This week Ben Edmunds is joined by new guest David Stanley and recurring guest Don Gilbert to discuss the latest Joomla! framework licensing drama. Phil was too busy having a real world life to join us this week, boo!

Don does a great job of articulating why switching the Joomla! Framework to an LGPL license would be best for everyone and just might cure cancer. Ben tries to play devil’s advocate but eventually can’t even maintain the ruse. David talks now and then, mostly about his new found love of the AeroPress.



Cool things of the week

Don recommends you check out Gitter.IM and PageKit.

David says you should start using AngularJS and Foundation if you want to be one of the cool kids.

Ben promotes DivShot and hasn’t received any sponsorship money yet hint hint.

This week Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon are joined by Jacques Woodcock and Jordan Kasper to discuss virtPHP.

virtPHP is a tool for managing multiple environments on your development machine. It is similar to Python’s virtualenv or Ruby’s rbenv, but for PHP.



Upcoming Conferences

Phil will be speaking at PHP South Africa in April.

Ben has no idea what he will attend this year.

Jacques will likely be speaking at True North PHP later this year.

Jordan will be speaking at jQuery UK in May and at Dutch PHP in June.

PHP Town Hall