Michael Kimsal has just released the latest episode of his WebDevRadio podcast series, Episode 108: "New Ruby, Regex and my Framework Security Rant(tm)". His framwork security comments are related to PHP frameworks and why almost none of them seem to come with security features already included.

Ruby 2 was just released, and the new 'refinements' feature presents some interesting challenges for JRuby and just about anyone wanting to read Ruby code. Brief chat about the regex security affecting Rails back in January, but more broadly speaking, what does this say about regex in general? Should we embrace it, or find better alternatives? Finally, I've got a new blog post up about web framework security - why do (almost) no web frameworks ship with security baked-in?

The podcast references some of the thoughts from his recent post about framework security. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3.

The DPC Radio site has posted their latest recoding from last year's Dutch PHP Conference (2012) with Thijs Feryn's talk Scalability Issues: Cure First, Prevent Later.

The "it works on my machine" mentality has resulted in numerous face palm moments. This is even more painful when a your app is under heavy load due to a marketing campaign. With some minimal code changes and some smart utilities, you can maximize your scalability and performance. Keywords: Varnish, PHP-FPM, Nginx, APC, CDN, Gearman, Memcached and a proper server setup. I'll show you how you can make a slow app with a crappy code base go mighty fast on one and even multiple servers. The focus of this talk is to cure first and eventually learn and prevent.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the full mp3. You can also subscribe to their feed to get the latest podcasts episodes as they're released.

The latest episode of WebDevRadio has been posted - Episode #105, "Font tools, design thoughts, parallel deployment, and my Florida road trip".

Hello all from sunny Florida :) Recently discovered jquery validation plugin only 6 years too late, and have found some tools that work in conjunction with it, including Pajama, a PHP library. Also have some links to font combination articles and tools, and have recently been using "parallel deployment" in Tomcat 7.

The Pajama PHP library does "hybrid validation" and follows the rules of the jQuery validation plugin but for the server side. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3. You can also subscribe to their feed to get the latest shows.

The latest episode of the PHP Town Hall podcast has been release - Episode #2, "a Node Hipster, Beardy Python Fan, PHP Contributor and a Bristolian Talk About PHP 5.5"

We're back for an "IRL" episode, with Zack Kitzmiller, John Crepezzi and Anthony Ferrera, discussing PHP 5.5 and the new features it will bring.

You can listen to this latest episode through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed to get the latest as they're released.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released the second part of their "It's the Booze Talking" episode about the PHP Community today.

Involved in the show (besides Cal Evans, the host) are Derick Rethans, Luke Stokes, Ben Ramsey and Jacques Woodcock

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. You can also subscribe to their feed to get the latest episodes.

The /Dev/Hell podcast has released their latest episode (hosted by PHP community members Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler) - Episode 11: "From Gas Station Attendant to Java Developer".

This time out we are blessed by the presence of Fictive Kin brosef of Ed. We explore Jo ël's rags-to-riches story: a young academic schlepping coffee and 44oz soft drinks at a gas station, where he's discovered by a grizzled dev team manager in need of Java skills. From there it's been a whirlwind of web sites, programming languages, and more ops than you can shake a stick at. Actually I was sleepy and wasn't really listening for the first half-hour. I bet it's good though.

You can listen to this latest episode by grabbing the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed (either RSS or iTunes) and get this and other great episodes.

On the PHPClasses.org site they've posted the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast. This time the focus is on a recent article that was posted to the site about finding good developers by looking in the right place.

The recently published article on attracting talented Web developers by offering remote job positions raised an interesting debate on the challenges, advantages and disadvantages of this way of working. This debate was the main topic of discussion of the episode 18 of the Lately in PHP podcast with Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert, who were joined by César Rodas. César is a top PHPClasses contributor that has been working remotely for several years for companies around the world.

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player, by direct download or by subscribing to their feed.

On the PHPClasses.org blog today they've released the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast hosted by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert. In this new episode they talk about some of the features to be included in PHP 5.4.

PHP 5.4 Alpha versions just started to be released. On episode 14 of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss the purpose and interest of the new PHP 5.4 features already implemented in these alpha releases. They also discuss the repercussion in the PHP community of the plan to deprecate the original PHP MySQL extension.

You can either listen via the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

PHPClasses.org has posted their latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series, Is PHP 5.4 really coming soon?

On the episode 12 of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss the latest developments and what is still stalling the progress of the developments needed to make PHP 5.4 happen.

They also have a bit of discussion about which browser is better for development - Chrome or Firefox (and the places Chrome might be lacking). You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 to listen at your convenience.

New from the PHPClasses.org site is their latest episode of the "Lately In PHP" podcast - Is Cloud the Right Solution to Host PHP Sites?"

Given the latest problems that occurred in sites that are based on cloud hosting services, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss if the current breed of cloud services are the right solution to host PHP sites. They also comment on the JavaScript Professionals Directory and the JavaScript jobs board which were recently launched to address the increasing demand of developers from companies that have JavaScript job openings.

You can listen via the in-page player, by downloading the episode or by subscribing to their feed.