This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Cesar Rodas on the episode 34 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also discussed about the latest PHP releases, updating PHP with minimized downtime, as well how brilliant are some developers for creating pure PHP components that overcome PHP limitations without upgrading to a newer PHP version.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or subscribing to their feed. If you'd like to see the video recording of the session you can check that out over on YouTube.

Since the beginning of February, the ranking of PHP Programming Award winners of 2007 is available As you may see Cesar Rodas is top ranked of all authors that were nominated to the award during 2007.

His prize was a stuffed PHP friend of his very own - an elePHPant (as created by Vincent Pointier and Damien Seguy). There's also an interview with Cesar included.