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Huzzah! It’s the official celebration of Faceoff’s 30th episode (although, a week late due to technical “difficulties”). We also talk about PHP Best practices and a way to rasturbate all day long!

News and Follow-Ups

• 00:39 – Faceoff’s 30th-ish Episode!
• 03:58 – Mint receives $14 million in new funding
  • Faceoff Episode 3: Minty Fresh Finances
• 06:55 – Digsby drops the ball
• 13:43 – Fitzgerald – Sinatra clone in PHP

Webapps

• 16:49 – ThoughtAudio – Free public domain audio books
• 18:37 – The Rasterbator -Make huge posters with regular images and paper
• 23:28 – SnailMailr – Too hip for snail mail?  Let the cloud do it for you.

Topics

• 27:58 – PHP Best Practices (Redux)
  • Turn on error reporting
  • (maybe) Try an IDE
  • Try a PHP framework
  • Don’t repeat yourself
  • Indent code for readability
  • Tier your code
  • Use the full <?php
  • Use a consistent naming convention
  • Comment comment comment
  • Develop on Linux if you can, otherwise use xamp
  • Give your script limits
  • Google Ajax libraries
  • Use Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
  • Know what ” and ‘ do
  • Don’t make phpinfo() public