Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Brian and his co-host, Joe Hoyle, a co-founder and the CTO of Human Made, discuss some of today’s hottest, current WordPress news.

Links and Stories Discussed Events links * A Day of REST  and the Post Status post on it * WordCamp US * WordCamp Tampa * WordCamp NYC * PressNomics * WordCamp Europe * Are conferences worth it?

Comments links * Brian’s recommendations for comments * Performance for comments, part of Mark Jaquith's Cache Buddy * Featuring comments by Pippin Williamson * Comments Redux * Comment Trac tickets

PHP links * WordPress PHP stats * PHP releases * New in PHP7 * PHP benchmarks * PHP7 on WordPress

Segments * We start the show with events and discuss justification for them. * 25 minutes in or so, we switch to comment discussion. * 47 minutes in we switch to PHP.