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.

The Laravel.io podcast has made an announcement that today (Wednesday, Oct 5th) they will be doing a live stream of episode #19 at 2pm EST.

Tomorrow at 2:00 PM EST the latest Laravel.io Podcast will be aired live on Google Hangouts. Currently no topics are listed but you will be able to ask questions live on the air.

If you'd like to join in, head over to this page around 2pm and join in on the conversation. If you're interested in other back episodes of the show and want to listen, check out the podcast page and subscribe to their feed.

The Laravel.IO podcast recently posted a new episode - Episode #10, with guests Taylor Otwell, Jesse O'Brien and Chris Fado.

In this episode they talk about DDD, Facades and Laracon 2014 in NYC. The Laravel.io Podcast is a community supported podcast which is focused on the Laravel PHP framework and its surrounding ecosystem.

You can listen to this latest episode either though the in-page player or by downloading the mp3. You can also subscribe to their feed of you want more Laravel listening.