Useful article on 10 useful signs to identify crappy PHP project. A summary list,

The software tries to reinvent the object model, or “fix” language features.
The code includes user defined global variables
Scattered HTML and SQL
Classes do too much
Lots of properties are public or lots of properties are static
Multiple levels of inheritance
The authors try to use [...]

Programmer all want their application to be faster and more responsive. This is specially important in Web environment. As we demand more functional and feature from our application, Javascript and CSS files will grow in size, this will impact the performance of the application.
I have discover a wonderful script that will compress JS and CSS [...]

There was a discussion in regard to “store images in MySQL” in one of WebHostingTalk forum. Many believe that storing images/large set of data in mySQL will hurt performance, specially when you want to do query. Unfortunately I could not find any resource in regard to this or support this. So I set off to [...]