"PHP also has some affirmative virtues. The programming model is more productive than that of compiled languages, and even many interpreted languages; save/reload the web page is just a better, tighter loop to get work done in than save/compile/restart my server/reload the web page. I'm actually a fan of PHP's concurrency model, which naifs often mistake as "no concurrency allowed"; PHP's concurrency primitive is curl[1], and if you wrap a tiny bit of library around it, you can make it behave like actors.

[1] Seriously. curl provides a shared-nothing way to asynchronously run code, and has the virtue of not caring what language the other side is written in to boot."

PHP's documentation sucks for pack() and unpack()

This is an even-handed glance into Drupal vs Django, but could probably be broadened to CMSes vs framework.

Big win for Drupal and the open source community on the whole.

I can never remember exactly which one of these I need, so I'm bookmarking this.

Interesting discussion about PHP.

Speaking respository of a former flickr engineer, Cal Henderson. Lots of information about PHP and scaling, obviously.

Good general overview of using Eclipse and xdebug, together.

I was never quite sure how this worked. The guys that helped write DBGP chime in.

I really like this one at first glance.

My personal site.

Decent list of what is wrong with PHP.

I always get these confused so here are nice examples to separate these PHP $_SERVER variables.