The Voices of the ElePHPant has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this latest show host Cal Evans interviews Larry Garfield, a well-known developer and member of the Drupal community.

Cal and Larry talk about Larry's work on the PHP-FIG overhaul (PHP-FIG v3), how it changes the structure of the group and how it effects its members. He talks about the "member projects", the "core community" and what's changing in the workflow related to these two groups. He also explains the new workflows the group's work will follow and the move of the group to include a wider focus on the entire PHP community ecosystem. They also talk about Larry's work at Platform.sh and what kind of services they offer.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 of the show directly. If you enjoy the interview, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twiiter when new episodes are released.

Thijs Feryn has posted the latest episode in his series of video interviews with members of the PHP community he's caught up with at conferences. In his latest show he talks with Larry Garfield, one of the more well-known members in the Drupal community about the latest milestone in Drupal, the release of Drupal 8.

Today, November 19th 2015, marks the release date of Drupal 8. To celebrate this release, I decided to publish my interview with Larry Garfield today.

Larry is a key member of the Drupal community and a core contributor to the project. Throughout the conversation, Larry tells us the origin story of Drupal 8 and how the technical challenges lead to the adoption of technology from the broader PHP community such as Composer, Twig and a set of Symfony Components.

I hope you like the interview, it gives a nice behind the scenes look at the history of Drupal 8 and how Drupal reached out to the PHP community to create a more modern code base.

You can watch the video either through the in-page video player or directly on YouTube. You can also check out his previous interviews in this archive section on his site.

The PHP RoundTable podcast has posted their latest episode - Episode #22: All About PSR-7 (the recently accepted PHP-FIG standard for an HTTP interface layer).

PSR-7 is the latest accepted member to the PHP FIG's standards library. We discuss what PSR-7 is, how it utilizes streams, immutability & middleware, and how it will affects you as a developer.

You can catch this latest episode either through the embedded video player or directly on YouTube. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed or follow them on Twitter.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest in their series of community interviews this time with Larry Garfield, an advocate and well-known speaker in the PHP and Drupal communities.

They talk about Larry's involvement with Cal's "secret project" (no longer secret): the Wisdom of the ElePHPant book. Larry shares the concept behind his entry based on a quote from Pablo Picasso and when to break the rules. They also talk about Drupal 8 and the current state of the project.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. If you enjoy the episode, be sure to subscribe to their feed to get the latest.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted a new episode in its series of community interviews today. In this latest episode host Cal Evans talks with Tess Flynn and Larry Garfield, both well-known members of the Drupal community.

The episode was recorded at Twin Cities Drupal Camp and features Larry playing the guest host role interviewing Tesss Flynn, a module maintainer for Drupal. They talk about Drupal sessions presented by both Larry and Tess as well as another from Fredric Mitchell. They also talk about the idea of "Contrib Champions" that can help share major changes (and answer questions) about large changes that might effect them.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3. If you like the episode, be sure to subscribe to their feed and get the latest episodes as they're released.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted the second part of their interview with Larry Garfield (part one is here) talking about Drupal 8 and OOP.

Topics mentioned include the D8FTW blog post series, Refactor Chicago and the Chicago Advanced Drupal User Group.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. You can also subscribe to their mailing list for this and more great shows.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode interviewing a member of the PHP community. This time Cal Evans talks with Larry Garfield about Drupal 8 and PHP 5.4.

This is part one of the interview and they talk about things like: Larry's company, Refactor: Chicago, the Chicago Advanced Drupal Users Group and a blog about traits.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the interview, you should also consider subscribing to their feed.

On the Acquia blog there's a new post looking at the evolution of the PHP language and some of the newer features included in recent releases.

PHP is not a young language. As of 2013, it's 18 years old; that's old enough to vote. Many upstart languages have appeared over the years to try and unseat PHP as the "lingua franca" of web applications but it still commands over 80% of the web market. One reason for PHP's popularity is no doubt the ease with which new developers can get started with it, but just as important is the fact that PHP has been evolving for all those 18 years.

He covers things added over the last several major revisions of the language (with code examples) - things like anonymous functions, traits and generators.

On his site today Anthony Ferrara has posted the latest video in his "Programming with Anthony" series. This time, it covers the basics of design patterns with guest host Larry Garfield.

Today we are joined by open source contributor Larry Garfield. Larry introduces us to design patterns through his own unique style: Cooking With Crell. He introduces the concept of Design Patterns, goes through a few basic patterns and closes out with some pretty solid justification for why we should care.

You can watch this latest episode either on Anthony's site or over on YouTube. There's several other videos in his series, so be sure to check out the playlist for other great videos.