Technical stuff Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen.

To be a leader is not the next step for managers. It is the manager’s job to leave room to leaders.
Checklist for the Agile Manager
View more OpenOffice presentations from Jurgen Appelo.

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* Variable Naming conventions
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* – Use data type as prefix inside the name
* Eg: $sName instead of just $name
* – Try to use as descriptive names as possible
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Rasmus Lerdorf from Yahoo! talks at MySQL Conference & Expo 2007. Starts with the beginning of PHP and continues to more advances stuff.
Make sure you have the slides handy, too.

Spaghetti code, otherwise known as Drupal.

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Copy and paste is a design error.
David Parnas
 
Think about how you develop your own code.
Do you rush into writing a piece of code and use comments later, if you have any time left? Or do you [...]

If you’re a PHP developer and you find it difficult to get used to all the insides of JavaScript, you might need PHP.JS, developed by Kevin van Zonneveld.

free online issue tracking system, with minimal set of features: No Kahuna

Resource: “How to be a Programmer” by Robert Read