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Earlier this week, Google posted on how to make PHP performance better as step of their campaign to “make the web faster”, but has given some noteworthy tips (such as avoiding SQL querying within a loop) as well as some insignificant ideas.

This may have been ignored if it was published in some other source, but since it’s endorsed by Google, PHP community has taken a special interest and rebuffed some of these so called tips.

A Note on Google’s So-called Best Practices

Make the Web Faster – Google groups

PHP performance tips from Google

An interview on the behind the scenes work of CurdBee is published in FuelYourApps. If you are interested to know what inspired us, our workflow and decisions made during the process – this would be a good read.

A study on Twitter, with some very intriguing findings.

Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found.

Estimates suggest it now has more than 10 million users and is growing faster than any other social network.

Twitter hype punctured by study

The new WordPress version 2.8 “Baker” represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements would seem to be the ability to,

• New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
• Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
• Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
• Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
• Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
• Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
• Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
• Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets