If you're using function libraries to organize your php code, I highly recommend reading Writing Libraries in PHP on the Zend site. There are a number of very good recommendations as well as insightful discussion of the different approaches available when writing php functions. The author also recommend wrapping you libraries as functions, as I did here. However, he calls his functions as public method calls to an existing object instead of using static calls to a class namespace. No big difference, of course I prefer the later since its more readable.

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I've been trying out Mozilla's Thunderbird standalone email program at work. For two reasons: it feels faster and more responsive, to try to ween myself off of the Mozilla bundle which consumes a lot of memory. I should check out Firebird next.

Anyway, one feature of Thunderbird is spell-checking, which catches a lot of typos for me. Today I saw this amusing mistake:\