There's an interesting new episode of The Changelog podcast that's been posted today featuring James Pearce, head of Open Source at Facebook. They talk about Facebook's stance on open source and contributing along with the support they give.

This week we’ve got a big show with James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook. We talked about his path to software development, why he’s the person to lead open source at Facebook, their view on open source, their culture of open source, how they choose what to open source, and more importantly — how they focus on, support, and nurture the community.

You can listen to this episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to get notified when new shows are released.

In episode #197 of The Changelog podcast they're joined by Matt Mullenweg (CEO of Automattic) to talk about the future of WordPress and how the newer "Calypso" interface fits in to the overall picture.

This week we’re joined by Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic. We discussed the past, present, and future of WordPress. We talked about the role of JavaScript for WordPress, their new REST API, Calypso, and more.

They talk about WordPress in general, Matt's "State of the Word 2015" presentation, beautiful code, and Steve Krug's Advanced Common Sense website as well. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and get more great shows in the future.

The ChangeLog podcast has posted their latest episode, #142, with guest Taylor Otwell, creator of the popular Laravel framework.

This week we’re joined by Taylor Otwell, he’s the creator and maker of the Laravel PHP framework. He joins us for a deep dive into Laravel, why he doesn’t release without good documentation, building apps to test your own framework, writing an API for Lavarel Forge, and more.

There's a good range of topics discussed, both Laravel and non-Laravel with links included in the post. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3.

On The Changelog podcast today hosts Adam and Jerod talk with Sara Golemon (of Facebook) about the PHP specification that was released a bit back by a group, largely at Facebook, to help define how the PHP language functions.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode include:

• HipHop VM (HHVM)
• the php.internals mailing list thread about the specification's release
• Sara's extensions book
• The Hack language
• the AST and switch default multiple RFCs

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