Elizabeth Naramore writes: Count down the days to Christmas with PHP! Chris Shiflett has compiled 24 PHP tips and tricks as offered by members of the PHP community, and is posting one a day just for fun. So far we've seen posts as such:
Day One - Sean Coates - Logging Emails for Testing
Day Two - Elizabeth Naramore (hey, that's me!) - Why Coding is Like Doing the Dishes (or 5 Reasons Why Documenting Your Code Makes You a Better Coder)
Day Three - Sebastian Bergmann - Mining a Version Control Repository for Identifying Bugs
Day Four - James McGlinn - Managing SSL & non-SSL Pages in E-commerce
Day Five - Cal Evans - Five Resources Every PHP Developer Should Know About
No one knows for sure what other nuggets of information lie ahead, so be sure to keep an eye on Chris' blog, or better yet, just add him to your feed reader.
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
