listen to the podcast. It's a realistic assessment of the state of security in PHP.

He also includes a favorite quote from the podcast (as said by Ed):

If web developer doesn't understand common security issues they shouldn't be considered developers...[Web applications] essentially are dealing with data that someone is inputting there. As a developer of web applications, you are essentially stewards of that data.

On the PHP Security blog today, Stefan Esser points out one of the latest episodes of the Pro::PHP Podcast in which Ed Finkler got to talk a little bit about PHP security (seeing as how he's involved with the PHPSecInfo project). One of the things he (Ed) specifically mentions in the interview is the Month of PHP Bugs that Stefan recently wrapped up.

Today I learned about a podcast interview of Ed Finkler one of the members of the PHP Security Consortium. I heard through the first 30 minutes and was kinda bored because it was not really about PHP Security but about educating PHP developers, which is a subtopic of PHP Application Security which itself is a subtopic of PHP Security. I already wanted to switch it off when at around 34:32 they started talking about the Month of PHP Bugs.

Stefan also notes that Ed didn't mention that several of the MoPB issues had already been released to the PHP group but had yet to of been corrected. Be sure to check out the podcast for yourself, though and see what you think of Ed's comments about PHP security and the MoPB initiative.

In a new installation of the Pro::PHP Podcast just released, Paul Reinheimer sits down and talks with Ed Finkler, "web and security archive administrator".

Ed Finkler is also a primary developer on the PHPSecInfo project, an effort to help bring a baseline of security to developers and their applications:

PhpSecInfo provides an equivalent to the phpinfo() function that reports security information about the PHP environment, and offers suggestions for improvement. It is not a replacement for secure development techniques, and does not do any kind of code or app auditing, but can be a useful tool in a multilayered security approach.

Check out some of Ed's own comments about the interview in this new blog entry.