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I have found some common code patterns/refactoring patterns while doing code reviewing in my current day job. And one of them involves switch blocks. After reading nate’s blog here about switch blocks, I thought to share something similar. ...

Today in the official CakePHP google group I proclaimed with poise that having PHP helpers for outputting JS (like CakePHP’s JS and Ajax helpers) is a very bad idea. And then someone from the group asked me if I have any argument to defend that. Here are the points that I posted there: ...

Another TL weekly Tech Session Presentation! Yes, again.. :) My presentation topic was “Eight Simple Steps to Speed Up Your Website”. Most of us are well informed about The Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team and their deadly advices on speeding up websites. In this presentation I picked up some of those cool techniques and showed how we can cleverly implement them with Apache, PHP and CodeIgniter. ...