This is a re-post of the article I wrote earlier in the year (which was called “The State of PHP” the first time around, I hasten to add. They published this on their site as Debunking PHP’s Bad Reputation

(no slides, because I speak without them)
Video: http://vimeo.com/27770106
http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/understanding-distributed-source-control