Here is the first installment of our top 10 links for the week.  Every week, we will be picking ten links we see as being very useful and important to the web development/business crowd.  This list covers both technical articles for developers and higher level business ones.

10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks for Wordpress - Smashingmagazine
Great tips for any user of wordpress that relies on RSS for syndicating content.  Most of these tips show you how to gain more control over your RSS feeds.
5 good programming habits in PHP
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With php becoming a more mature language and frameworks becoming a standard practice, it’s increasingly important to analyze your code and test the performance where possible.
Frameworks and libraries can speed up the development time and make code maintenance simpler, but it’s important you understand how they work.  It’s not just the framework itself but the entire footprint your application leaves when a user visits a specific page.  Ask yourself what’s involved from the database, to the code/framework, and then to the client through http requests.

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At work the other day, I was forwarded an email with a co-worker asking for my thoughts to a question. The question went along the lines of: “How many emails in a defined time period should we be sending to our customers? How many emails is too many?” My answer? One!

A quiet shift is happening in the world of web design and development - one that has been in the works for a few years, but is now starting to come to fruition: the mobile world is mobilizing to point a whole lot of eyes onto our websites. Our canvas may be shrinking, but the opportunities will continue to grow. Here’s what’s happening in the mobile world that will affect you as a web professional, and what you can do to prepare for the change.

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No matter how small or trivial you may think your project is, you will always benefit from doing at least a little usability testing. Here are five reasons why.