Also from PHPBuilder this morning, there's a new piece written by a familiar name around there, Tim Perdue, about A Test To See If You Write Sloppy Software.

Now, I know, I know - everyone out there thinks that they write the best code that they can, right? Well, in this piece, he gives several tips, most of them pretty simple, that can help you write a little bit cleaner, easier to update code for the future. Some of the suggetions he gives are things like: add error handling, use config files, plan better database schemas *before* coding, and, of course, commenting is your friend.

There's lots of these tips that experienced programmers will know right away, and already use in their code. But, more often than not, there are still newbies out there that need to take these to heart, and learn to integrate them with how they do things...