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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A couple weeks ago we took a look at some of the first steps to take when selecting an open source publishing platform. The next step we’re going to cover will touch on design. What should you consider when it comes to designing a new look and feel for your open source tool?

Tooltips are nice small additions that can improve the user experience. They are so common that Dojo and other javascript frameworks provide precanned ways of creating them.