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?

You can listen to this episode either using the in-page player, by downloading the mp3

As I write this on Christmas Eve, Chris is putting the finishing touches on PHP Advent 2010. [...] Due only to the abilities and professionalism of our most excellent authors, PHP Advent 2010 was - at least in my opinion-the best year, yet. They wrote wonderful, substantial, punchy articles that informed our readers, and generated significantly more traffic than we've seen in previous years: over 70,000 views, from more than 25,000 unique visitors, so far

He also recounts a few stories from the Advents in years past - the difficulties he and Chris went through to get things organized and ready for publication and how, in 2009 some things almost didn't happen. This year's advent has come back stronger than ever with great articles on:

• Aspect Oriented Design
• Working with Text and Media Files
• Streams
• and Managing LAMP applications

In this episode a few friends sit around a table, share some great beer, and share user-submitted stories of coding in the first person.

Topics mentioned in this episode include:

• Chris Shiflett's article on Google Web Accelerator
• Russian roulette for bash
• Firefox extensions to automate SQL injection testing

You can either listen via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 for listening at your convenience.

PHP Advent is our little way of showcasing some of the talented people who work with PHP in some form or fashion, and persuading them to share something they've learned during a busy month when they might otherwise keep quiet. We'll be publishing an article each day in December until Christmas.

If you're new to the PHP Advent (or advent-type article calendar things), check out last year's articles from lots of great members of the PHP community covering everything from development processes, technology tips and parenting.

Other topics mentioned include Goodsie, Moontoast, Gimmie Bar and Map Along. You can either listen to this latest episode using the in-page player or you can grab the mp3 directly.

Check out the Pique Web site for more great episodes (this episode of number six, so there's a few more to check out if you enjoy it).

Pique Web is about interesting things on the web. Perhaps even things that Pique our Interest. You see what's happening here. Your regular hosts are Sean Coates and Paul Reinheimer, guests join them with some regularity. This is Part 2 of our interview with Ed Finkler, discussing Web Platforms and Twitter.

You can either use the in-page player to listen to this latest episode or you can download the mp3 directly. For more episodes from the podcast, check out the Pique Web site.

From Chris Shiflett's blog:

Is it December again already? I like good traditions, so with the help of Sean and many others, PHP Advent is back again, this time with its own domain. I would call it a web site, but that might be stretching the truth at the moment. Jon is going to help us out with a simple design in the very near future. The focus, of course, is the quality content from our gracious authors.

The December 1st post for this year is one by yours truely - You Need the PHP Community. For more great content as the month goes on, you can keep up either through their feed, on Twitter or just by heading over to the site each day.

This is a recording from the P3 Live! Video/podcast we recorded on Tuesday July 29, 2008. Over 50 people joined Paul, Beth and Sean to watch the video stream and listen live. We even managed to cover some news, and talk to some people.

Special thanks to Evan Prodromou from http://identi.ca and Terry Chay for taking our phone calls, and especially to everyone who joined us for the party.

You can either subscribe to their feed and get it automatically or you can grab the mp3 directly.

Please join us on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 for a special live edition of php|architect's P3 Podcast. It will be special not only because we will be be broadcasting video via Yahoo!Live, but it will also be Sean's last P3 podcast.

The show will be starting around 9PM Eastern (America/Montreal) and, for those that can't make it, the audio only will be recorded and put back in to the podcast's feed.

Paul & Sean are joined by another of php|architect's trainers: Beth Tucker. We also called some of our friends in the PHP world for some PHP Horror Stories.

The show has mentions of php|works/PyPworks, PHP 5.3, lambdas, identi.ca and the release of Komodo 4.4.

You can either grab the file directly from the site or you can drop their feed's URL into your aggregator of choice and get the latest shows hand-delivered.