Blue PHP ElePHPant plush toys are so yesterday. Ben Scholzen (you might know him as DASPRiD on IRC/Twitter) is now taking pre-orders for green Zend Framework ElePHPants. Yes, they are green. Yes, they have "ZF" printed on them. No, they are not a repository of Zend Framework knowledge. We tried really hard, but Intel insists that magical toys from the future are not real. Ben needs to reach a minimum production order of 1000 small ZF ElePHPants and is currently hovering at around 200 after the weekend. If you, your user group, or your pet poodle want one of these, visit Ben's pre-order page for more information.

As of the time of this post, the orders for these elePHPants is at about 190 out of the 1000 needed, so if you'd like to pick some up, get over and put in your pre-order now!

Cal's "three questions" for her were:

• What's your title, what it means and what do you do? ("Anthropologist of Developer Culture")
• Can you talk about the toolset Etsy uses for continuous integration?
• Can you discuss private methods and why you like them?

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Cal's "three questions" for Luke were:

• Why did you choose PHP to build the Foxycart platform?
• What did you learn in the process of becoming PCI certified?
• What lessons do you have for people looking to put together a platform and an API?

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In the interview they talk about things like:

• Chris' security experience
• The PHP community's shifting focus on security
• What's the biggest security mistake PHP developers still make?
• Cross-site request forgeries
• Chris' current work with Mapalong

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This episode was recorded in 2011. Elizabeth now works for Orchestra.io. It's still a fun interview though because...well, it's Elizabeth.

You can find her blog here and follow her on Twitter here. If you'd like to listen to this latest episode, you can either listen in-page or download the mp3 directly.

Cal asks Sean his three questions about various projects and topics he's involved with:

• Can you talk to us about what you see about the process of how PHP is developed and is this a positive or a negative?
• Can you give us a quick synopsis of why Gimmie Bar moved from CouchDb to MongoDb and are you still confident that it was the right decision?
• Can you talk a bit about your experience with Node.js?

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Cal's questions mainly revolve around Derick's contributions the PHP core (and one on OpenStreetMap):

• Do you consider the current way PHP is developed functional or broken (and why)?
• What would you do to change the way PHP is developed and why would you want to do it that way?
• Explain to us what OpenStreetMap and why you think this is an important project.

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Cal's questions for Rafael are related to

• The Brazilian PHP community has an umbrella organization that supports the local communities - can you describe how this works?
• Can you explain the differences in the communities between the two countries [USA and Brazil]?
• What one thing from the Brazilian PHP community would you like to see other communities use?

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Cal asks David a few questions about his involvement in this group:

• Why did you get involved with the user group and why get involved in the leadership of it?
• Why did you decide to allow recruiters to post to your mailing list and has it had any kind of negative impact on the group or list?
• What was the coolest or best thing that you've done for a meeting?

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Cal's "three questions" for Bill talk about both general development and SQL topics:

• Can you describe for us what second system syndrome is and why you think Zend Framework 2 falls into it?
• What's the biggest mistake you see project developers making when it comes to SQL?
• Can you briefly explain what is a SQL anti-pattern and give a few examples?

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