4 Essential Resources to Get Started With PHP Development

If you do any kind of web development, you will run into PHP rather sooner than later. It is the basis for many of the most popular web applications, such as WordPress and Drupal. So at some point you’ll need PHP knowledge. Whether it is to debug modules, expand their functions or program an entirely new plugin. To get you started, here are the 4 most valuable references you will encounter.

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Dramatically Speed Up WordPress in 2 Easy Steps

If you’ve been running WordPress for a while, you’ll have many posts and a bunch of plugins installed. You might notice a slowdown in performance. Your users might have to wait a little longer before the frontpage appears and you might have a hard time getting anything done in the admin interface. Here are 2 tips to help you on both sites.

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Grammy Awards for the Long Tail

Last Sunday’s Grammy‘s certainly have awarded some of the most popular artists. Coldplay, Daft Punk, Madonna and many others are certainly not bad artists, but don’t they get enough exposure anyway? What about all the little artists out there?

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Imagine a World Before Spoken Word

I’m going to ask you to work a little with me in this post: Imagine a world that has movies, but nobody ever really talks in any of those. Messages are conveyed by written text, in between the moving images. There’s music, maybe even a live pianist, but that’s about it. Because they don’t have a voice, the people in the movie never really come to life. None-the-less, movie goers have become used to reading the story on the screen and movies are popular. But then, suddenly the people on that screen start talking to you.

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