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In the latest episode of the "Cloud Out Loud" podcast, Elizabeth Naramore interviews Ed Finkler, most recently known for his MicroPHP Manifesto.

The wonderful folks at Engine Yard invited me and my friends and fellow co-authors Lorna Jane Mitchell and Davey Shafik to be guests on an episode of

Elizabeth Naramore, host of the "Future of PHP" webcast series for EngineYard has put out a call for PHP internals developers inviting ones that would like to chat a bit.

EngineYard, a company that recently merged with the PHP platform as a service provider Orchestra.io, has a new live panel podcast about the Future of PHP, specifically involving PEAR and Pyrus.

Last week I attended and spoke at the PHPBenelux conference for the first time.

What's unique about this conference is that it's entirely run by the local Benelux PHP Users Group. While there was lots of PHP-specific content, it also had a good mix of community and general concept talks too.

Last week I attended and spoke at CodeMash for the first time.

For those unaware - and I was until last year - CodeMash is a community run effort that just wrapped its fifth year.

Unlike most of the conferences I attend, there wasn't much PHP and instead there was a heavy focus on .Net, Rails, and various functional languages.

For those who have been following along, you’ll know that I helped organize a mini-conference for PHP, along with Elizabeth Naramore, in the Fall of 2006.

It was little more than an excuse for a small group of people to get together, “kamp,” talk shop, and have fun—and it was a lot of fun.

Leaders of the open source community are always trying to encourage others to contribute. Volunteer contributors are always in short supply, and most open source projects are driven by volunteers, so recruitment is a big component of any open source project lead.

Elizabeth Naramore put together a great list of reasons why people tend to [...]

Thanks to everyone that came along to my talk about integrating search engines at the wonderful PHP UK 2010.

The slides are available over at Slideshare.

It was great speaking to so many people afterward about the challenges and solutions they've found with various engines, and the conference itself was top notch - congratulations to the organisers.