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Two most important things for PHP development

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After having developed in PHP for many years I've realized that the two most important things a developer can do are:

Those two simple changes will greatly help reduce problems in your code. Now to just get all OSS developers to do the same...

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(not going to finish) Production web serving with Cygwin - PHP, Ruby on Rails & ColdFusion

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Note: I'm not going to finish this article as ultimately I ran into problems with Cygwin so migrated to running all Windows-native tasks. Still, in its raw state someone might find some use out of it.

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phpBB3 is almost here

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phpBB, the open-source PHP forum application that seems to be responsible for more server security breaches than anything else, has hit a major milestone with the first release candidate of the forthcoming v3.0 release. In the v3 new features / improvements list it is good to see that security is highlighted as a core aspect of the improved version, so here's hoping it can get back its history as a running joke with web developers.

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Why PHP is still an immature language

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A thread came up on Slashdot today about the security problems of PHP and software written using it. Given that this is as much of a major problem today as it was five years ago when version 4 was released (that was supposed to start fixing the security problems), and given how bad most PHP code still is today, I added in my own $0.02:

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