Bjarne Stroustrup, the author of C++ says:

…People reward developers who deliver software that is cheap, buggy, and first. That’s because people want fancy new gadgets now. They don’t want inconvenience, don’t want to learn new ways of interacting with their computers, don’t want delays in delivery, and don’t want to pay extra for quality. And without real changes in user behavior, software suppliers are unlikely to change.

So the quality of software produced by the developer is hurt with the demanding timeline and requirements. Users, eat your own bugs!

Read it yourselves:
http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/17831/page1/

Sometimes we want to know the exact time on the server. We can get the timestamp on server using PHP simply by using the time() functions. But if we need a clock, a real living clock, we gonna need to incorporate PHP with clientside programming such as JavaScript

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This article is covering some common activity that used to do while doing some work on the web using PHP based on my experience. I hope that it helps other developer to speed up development process.

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For college students that need new ideas for their final thesis, here’s some ideas that I have, some of it are the buzzwords of today’s IT technology

1. Ruby On Rails, its a magic Object-oriented Web framework that built on Ruby language. You can build an entire website only by editing few code. Design the database, configure and build. You will need some knowledge on programming with Ruby.
2. Django, another Web framework built with the powerful Python language. A competitor of Ruby on Rails. Also, you will need some knowledge on Python programming language
3. AJAX,, a methodology in building new-style Web application, rich-client application, involving javascript and DOM. This subject require a intermediate to expert knowledge on Javascript scripting language. A little search on google about AJAX will give you some clue.

Ok, that’s what I can think of now, I think

Got this from leykisonline, rough as it says, but some are really true I think. Teaches men how to get more tail for less money… and, more importantly, teaches women how men think!

1. NEVER, EVER date a single mother. You already know her stance on abortion, she wont have one. Don’t risk paying vaginamoney! PLUS, her kids will always come before you! Why would you want to be second place to some spoiled little brat!?!
2. Never do what you don’t want to do. You make the money, you decide where you are going and what you are doing.
3. Don’t ask a women what she wants to do.
4. Never tell a women how much money you make.
5. Don’t EVER date co-workers! Unless you don’t give a rats ass about your job, stay away from people you work with! It’s always asking for trouble.
6. Never answer the phone, or go out on the weekend. Even if you really don’t, you have to make it appear as though you have better things to do than be with her on the weekends.
7. Never spend more than 40 bucks on a date. This includes buying gifts, flowers, candy, jewelry, etc. It does NOT help in getting laid. It’s a waste of money. If anything, buy alcohol and get her drunk.
8. NEVER approach a woman in a club who has her girlfriends with her. There is NO point, you will NOT get laid when women are in groups.
9. If you are not getting laid by the 3rd date, dump her and move on.
10. No spooning, no cuddling, no staying over. Get in, get out!
11. Never be in a committed relationship UNTIL you are really ready to settle down.
12. NEVER answer the phone on the weekends. It makes you look like you have nothing better to do. Weekends should be reserved for hanging out with your buddies or for guaranteed sex. Even if you really have nothing to do, let the answering machine take the call. You’re busy.
13. Don’t speak to women you work with unless it’s related directly to work. Don’t date them. Don’t tell them they look nice. Don’t comment on anything except whatever work needs you have, because you’re a walking lawsuit waiting to happen.

Extreme-featured, all-in-one application are doomed. This is the new age of Software Development, User Experience

10 fundamental rules for the age of user experience technology:

1. More features isn’t better, it’s worse.
2. You can’t make things easier by adding to them.
3. Confusion is the ultimate deal-breaker.
4. Style matters
5. Only features that provide a good user experience will be used.
6. Any feature that requires learning will only be adopted by a small fraction of users.
7. Unused features are not only useless, they can slow you down and diminish ease of use.
8. Users do not want to think about technology: what really counts is what it does for them.
9. Forget about the killer feature. Welcome to the age of the killer user-experience.
10. Less is difficult, that’s why less is more.

This is just another trick for easier way to include all your PHP code. Try to hack the include_path configuration. This is how I used to do it:

$separator = PHP_OS == "WINNT" ? ";" : ":";
ini_set("include_path", ini_get("include_path") . "$separator./lib1/$separator./lib2");

The code above will add directory ./lib1 and ./lib2 to the PHP search path.