The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode, an interview with a member of the Los Angeles PHP community, Joe Devon.

Cal's "three questions"

• What is "Global Accessibility Awareness Day" and how did it turn out?
• Tell us the good and bad parts about selecting talks for a conference.
• Tell us what you're doing as an independent developer and what advice do you have for someone wanting to go out on their own?

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

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode - an interview with Derick Rethans of 10gen and XDebug fame.

Cal's "three questions" for Derick involve

• How did you come up with the idea and how did the project get started?
• What's been the most fun and interesting part about building the community around XDebug?
• What's the hardest lesson you've learned about running a project like XDebug?

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

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode, an interview with Keith Casey, a developer evangelist at Twilio.

Cal's "three questions" for Keith revolve around his work with REST and how it relates to the Twilio API:

• What new technology do you see up and coming that will effect PHP developers the most?
• What's the most important part of REST that PHP or other developers aren't getting?
• What's one feature that developers don't know enough about in the Twilio API that you think they should?
• Bonus Question: Some information about HubAustin

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

On the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast, the latest episode has been released - FIG, PUD & FOMO, a discussion with members of the PHP Standards Group: Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Jeremy Lindblom and Paul Jones.

Cal's questions center around the Standards group and what kinds of discussions they have about the language and the progress the group has made so far (like PSR-0):

• What's the purpose of the group?
• Is the purpose of this group to take PHP from everyone's hands and enforce the "one true grace" on everyone?
• Is the group fulfilling its purpose or is it wandering off the path?

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

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode, another interview with a member of the PHP community. This time it's a chat with Eli White of MojoLive.

Cal's three questions for Eli are:

• What advice do you have for managers that want to hire a remote developer?
• Of the three work experiences (US Gov't, Startup, Enterprise) which did you like the best and why?
• With all of the resume sites out there [...] why did MojoLive go into this space and what makes it different enough to stand out?

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

On the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast site, they've posted the latest episode - an interview with Harrie Verveer, an organizer for the Dutch PHP Conference and an employee of Ibuildings.

Cal's "three questions" during the interview relate to

• What pushed you into wanting to speak at a user group?
• As a speaker, what advice do you have for people wanting to get started at user groups or conferences?
• As an organizer, has your perspective on speaking changed? What advice do you have for people to get to the conference level?

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

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest episode - an interview with another member of the PHP community, Justin Carmony, a member of the Utah Open Source Foundation/Conference.

Cal's "three questions" for Justin are around his work with Redis and the Utah open source community and conference:

• For those that don't know, can you tell us what Redis is and why did you choose it over other options?
• Can you tell us why "middle-scale" sites are different and what challenges do they uniquely face?
• As a developer how has getting involved in organizing helped you both personally and professionally?

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

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest episode with a PHP community member - Jake Smith of organizer of both the Dallas PHP User Group and the Lone Star PHP Conference.

• So far, what's be your most favorite and least favorite parts of organizing the Lone Star PHP Conference?
• What advice do you have for people that want to speak at future Lone Star PHP conferences and what can be done to get the organizers' attention?
• What policies do you implement on the mailing list to keep the noise down?

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

Anna Filina has a new post to her blog about her participation in the "Sexism in Tech" podcast that was recently released on the "Voices of the ElePHPant" podcast.

I had the pleasure of discussing with fellow members of the PHP community a very sensitive topic: sexism in tech. I have been invited to a special episode of Voices of the ElePHPant with Elizabeth (Beth) Tucker Long, Elizabeth (Liz) Naramore and Laura Thomson. Cal Evans was the host. The podcast's page features links for some of the topics discussed. The purpose of this post is not to transcribe the podcast, but to share with you what I learned from this conversation and what I personally took away from it.

She talks about some of the comments that came up about the general tech culture and attitudes around women, some thoughts about "brand hygiene" and her opinions on wether the tech industry (or more specifically software development) will mature past this gender issue being a problem.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has varied from it's usual interview style in this new episode - a panel discussion with several members of the PHP community, "Sexism in Tech".

Guests for this episode were Elizabeth Naramore, Laura Thompson, Anna Filina and Elizabeth Tucker Long. Cal and the panel discuss a few questions including:

• Given the tech in a male dominated industry [...] why are women entitled to change a culture that doesn't want to be changed?
• Does it make it okay if the material in question is generated by a woman if it objectifies women?
• Does the Forbes article [on sexism in tech] carry more weight because it was written by a woman and do you agree?

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