On the PHPClasses.org site Manuel Lemos has posted the latest episode of the "Lately in PHP" podcast series. This episode, number 36, talks about the upcoming release of PHP 5.5 and looks forward to 5.6.

The PHP 5.5.0 final release is about to happen. After about 16 months of development PHP 5.5 is bringing even more maturity to the PHP language, which by Google numbers is present in 75% of the Web sites. [...] hey also discussed some new features proposed for PHP 5.6 like incremental decoding of large JSON data streams and overloading arithmetic operators for arbitrary precision math. They also debated the meaning of Google finally adding support to PHP in their cloud hosting platform Google AppEngine. Also in this episode it was discussed an article about good practices to quickly detect and fix PHP code bugs that only show up in production environments.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading it directly or you can watch the video of the live recording on YouTube.

On PHPClasses.org today they've posted the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series - Episode #35, "Better Documentation for PHP internals".

With the inclusion of Zend Optimizer+ extension in PHP 5.5, the need for better documentation of PHP internals became more evident, so PHP contributors can write extensions that take the most of the core PHP features. That is one of the topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 35 of the Lately In PHP podcast. They also talked about having more optimized PHP opcodes, some interesting PHP feature proposals that got rejected, as well the article about the top version control systems used by PHP developers.

You can listen to this episode in a few different ways - either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by watching the video of the recorded Google Hangout session.

PHPClasses.org has posted the latest episode (#34) of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series. In this episode they talk about the current PHP voting process for features and a possibly better one that was proposed.

This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Cesar Rodas on the episode 34 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also discussed about the latest PHP releases, updating PHP with minimized downtime, as well how brilliant are some developers for creating pure PHP components that overcome PHP limitations without upgrading to a newer PHP version.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or subscribing to their feed. If you'd like to see the video recording of the session you can check that out over on YouTube.

PHPClasses.org has posted the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series - Episode #33, "PHP Innovation Award Winner of 2012".

he PHP Programming Innovation Award Winner of 2012 was announced. An interview with the winner, Karl Holz from Canada, was one of the main topics of the episode 33 of the Lately in PHP podcast conducted by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert. They also discussed the usual batch of PHP topics of interest like Zend Optimizer+ source code that was released, the PHP 5.5 feature freeze and roadmap, as well an article that compares PHP to an Hobbit, as well other languages to Lord Of The Rings story characters.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or you can watch the video of the recording. You can also subscribe to their feed to get this and other episodes as they're released.

On PHPClasses.org today they've posted the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast, Episode #32, "Zend Optimizer+ Cache in PHP 5.5 and MySQL 5.6 Performance Improvements".

MySQL 5.6 speed improvements and how it affects PHP applications was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert on the episode 32 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also commented on the eventual adoption of the Zend Optimizer+ as the PHP code caching extension that may be shipping with PHP 5.5 as alternative to APC, the implications of this to the PHP community.

They also talk some about the switch of OpenSuSE/Fedora Linux to MariaDB MySQL, TDD in the Zurmo PHP Open Source CRM and using HTML5 animations. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 directly or watch the video of the recording on YouTbue.

PHPClasses.org has released their latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series. This episode (#31) talks some about some of the changes happening in versions in PHP in the upcoming months.

As PHP 5.5 is getting ready to be released in the next months, the end of line for PHP 5.3 is being planned, while the original MySQL extension is being deprecated in PHP 5.5 to be killed in a later version.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or you can watch the video of the recorded Google Hangout of the taping.

On the PHPClasses.org site they've posted the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series - Episode #30, "Will PHP6 Feature a JIT compiler?"

Now that Facebook made some progress with their PHP HipHop VM JIT compiler engine, some PHP core developers are considering having also a JIT compiler implementation of the official implementation based on LLVM, eventually in PHP 6. [...] They also commented on the first alpha release of PHP 5.5.0, proposals for having pure interfaces in the PHP core, the Facebook PHP JIT compiler enhancements, and the new system of levels and missions of the PHPClasses and JSClasses sites.

You can listen to this latest episode either through their in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed. You can also watch the video of the recording as well.

PHPClasses.org has posted the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series - episode #29, Should PHP be Copying the Java features and practices?.

Particularly since version 5.0, PHP has been copying many of Java features and practices of Java programmers. This means that if Java programmers practices tend to be bureacratic and less productive, PHP programmers that use those features or adopt those Java practices may also become less productive. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal on the episode 29 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

There's also a bit of discussion about adding generics to PHP and using OAuth in PHP. You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by watching the video of the recording. You can also subscribe to their feed to get the latest in the podcast series.

On the PHPClasses.org blog they've posted the latest "Lately In PHP" Podcast - Episode #28, "PHP 5.5 Release Date and Plans":

PHP 5.5 release is already being planned. The release manager was picked, the new features are decided and the release date is estimated. This one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in episode 28 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also discussed the interpretation from VentureBeat that Zend is working on mobile version of PHP, using abstract symbol tables to optimize PHP further, and creating classes that provide APIs that are simpler for the users.

You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

PHPClasses.org has posted the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series - Episode #27, "Running PHP code with JavaScript and Python VM".

PHP applications popularity is so high that developers which prefer using other languages are trying to compile PHP code in languages like JavaScript and Python using new virtual machine projects. [...] They also cover the latest PHP releases and the new features planned for PHP 5.5, as well the new PHP elephant plush toys that were produced by the PHPClasses site to give away to the best contributors of the site.

You can listen to this latest episode in a few different ways - either by downloading the mp3, subscribing to their feed or watching the video on their Youtube channel.