The PHPUgly podcast, hosted by Eric Van Johnson, John Congdon and Thomas Rideout, has posted their latest episode - Episode #98: [Ethical Dilemmas].

In this episode they mention topics such as:

• signing commits with GPG
• a Reddit post about PHP garbage collection in 7.3
• Geek Squad and the FBI
• Twitter's verification process

You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get updates on when new shows are released.

In this post to the Developer Tutorials blog, Akash Mehta talks about the "version dilemma" that developers face when looking for good hosting - with all of the push towards PHP5 these days, why is it that so many hosting environments are still running on PHP4?

If you purchase a cheap hosting account with many of the major web hosts around today, chances are they will be running PHP 4. The problem for web hosts is this: the PHP community may have moved on from version 4, but a lot of the code out there hasn't.

He recommends one solution that several hosting providers are starting to gravitate towards - offering both to their customers and allowing them to switch between them (via something like cPanel).