XPlanner PHP SOAP Client

I am working on a project management system and want to build a Mylyn plugin such that all tasks from the PMS show up in Eclipse / Aptana. I want to adapt Extreme Programming model of Iterations – User Stories and Tasks. XPlanner does this really well, and Mylyn already has an XPlanner connector. So […]

How Chinese Multiply

Ever wondered how Chinese multiply so quickly? Ravi sent me this video a while ago and I did not see it thinking it may have objectionable content! When I saw it, I was amazed! Could you ever think of this? It’s a great maths trick. I don’t know how it would multiply 10 x 10, […]

40 Tips for Optimizing PHP Performance

Reinhold Weber has written 40 Tips for Optimizing PHP performance. Many of them were new to me – e.g. $row[‘id’] is 7 times faster than $row[id]. I don’t know how he has measured these numbers, but the tips are good overall! Here are the first 10 tips: If a method can be static, declare it […]