I’m hoping that this crap weather clears up so I can work on the Ghia tomorrow. Until then, here’s a pic of the half-clean car.

Well, as some of you may know, my previous car (a 2000 Toyota MR2 Spyder), which I had a deep fondness for, was totalled last November. I’ve been in insurance/doctor/scumbag hell ever since.

A post on Savant-Talk got me thinking about performance issues with PHP. I believe that the key to making your PHP apps fast and scalable starts with good design practices. Here’s a checklist of what I do to keep my PHP apps running fast.

While working on an implementation of SMPP for PHP, I ran into some very odd behavior of integers.

While fiddling with WordPress 1.5, I noticed that the ‘before’, ‘between’, and ‘after’ options of link categories didn’t work.
Mosquito doesn’t seem to want to let me log in, so here’s the patch for 1.5 and SVN trunk.
EDIT: Moaquito is working now, and it’s been reported as #1229.