On the PHPClasses.org site today Manuel Lemos has released the latest episode in their "Lately in PHP" podcast series: Episode #48 - To TDD or Not TDD?.

Lately the debate about whether you should use TDD or not in all software projects all the time has been very intense. [...] They also talked about the upcoming end of life release of PHP 5.3, getting information of parameter type hinting with reflection, using object methods on native data types, security problems of OAuth implementations, and the built-in support of Composer to access password protected repositories.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or you can watch the live recording over on the PHPClasses YouTube playlist. A transcription of the recording is also provided as well as links to some of the topics mentioned.

The PHPClasses.org site has released the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series today - Episode #47: PHP is the Best Competitor of PHP.

PHP developments gained new life thanks mostly to Facebook Hack language and Zend reaction with PHPNG. Since Facebook Hack is mostly a fork of PHP, it seems PHP is the main competitor of PHP. These developments were one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal in the episode 47 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also discussed new proposals for the next PHP versions like negative string offsets, offsets to Reset() and End(), a mail handling interface similar to session handlers, error handling in PHP.next, and return type hinting declarations.

You can listen to this latest episode in one of a few ways: either using the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or by watching the live recording of the episode on YouTube.

In the latest episode (#46) of the "Lately in PHP" podcast series Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins wonder if Hack will ever replace PHP.

The release of the Facebook Hack language has shaken the PHP community since it implements several frequently requested features that were never implemented, many users are considering to drop PHP in favor of Hack. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 46 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also talked about the OpenSSL Heartbleed security bug may affect PHP sites or not, ideas for the PHP 6 engine, the need for an official PHP specification, and an advanced email validation that can provide suggestions for address typos like Google did you mean feature.

You can catch this latest episode either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or by watching the video of the live Google Hangout recording.

The latest episode of the "Lately in PHP" podcast series has been released by PHPClasses.org today - Episode 45, "The Security of Future PHP Versions".

As the plans for the upcoming PHP 5.6 and PHP 6 versions are being finalized, some of the proposals are about improving the security of these future PHP versions. That has been one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and César Rodas on the episode 45 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also have talked about several other types of proposals and ideas for PHP 6, as well a tutorial on How to Use a Webcam to take Pictures in PHP Application.

You can listen to this latest episode in a few ways - either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or you can watch the live recording over on YouTube.

The PHPClasses.org site has posted their latest "Lately in PHP" episode - #44, "The Debate About All PHP Frameworks that Suck".

The video and the article about when Rasmus Lerdorf stated that in his opinion all PHP frameworks suck had great reprecussion. In this podcast the debate about reasons for this opinion continued with Manuel Lemos, Cesar Rodas and Yasir Siddiqui, the winner of PHP Innovation Award edition of 2013.

They also talked about the the Uniter PHP interpreter written in JavaScript, plans to remove the MySQL and IMAP extension in PHP 5.6, whether the next major PHP version should be PHP 6 or PHP 7.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the audio or watching the video of the live recording.

On the PHPClasses.org site today they've published the latest episode in their "Lately in PHP" podcast series, Episode #43 - "Is Facebook HHVM going to Replace Zend Engine in PHP 6".

The Facebook HipHop Virtual Machine, HHVM, has been evolving a lot, so PHP developers are considering it as a possible replacement for Zend Engine in PHP 6. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and César Rodas in the episode 43 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also discussed other topics like FastCGI support in HHVM, having PHP function naming consistency plans for PHP 6, TLS peer verification for secure connections, and using Composer to install JavaScript, CSS and images for PHP projects.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or watching the live video recording from the Google Hangout.

The PHPClasses.org site has released the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series with episode #42, "New PHP 5.6 Developments".

s the release of PHP 5.6 gets closer to happen in first semester of 2014, more new features are already being implemented including a new PHP debugger. The latest PHP 5.6 developments is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and César Rodas in the episode 42 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

They go through some of the things that have been discussed to be included in PHP 5.6 including

• the Expectations proposal
• ** as Power Operator
• Assigning Variables Automatically in the Class Constructor
• PHPDbg, a New PHP Debugger

You can listen to this latest episode a few different ways - either through the in-page player, by grabbing the mp3 or you can watch the video of the live recording.

The latest episode of the "Lately in PHP" podcast from PHPClasses.org has been released - Episode #41, "What Happened in the Security Attack to PHP.net?" (Disclaimer: I was a part of this episode.)

As you may be aware, the PHP.net site was the target of security attack that made it spread malware for a while. The circumstances of this attack were the main topic of discussion between Manuel Lemos, Jim Malico of OWASP and Chris Cornutt of PHPDeveloper.org. They also commented on the latest efforts to make PHP more secure, as well what PHP developers can do to develop more secure Web sites and applications, and minimizing the damages of eventual security attacks.

You can check out this new episode in a few different ways - either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 directly or by watching the live recording from the Google Hangout. You can also subscribe to the feed to get this and other new episodes as they're released.

On PHPClasses.org today they've posted the latest episode of their podcast, "Lately in PHP", episode #40 - "More New Features for PHP 5.6".

The proposals of new features for PHP 5.6 continues to come. Several new interesting features are being discussed like named parameters, anonymous classes, nested classes, among other proposals. This was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in episode 40 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

You can listen to this latest episode in a few different ways - either by using the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by watching the video of the recorded Google Hangout.

PHPClasses.org has released their latest episode in their "Lately in PHP" podcast series, Episode #39 - "PHP 5.6 Roadmap and New Features".

ow that PHP 5.5 stable versions were released, it is time to plan the roadmap of features for PHP 5.6. This was the main topic discussed by Manuel Lemos and Cesar Rodas in episode 39 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also commented about a new PHP core developer that was hired by SmugMug to work full time on PHP development as a sort of sponsorship of the PHP project.

You can listen to this latest episode either though the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by watching the video of the live recording.