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    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:09:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reinhold Weber's Blog: 40 signs you really are a lousy PHP programmer]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>
<i>Reinhold Weber</i> has put together a <a href="http://reinholdweber.com/?p=19">list of signs</a> (40 in all on his "programming list of shame") that you're a lousy PHP programmer. Here's a sampling:
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<li>don't see the need and/or benefits of a good programming IDE like Zend Studio or Eclipse PDT
<li>have never used some form of version control like Subclipse
<li>don't use a consistent methodology
<li>don't use test-driven development
<li>don't return content but echo or print it from your functions or classes
<li>return HTML, not data, strings, or objects.
<li>don't allow intelligent error handling
<li>you think reusable software equals/requires your code to be OOP
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<p>
Now granted, some of them are a bit more high level than others, but if you're not headed towards a lot of these, you might change paths, hop out of that comfort zone and branch out into the community and the language a little bit more.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:23:00 -0600</pubDate>
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