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Often times developers only think about tracking the bugs in the code for their "real jobs" and don't worry about issues that might pop up in their personal projects. Brandon Savage suggests that they should both be important and that not tracking bugs on your personal projects can be a bad thing for the quality of your code. []
In his latest post Brandon Savage suggests that every developer should do one thing before they start working with PHP frameworks - write their own. []

PHP in Action Blog: Bad code is good for you?

In a new post to his PHP in Action blog Dagfinn asks the question "is bad code good for you?" He wonders if bad code really is a good thing and how it can be split out from the good parts of your application. []
Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Mike Naberezny & Matthew Weier O’Phinney giving their tutorial: “Best Practices of PHP Development” []
Fabien Potencier has a suggestion for developers out there - don't just look at what you write as something functional that just does a job, be an artist! []
On his blog, Stas Malyshev (Core Contributor to PHP and Zend Employee) has posted a list of PHP Performance tips that he wants novices to know about. He realized that while he had previously panned a post by Google about PHP Performance of having lots of incorrect or misleading information, but that he never gave good substitute advice himself. []
In this new post to his blog today Sam Hennessy continues his "dependency injection manifesto" series and shares why he wants it. The previous parts talked about what DI is and what he wanted from it. This time he talks about why he wants it included. []
New on his blog today Benjamin Eberlei has posted his own look at dependency injection containers in PHP applications, specifically with the Zend_Application component of the Zend Framework. []
Some best practices on how best to organize your project, when you are using Zend Framework. Specifically, just where should you be putting the Zend Framework Source Code? What differences about your specific application and environment would make you chose the various options that exist, such as putting in inside of your application, or up at the system/library level? []
In this article, I'll discuss the development and features of Zend_Loader_Autoloader and its related functionality. However, the main point of the article is to show the various concerns and design decisions that go into developing a comprehensive autoloading solution for your PHP applications. Autoloading, while seemingly a trivial optimization task, has many facets that are often overlooked. []