On the PHPClasses.org blog there's a new post with a "zeitgeist" they've generated from statistics on the site (such as search queries and overall popularity of packages).

For those that are not yet aware of this probably because they only arrived to the PHPClasses site recently, PHP Zeitgeist is an initiative that aims to study what were the last year trends regarding what PHP developers have been searching for.

According to their results, some of the trends ramping up (or still going strong) for 2012 include:

• Social media sites
• Sites like Groupon, Foursquare and Bitcoin
• jQuery plugins
• Doctrine
• MODX
• SugarCRM

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.

PHPClasses.org has release their latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast today highlighting an opinion that PHP is losing popularity to other languages like C# and Python.

[Manuel Lemos, Ernani Joppert and Rochak Chauhan] also discuss the latest developments of the TIOBE programming languages ranking. The latest numbers seem to suggest that languages like Python and C# are gaining popularity supposedly at the expense of an apparent loss of interest on PHP.

The ranking their referring to can be found here. You can listen to this new episode either through their in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. There's also the complete transcript if you'd like a text-only version.

On PHPClasses.org today they've posted their latest "Lately in PHP" podcast covering topics like expectations for PHP in 2011, Chrome OS and bug fix releases.

On episode 8 of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert review the most important happenings of the PHP world in 2010 and what they expect for 2011. They also comment on the latest PHP bug fix releases and discuss why Chrome OS matters to PHP developers and Web application developers in general.

You can either listen to the episode via the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly. The full episode is also transcribed in the post.

On the PHPClasses.org blog there's a new post sharing their own PHP Zeitgeist of the terms that were of most interest to their visitors in 2010.

Since last year, the PHPClasses site started publishing trends about what PHP developers have been looking for in this site. This is an initiative that is repeated every year. It is similar to Google Zeitgeist, except that instead of analyzing Google user searches, it analyzes searches done by PHP developers on this site.

A lot of the results aren't surprising given the current state of things on the web - terms like "andriod", "mongodb", "html5" and "facebook" all make appearances. Manuel looks at a few of the tops results and gets a bit more specific on each, citing a few reasons why visitors might have been searching.

The PHPClasses.org site has released their latest podcast in their "Lately in PHP" series. This episode features an interview with Jason Roberts as well as the usual host of PHPClasses-related content.

On the episode 5 of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert have as guest Jason Roberts, developer of the upcoming Web based application generation AppIgnite. They have discussed several topics of interest like PHP code generation tools for speeding up PHP development, the video of Rasmus Lerdorf talk on PHP performance optimization techniques.

The AppIgnite software helps you to build web applications without having to write any code. If you want to find out more about this service and a few other interesting topics, you can either download the mp3 directly, use the in-page player or subscribe to their feed to get the latest episodes as they come.

On PHPClasses.org today the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast has been posted - among other things, an interview with Michael Kimsal from WedDev Publishing.

On this episode of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert interview Michael Kimsal from the WebDev publishing company.

Other topics include the launch of JSClasses.org, some of the new developments that have been made towards the next release in the PHP 5.x series (PHP 5.4?) like type hinting as well as some aspects of Michael's company like JSMag and the IndieConf.

You can listen either via the in-page player, direct download or by subscribing to their feed and getting this and other episodes from the series.