Pragmatism in today's world

Quick and Dirty Profiling

Profiling the quick and dirty way works for me a lot of the time. Other times, Zend's profiler is better, but when I just want to work out which function is taking all the time, the following function peppered throughout my code tells me what's going on:

10 Years of PHP

Seems hard to believe that PHP is 10 years old! I know it's quirky and not "elegant" in a lot of ways, but it fits what I need to get done like a glove. I especially like how it doesn't get in the way of creating kick-ass applications for the web!