PHPEverywhere has a link this morning to an interview with Andrei Zmeivsky, the author of the PHP-GTK software. It's a pretty good read, and kinda nice to get into the mind of one of the more influental PHP authors out there. They talk about all sorts of things, including the history behind PHP-GTK, some of the things it's being used for these days (like PHPMole and Tweak), and even what the future might hold for it...my personal favorite is his answer to this question: Successful languages are backed by a legend (such as Larry Wall for Perl), or famous companies (Java and Sun). Will PHP need to find his icon in order bo be credible with firms? Check it out to see his reply....

Also new on Builder.com, besides the article on how they completely redid their site, they also have a bit more interesting piece on Optimizing dynamic performance with sessions in PHP. Since we web deveoplers know it's all about the users, this article dives deep into the things that most programmers don't think about when they're writing apps (I know I forget it a lot of the time). Sure, your script might work great for one - but load it up with 100 people and see what happens. The key to making things work well and not having to rely on outside sources for information? Sessions. If you're a newbie just starting out, please learn them as fast as you can. They're not the "solve everything" piece of code, but they're close in a lot of situations...This article shows just the tip of the iceberg for using sessions - it mainly talks about making your app scalable anyway.

And, last, but definitely not least today - I got a user submission from Jeff pointing me to a neat little article over on the IBM site about using WML with PHP (registration required). For those that don't know, WML (wireless markup language) is one of the languages that is trying to come out on top in the wireless world for layout on wireless devices. There's really not much to this article, other than the example at the the end though (and even that is just "here's the code" wihtout much explanation).