PHPClasses.org has posted the latest episode of their "Lately In PHP" podcast series, a look at the cloud hosting PHPFog now offers including an interview with Lucas Carlson, CEO of PHPFog.

On the Lately in PHP podcast episode 13, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert interview Lucas Carlson, founder and CEO of PHPFog, to tell us about the advantages of using a Cloud Hosting service that is optimized to address needs that are specific to PHP Web sites and applications. They also comment on the PHP 5.3.6 forked version released by Robert Eisele and the PHP features being voted for inclusion in version 5.4.

You can listen to this latest episode in a few different ways - either via the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

Matthew Turland has posted part nine of his in-depth series on the Blue Parabola blog looking at the features the Magento e-commerce platform has to offer. This time the focus is on tools it offers to help with shipping information.

Topics spotlighted include:

• Integrated for Real-Time Shipping Rates
• On-site Order Tracking from Customer Accounts
• Ability to Specify Allowed Destination Countries Per Method
• Free Shipping
• Table Rates for Product Sub-totals and Destination
• Table Rates for Number of Items and Destination

More parts of this series can be found linked from the magento category on the Blue Parabola blog.

Matthew Turland has posted the eighth part of his detailed series looking at the feature set that the Magento e-commerce software has to offer to the Blue Parabola blog. This new post looks at the "payment offering" features.

Features mentioned in this post include:

• Customer Store Credits Feature
• Integrated with Amazon Payments
• Gift Certificates/Cards (Physical and Virtual)
• Integrated with Google Checkout
• Accept Purchase Orders
• Payment Extensions Available through Magento Connect

Check out the full post for more and descriptions of each.