Pascal Martin has posted his latest edition of the happenings on the PHP internals mailing list for the month of September. In this latest edition he covers some of the major topics discussed this past month including:

• the "Implicit isset() in Shorthand Ternary Operator" RFC (or, as it came to be known, the "Null Coalesce Operator" RFC)
• An RFC for a "loop + or control structure"
• an opinion to make PHP 7 transtyping operations more strict
• the RFC to "Remove alternative PHP tags"
• another RFC proposed to "Fix list() behavior inconsistency"

There's links to lots of other topics and various messages on the list including lots of other RFCs and plenty of discussion around them. Check out the full post for more great information and links around last month's php.internals happenings.

The php[architect] group has officially released their latest issue of the magazine: September 2014, Purchasing Power.

Our September issue is now available. Whether selling products, billing for services, or collecting donations, at some point you’ve probably needed to find a way to get money from person A to person B. This issue covers the latest developments and techniques for Magento, the popular PHP e-commerce platform.

Articles in this issue include:

• High-Performance Magento in the Cloud (Fabrizio Branca)
• Easy WordPress Dev Environments with Vagrant and Ansible (Jason A. Lefkowitz)
• The Confident Coder: Make the Reasons Overwhelming (Aaron Saray)
• Laravel Tips: Deploying Applications Part 1: Homestead (Dirk Merkel)

If you'd like a sample of this issue, you can read a free sample from the WordPress Development Environments article. If you'd like to pick up a copy of your own, you can get it directly from the php[architect] site.