The PHPUgly podcast, with hosts Eric Van Johnson, Tom Rideout and John Congdon, has posted their latest episode - Episode #50: Resistance is Futile.

Topics mentioned in this latest show include:

• the inclusion of libsodium into PHP 7.2
• Amazon Chime
• WebGoat, a deliberately insecure Web Application
• Rasmus' post with a bit of PHP history

You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by listening directly on SoundCloud. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter for updates on when new shows are released.

The PHPUgly podcast, hosted by Eric Van Johnson, Tom Rideout and John Congdon, has posted their latest episode: Episode #47 - Cruising

They touch on a few different topics in this episode including:

• the release of Laravel 5.4
• PHPStorm adding support for Blade components and slots
• Lone Star PHP's early bird tickets going on sale (and its last year)

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or directly on Sound Cloud. You can also watch the video of the live recording. If you enjoy the show be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get the latest updates when new shows are released.

The PHPUgly podcast, hosted by Eric Van Johnson, Tom Rideout and John Congdon, has posted their latest episode: Episode #34 - Lorem Ipsum Podcast.

Topics mentioned in their episode include:

• the update to the PHPUgly site to run Laravel and the Quarz CMS software
• when Dyn went down and took the web with it
• the release of PHP 7.1 RC5

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or - new this episode - checking out the video of the live Google Hangouts. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get the latest updates when new shows are released.

The PHPUgly podcast has posted their latest episode as recorded on August 18th, 2016 - Episode #24. Join hosts Eric Van Johnson and Tom Rideout as they talk about:

• The TV show "Mr Robot"
• the SDPHP and SDLUG Meetups
• the "FIG Follies" articles
• the idea of "Being asked to work for free"

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

That Podcast, with hosts and PHP community members Beau Simensen and Dave Marshall, has posted their latest episode: Episode #24: "The last one... with a Friends themed title" (Because Dave gets frustrated trying to think them up).

Beau and Dave talk about work, automating deployments and ops, running an (R)ELK stack on AWS, Reactiflux getting kicked off Slack, Dave's work being awarded some government funding, Phil Sturgeon, Symfony autowiring and the 3.0 release, Zend Expressive, Adobe Creative Suite on case-sensitive filesystems and You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar.

Other topics mentioned include the Specification design pattern, AWS Elastic Search, Zend Expressive and the decomposer library. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. Also, if you enjoy the show and want to hear more be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get updates on when future episodes are released.

The PHP Roundtable podcast has posted their latest episode - Episode #24: Becoming A PHP Entrepreneur. This time host Sammy K Powers is joined by PHP community members Michelangelo van Dam (of in2it) and Chris Hartjes (of Grumpy Learning).

So you have a 9-5 job but want to start your own business... where do you start? We discuss what realistic first-steps you'll need to take in order to transform yourself from a PHP employee to PHP entrepreneur.

The podcast was recorded live but you can watch it either via the in-page video player or directly on YouTube. If you enjoy the episode, be sure to either subscribe to their feed or follow them on Twitter to get information about the latest shows as they're announced.

The Loosely Coupled podcast, with hosts and PHP community members Jeff Carouth and Matt Frost, has posted their latest episode today - episode #24: Minimum Viable Product.

In this episode Jeff and Matt talk about the concept of a minimum viable product and what it means to us as developers. The concept of an MVP is simple but it often gets used as an excuse to put out poorly-implemented products. Listen as Jeff and Matt discuss their opinions about the problems with MVP in our industry and how we as developers can fight against them.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed to get this and other episodes as they're released.

The Laravel Podcast has released their latest episode (#24) - Dog at the Keyboard.

In this episode, the crew discusses PHP 7, Browserify, and their favorite Mac applications.

A brief description but the show runs about 30 minutes and is hosted by Matt Stauffer and guests Taylor Otwell and Jeffrey Way. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and get the latest shows as they're released.

The PHP Town Hall podcast has released their latest episode with hosts Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon - Episode 24: But Is It Web Scale? They're also joined this time by Steve Corona, author of Scaling PHP.

Most of this conversation centers around Phil and Ben’s horrible facial hair with a few questions thrown Steve’s way to educate us on getting the most out of your LAMP stack. The main takeaways are to stop using Apache and to start using Postgres.

You can listen to this episode in a few different ways. You can either use the in-page audio player, download the mp3 or you can watch the video of the live recording (Google Hangout).

The Three Devs & A Maybe podcast (with hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann) has posted their latest episode (#24) talking about character sets and encodings.

Having only just recently been bit by the character encoding issue again, we thought it would be a good time to bring it up on the podcast. Starting from the beginning with ASCII, we move on to discuss how 8-bit compatible machines brought way to the ISO-8859-* standards. This leads us on to Unicode, with the goal to develop a single character-set encoding standard that could support all of the world's scripts. Finally, we discuss the de-factor character encoding implementation used on the web today 'UTF-8', and reasons why this is the case.

Lots of different topics are mentioned including reversing a Unicode String in PHP using UTF-16BE/LE, portable UTF-8 and a YouTube video covering Pragmatic Unicode. You can listen to this new episode though the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or subscribing to their feed.