Cal's three questions talk mostly about his work on the Lithium framework

• What started you on the road to building another framework?
• What makes Lithium special?
• What is your favorite piece of the framework?

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What do you get when you mix namespaces, late static binding and closures? PHP 5.3 and NYPHP's July meeting, of course. Lithium co-founder Nate Abele and NYPHP Managing Member Hans Zaunere will start by giving an overview of these key concepts, followed by a review of how they're being utilized in the real-world, and finishing with an open Q&A discussion of these new hotter-than-July language features.

The meeting will start at 6:30pm tomorrow (July 27th) at the IBM offices on Madison Ave. You'll need to RSVP if you're going to attend. The meeting will be followed by a post-meeting event at TGI Fridays at Lexington and 5th. For full details on the meeting, check out http://www.nyphp.org/PHP-Presentations/175_PHP-53-Feature-Review-Discussion">this page on the NYPHP site.

This week's special guest is Nate Abele, founder of the new PHP framework Lithium. Join us as we talk to Nate about the goals of Lithum and the trials of setting up an open source project.

You can find out more about the Lithium framework on the Rad-Dev.org website too. As far as this episode, you can listen to it in one of three ways - via the in-page player, by direct download or, the easiest way, subscribe to their feed and get other great episodes and news from php|architect.

The questions this time cover:

• relationships with the leads on other top PHP frameworks
• how much of his work is done with CakePHP
• what kind of applications he's made with the framework
• what his favorite environment is for coding (music, beverage of choice, etc)

...and a few more. You can also check out the first part of the series here.

Yeah, yeah, I know. This has been done before. What can I say - I had questions, Nate had answers. This is part one and covers general Cake and Cake3 questions. Look for part two tomorrow, which has a bunch of random questions.

The questions cover topics like the confusion in CakePHP branches, active contributors, changes in return values and certain features (like unit testing integration and the filtering system).

Since there is still little public information about CakePHP 2.0 and especially the all-new 3.0, I decided to do a little interview with Nate Abele, lead developer of CakePHP.

They talk about what's coming up in CakePHP 3.0, the upgrades being done to CakePHP 2.0, the use of non-relational data storage and a possible time for release for the CakePHP 3.0 branch.

On the day CakePHP 1.2 goes stable, Rafael Bandeira and Nate Abele chat about what you can expect when you go download your holiday package.

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