If you didn't get a chance to be a part of the live P3 podcast that marked the end of Sean Coates' time with the php|architect crew, you can check out the audio of it in the latest show on the podcast feed.

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.

A new announcement has been posted to the P3 podcast website - a special live broadcast of the show will be happening in July 29th:

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.

If you want to join in, show up at Paul's Yahoo!Live feed at around 9PM Eastern (America/Montreal) to be a part of the show.

Sean will be no longer hosting the podcast and will be leaving php|architect and will be joining the ranks of OmniTI as a part of their PHP + Security group.

Rather than having a lots of different blog posts scattered all over covering this year's php|tek conference in Chicago, I figured that pulling them all together here would work best. So, without further ado - the coverage from php|tek 2008:

• the php|tek live site
• slides (as they get them
• Photos on Flickr tagged with "tek08"

• Ivo Jansch: Day -1, Day 0, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 (and wrapup)
• Eli White: Heading to php|tek
• Greg Beaver: phar is near at php|tek
• Ivo Jansch's coverage of the Zend/Microsoft issue during Joe Stagner's keynote
• Brian DeShong's slides - The Grown-Up Company's Guide to Development and Robust Batch Processing with PHP
• Maggie Nelson slides - Keeping You DB and PHP in Sync, Angering the Database Gods
• Sebastian Bergmann's slides - Type-Safe Objects in PHP, Understanding the PHP Object Model, Quality Assurance in PHP Projects
• a wrapup of the conference from Ben Ramsey
• Matthew Turland's look back at the conferece
• Gennady Feldman's wrapup
• Maggie Nelson's slides for Angering the Database Gods
• a heads-up from Marco Tabini to look in the near future for some incriminating video of some php|architect staff in KISS outfits
• Jeff Moore's wrapup of this year's conference and links to his slides - Exceptional PHP and Coding for Success: Writing Software You'll Be Able To Understand Next Month
• Another recap by Andrew Culver
• slides from Greg Beaver - PEAR, Phar and Smart PHP
• slides from Ed Finkler's talks - Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML & Javascript in AIR, Securing the PHP Environment with PHPSecinfo
• an overview from Christopher Jones

Check out more live from the conference on the php|tek Live page on the php|architect website.

For all of you out there that didn't get a chance to listen in on the live PHP Women podcast that the Zend Developer Zone put on, you can grab this latest podcast from the site and get in on all the good stuff.

Regular listeners are probably getting tired of hearing me say this, but today we are going to do something a little different. Back in October of 2007, PHPWomen passed their first birthday. It's taken me a while to get everything together but finally, I got a chance to sit down with four of the charter members, Ligaya Turmelle, Elizabeth Naramore, Elizabeth Smith and Sara Golemon and talk about the first year of phpwomen.

As usual, you have three options to get your own copy to listen to - add the feed to your favorite aggregator, listen directly on the page or just download the mp3. Check out the PHP Abstract homepage for links to even more great shows (29 episodes strong!)

The Zend Developer Zone is hosting a special event involving the PHP Women's user group - a live podcast as a part of the PHP Abstract series happening December 4th.

PHPWomen.org recently celebrated it's first birthday. To honor the occasion, four of it's prominent members, Ligaya Turmelle, Elizabeth Naramore, Elizabeth Smith and Sara Golemon have agreed to sit down with me on the phone and talk about PHPWomen.org, it's goals, how well they feel they are achieving them, and why the #phpwomen chat room has nice wallpaper and a couch in it.

Since it is live, listeners are invited to participate too through two methods - via IRC on the Freenode network and on a toll-free number to call in. And, as Cal puts it: "if you ask a good question and they answer it on the podcast, I'll send you one of the new elePHPants!"

You can get full details on the podcast from this post on the Zend Developer Zone's site.

As mentioned by Elizabeth Naramore on the php|architect website today, the CakePHP porject has launched their own live/podcast series, The Show to highlight different happenings in the project's community.

The Show was conceived after core developer Nate Abele and I recorded a podcast for php|architect with our good friend Paul Reinheimer. We had so much fun doing the podcast, that we decided to keep it going for the CakePHP community. The Show was born.

The show is broadcast live, but you can always to get the shows if you can't make it for the live event. Questions are welcomed during the show via Skype, IRC (#cakephp-live on Freenode) and telephone.

Two episodes of the show have already aired - the polit, an Introduction to CakePHP 1.2 and a look at Writing Console Applications.

On the Inside Open Source blog today, Jason Gilmore mentions an upcoming event the Drupal-ers out there might want to check out:

Co-author of Pro Drupal Development Matt Westgate will be giving a live webinar on how to customize Drupal themes. The webinar is slated for September 9 at 7pm GMT, so mark your calendars!

You can find out more information about the webinar on the Groups.Drupal website.

Greg Beaver, PEAR guru extraordinaire, has added a new post to his blog encouraging the use of the PEAR installer to help manage and deploy your website to a production server.

One of the most common tasks that we experience as web developers is synchronizing a development web server with a live site. There are many solutions that have been tried before. [...] However, every single method (described above) has the potential for immediate and catastrophic failure, even with a backup.

He suggests the use of the PEAR installer functionality along with version control to easily deploy a site, allowing for things file dependencies and versioning. So, if files are handled through that package, how is the database managed? Through another PEAR-related feature - the post-install database initialization the Installer makes possible. Check out Greg's post for the full details on how to get you and your site started.

According to this new post on the Zend Developer Zone, Zend is providing a free one-hour "webinar" and live demo on July 19th with a look at web services in PHP.

In less than an hour, you'll learn how to:

• Create Web Services that can be universally used with Java, .Net, PHP and other applications
• Integrate existing Web Services into your PHP applications with just a few lines of code
• Drop-in existing Web Services such as Amazon, Flicker, Yahoo and more with the Web Services components of Zend Framework
• Cost-effectively develop, manage and maintain a Service Oriented Architecture

Top it all off with the chance to win an iPod Nano and you can't loose! The event is happening next Wednesday (July 19th), so head over and signup soon to reserve your spot. It kicks off at 11am PDT/18:00 GMT.

Daniel Krook attended the (just passed) New York PHP Conference & Expo up in Manhattan and has posted a few of his thoughts about some of the speakers and topics discussed.

There has been quite a bit of buzz about Rod Smith's keynote at last week's NYPHP Conference & Expo. Rod and his team provided a case study of a situational application built for the National Association of Broadcasters and performed a live demo of how to go about creating a five minute application.

It was pretty interesting stuff, but Rasmus Lerdorf followed with what I found to be an even more impressive mashup that the audience could better relate to. He showed a tool he built for internal use at Yahoo which serves as an corporate Craig's List of sorts, with hooks to Web services to provide posters with recommended price ranges and stock photos of the item they are selling.

He mentions that the real technology that made these two applications as "cool" as they are and really makes them possible is Ajax - both use it to pull the data from the Web services in.