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Paul Reinheimer has a recent post to his blog talking about the danger of "hooks" in your development - the functionality several frameworks and other tools come with to allow you to add functionality to the core without having to change the main source.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Sam Hennessy's Blog: A Dependency Injection for PHP Manifesto - Part 0 (Preface)
• NETTUTS.com: Secure Your Forms With Form Keys
• Dev+Mocha Blog: Bing API PHP
• Community News: PHPUnit Web Interface (Ajax)
• NETTUTS.com: Build Your Own Captcha and Contact Form

Last week I blogged about the accountability problem: how to handle tracking who made what change, and providing the ability to revert it.
Thanks to some great comments, and offline discussions, I’m seeing a few options, and have changed my mind on my desired approach.

There's also some great technical reading on the subject: Slowly changing dimension

On the Ibuildings techPortal today they've posted the latest podcast recording from the 2009 Dutch PHP Conference sessions, Paul Reinheimer's look at maintaining state with Ajax ("in an Asynchronous World").

Paul Reinheimer has a reminder shown in his latest post about optimizing your scripts - don't forget the basics like unset.

Paul Reinheimer came across a small bug in a recent PHP 5.2.x release of the language - a debugging message left in by mistake.

The Ibuildings techPortal has posted the latest episode in their DPC09 session podcast series - a talk from Paul Reinheimer about easy and hard problems.

Paul Reinheimer has posted five reasons he thinks that companies should make the switch from LAMP over to WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP).

One the members of the PHP Women group attended this year's Dutch PHP Conference (Kana Yeh) and has written up some impressions she had about the three day conference.