The Free the Geek podcast, hosted by Matthew Setter, has posted their twentieth episode - Talking About Finding Balance As A Freelancer :

In this episode we pick up where we left off in episode 19, with a slight segway. But, instead of starting to look at how to use Twitter, and other social media tools, let’s talk about something more important.

In this episode let’s talk about finding perspective and balance. There’s quite a bit to cover, but I tried to condense it to the essentials. Today, let’s talk about finding a balance between the amount of work you have, the quality of said work, and the amount you get paid for it.

He includes a series of questions you can ask yourself to determine if freelancing is right for you and what you need to expect going in (as far as needs and wants). You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get the latest updates on new shows as they're released.

The Laravel News podcast, as hosted by Eric Barnes has posted their latest episode: Episode #20: With special guest Adam Wathan.

In this week’s Laravel News podcast we have Adam Wathan on to talk about his book Refactoring to Collections and a new package MailThief.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by subscribing through iTunes or Google Play. There's also a special discount code included for Adam's "Refactoring with Collections" book if you're interested.

That Podcast, hosted by PHP community members Beau Simensen and Dave Marshall has posted their latest episode: Episode #20, The one where we don't really prefer this over that.

Beau and Dave get in to PSR-7 and how we might be doing middlewares, framework or no framework, container PSR or not and a whole bunch of other stuff as usual.

Other topics mentioned in this episode include: Gun.io, Yuml.me, the MySQL workbench and Homebrew. There's also several mentions of other community members including Jeremy Lindblom, Brian Fenton, Erica Heidi and Dustin Wheeler. You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed too!

The Laravel podcast has posted their latest episode today, Episode #20 - The War on CRUD with host Shawn McCool.

We talk about configuration and queue updates, architecture and CRUD apps, choosing the right persistence solution, and a lot more.

You can catch this latest episode either though the in-page audio player or by watching the Google Hangouts recording it was pulled from. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed.

The PHP Town Hall podcast has released their latest episode today, Episode 20: A Nice Friendly Chat About Sculpin, Guzzle and PSR-7 with guests Beau Simensen and Michael Dowling.

This show has a history of talking about FIG stuff as it is hard to avoid. The group is working on so much cool stuff and prominent figures of the community are involved. We got two more prominent figures, who also happen to be involved with FIG stuff: Beau Simensen lead developer of Sculpin and Michael Dowling lead developer of the wonderful HTTP library Guzzle, who also works at AWS on their PHP SDK.

They talk about each of the projects mentioned and what's coming up for each. There's also some discussion around the PSR-7 HTTP spec that's been proposed and is in the works. You can listen to this latest show in a few different ways - either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or you can watch the video of the live recording via Google Hangouts.