The Web and PHP Magazine has released their latest issue - December 2013, "Merry Nginxmas". This issue includes articles like:

• Merry Nginxmas: A beginner’s guide
• Automate ALL the Phings!
• How PHP manages variables
• Compile Your Style: Structuring and automating CSS
• Open source spotlight: PHP-CPP
• End-to-end tests: not the be-all and end-all

Web & PHP offers all of their issues at no cost, so head over and grab a copy for yourself. Unfortunately this is also the last ever issue of the magazine but they have plenty of back issues on their site if you want more great content.

The Web & PHP Magazine has posted their October 2013 issue - "In the Key of Symfony2". This edition includes articles like:

• Introducing the Symfony2 Content Management Framework (David Buchmann)
• Branching out with Twig (Aurelio De Rosa)
• Advanced MySQL Query Tuning (Alexander Rubin)
• Creating business tools in cyberspace? Think Different! (Ben Greenaway)

You can download this (and other issues) for free from the Web & PHP site (login required).

The Web & PHP Magazine has published their latest issue - the September 2013 edition, Painting in Code. This issue includes articles like:

• What’s the draw of Canvas?
• Skillab: Inside a teaching revolution
• Working with PHP on the Google Cloud Platform
• Open source spotlight: Prepros
• Building Realtime Web Apps with PHP

You can download this latest issue (as well as their archive) for free from their site and, if you're going to be in the San Jose, CA area September 16th through the 18th, you should check out the main conference site for the Web & PHP Conference.

The Web & PHP Conference site has posted a mini-interview with Stefan Priebsch, one of the speakers at their upcoming conference.

Over the past week we’ve been taking a moment to get to know a little more about the speakers we have lined up for Web & PHP Con 2013. We know they’re a great bunch of people but we want you to know that too! So what better way to get to know a little bit about them, their session and what they’re most looking forward to at the event than with a short Q & A. So, without further ado, let us introduce Stefan Priebsch.

He answers questions about the talks he'll be presenting, how he first got involved in development and what he's looking forward to most about the event. You can find out more about the conference on its site including dates and how to register for free entry.

The latest edition of the Web & PHP Magazine has been released - the August 2013 edition, "Keeping it Lean". This month's issue includes articles like:

• Open source spotlight: Git Pretty Stats
• Understanding Realtime PHP Apps
• Getting Started with ToroPHP
• Little Big Data
• A Brief Tour of Today's DBMS Engines
• Conference preview: PHP Conference Argentina

The magazine is free to download, so you can pick up this month's issue (and past free issues) by logging in to their site.

The Web and PHP Magazine has released its latest issue - the July 2013 edition of their magazine, "PHP, meet Node.js". This new issue has several different articles in it (not just ones about Node and PHP) like:

• Integrating Node.js with PHP
• HTML5 Now: Mobile First
• Getting started with Symfony Standard Edition
• Data Modeling 104: De-normalization
• Daily Scrums explained

You can pick up this issue for free by heading over to the Web and PHP site and hitting the "download" link at the bottom.

Due to some recent events at a PHP conference involving a company and their promotional tactics, a few members of the PHP community felt the need to share some of their thoughts about sexism in technology communities (some specifically in the PHP community). Here's the list of related posts and their authors:

• Cal Evans
• Matthew Turland
• Stefan Koopmanschap
• Keith Casey
• Brandon Savage
• Amy Stephan
• Paul Jones
• Aral Balkan
• Anthony Ferrara

Several other comments were made on twitter, including responses from the webandphp Twitter account about the comments/posts being made.

UPDATE: The Web and PHP Magazine folks have posted an official response to the comments made about the situation.

The latest issue of the Web and PHP Magazine has just been released - Issue 5. In this issue you'll find:

• #Trending: What’s hot and what’s not in the PHP and web dev community at the moment
• An interview with Zeev Suraski
• A Look Ahead to ZendCon 2012
• "5 Reasons To Maximize Your Use Of PHP’s Built-In Feature"
• Stefan Priebsch On Soccer.

As always, you can download the issue for free to get the PDF version or you can download the iPad application and get the latest issues there.

The latest issue of the "Web and PHP Magazine" has been published - Issue #3 with articles including:

• An interview with Razi Sharir, CEO of Xeround, on DBaaS
• A preview of IPC Spring 2012
• Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc) on hotels
• 'An Overview Of PHP QA Tools' by Luis Oblonczyk (Softnex)
• 'An Introduction To Traits' by Michael Stowe (CaringBridge)

You can download this issue free (registration required) as a PDF. Additionally, if you'd like to see the first two issues, you can check out their archives to download those as well.

The latest issue (second) of the "Web and PHP Magazine" has been released. Articles in this issue include:

• An interview with Colin Hayhurst, co-founder of StackBlaze, on running a PHP startup
• A preview of PHP Summit 2012 UK
• Stefan Priebsch (thePHP.cc) on how to see the bigger picture (application architecture)
• 'PaaS: The Cloud On-Ramp For PHP Developers' (by Lucas Carlson of AppFog)
• 'Cryptography In PHP' (by Enrico Zimuel of Zend)

Once again, you can download this issue for free to enjoy!