Due to some recent events at a PHP conference involving a company and their promotional tactics, a few members of the PHP community felt the need to share some of their thoughts about sexism in technology communities (some specifically in the PHP community). Here's the list of related posts and their authors:

• Cal Evans
• Matthew Turland
• Stefan Koopmanschap
• Keith Casey
• Brandon Savage
• Amy Stephan
• Paul Jones
• Aral Balkan
• Anthony Ferrara

Several other comments were made on twitter, including responses from the webandphp Twitter account about the comments/posts being made.

UPDATE: The Web and PHP Magazine folks have posted an official response to the comments made about the situation.

The latest issue of the Web and PHP Magazine has just been released - Issue 5. In this issue you'll find:

• #Trending: What's hot and what's not in the PHP and web dev community at the moment
• An interview with Zeev Suraski
• A Look Ahead to ZendCon 2012
• "5 Reasons To Maximize Your Use Of PHP's Built-In Feature"
• Stefan Priebsch On Soccer.

As always, you can download the issue for free to get the PDF version or you can download the iPad application and get the latest issues there.

The latest issue of the "Web and PHP Magazine" has been published - Issue #3 with articles including:

• An interview with Razi Sharir, CEO of Xeround, on DBaaS
• A preview of IPC Spring 2012
• Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc) on hotels
• 'An Overview Of PHP QA Tools' by Luis Oblonczyk (Softnex)
• 'An Introduction To Traits' by Michael Stowe (CaringBridge)

You can download this issue free (registration required) as a PDF. Additionally, if you'd like to see the first two issues, you can check out their archives to download those as well.

The latest issue (second) of the "Web and PHP Magazine" has been released. Articles in this issue include:

• An interview with Colin Hayhurst, co-founder of StackBlaze, on running a PHP startup
• A preview of PHP Summit 2012 UK
• Stefan Priebsch (thePHP.cc) on how to see the bigger picture (application architecture)
• 'PaaS: The Cloud On-Ramp For PHP Developers' (by Lucas Carlson of AppFog)
• 'Cryptography In PHP' (by Enrico Zimuel of Zend)

Once again, you can download this issue for free to enjoy!

As of March 30th, the PHP community has a new resource to learn and grow in their favorite language - the Web & PHP Magazine (published by S&S Media).

This is an exciting time for PHP and an exciting time to be launching a new publication. [...] We think we've got a great selection of articles in this first issue of Web & PHP Magazine, and we hope there's something of interest for PHP devs of every skill level. Feel free to get in touch if there's anything that you'd like to see in next month's issue, or submit a piece yourself. As ever, we'll be out and about in the PHP community over the next few months, so don't hesitate to say hello.

In their inaugural issue, there's articles about the PHP UK Conference, Security and emerging databases. There's also an interview with Robert Douglass (Senior Drupal Advisor at Acquia).

They're also offering the issue for download directly from their site (as a PDF) with later issues coming to multiple platforms (like mobile devices).