Often we (php developers) need to log certain messages in order to debug our script. Here I will describe the default syslog method and a much simpler (and better) way to log your messages quickly and painlessly.

BSNL DataOne is undoubtedly the world's worst broadband service, and I have seen many. The service is erratic. It frequently gets disconnected and stays disconnected for hours. Overall I can avail their crappy service for about 30-40% of the time at best. The worst part of their service is that it often gets disconnected every few minutes. Reliability is non-existent.

I took a look at the data we are sending to Akismet, a WordPress plugin for comment spam protection, for each comment submitted on your blog, if you use this plugin for comment spam prevention. I have recently started using Akismet, a WordPress plugin from WordPress author Matt Mullenweg. I have to say I was surprised at the copious amount of data, some sensitive, being sent to Matt's server for handling every single comment.

While reading about ecosystems, I found an uncanny similarity with (and gained insight into) software industry ecosystems.

This is a short guide based on my personal experience. I infrequently pull all-nighters these days as they do not make a pleasant next-day experience. However when I do, I have found few things which helped me pull numerous all-nighters successfully and also with least amount of hangover the following day.