This post describes a small tweak to make to php lint checking via a git pre-commit hook.

Using git hooks to check syntax errors - Tim Akinbo's Blog

I like his description of Serenity parenting, it matches how we are trying to raise our two sons. I still think I should make a t-shirt that says "My kid's gonna enjoy soccer wether he likes it or not."

But twin research has another far more amazing lesson: With a few exceptions, the effect of parenting on adult outcomes ranges from small to zero. Parents change kids in many ways; the catch is that the changes fade out as kids grow up.

Twin Lessons: Have More Kids. Pay Less Attention to Them. - Ideas Market - WSJ

Google's approach to speeding up the web, explained by Kimsall below, is in stark contrast to Microsoft's approach to trying to dominate the web 12 years ago. Google's approach can cut pageload times about in half, and can really help large and complicated sites that make a lot of requests. There's already a proof-of-concept SPDY module for Apache. You can read the whitepaper on SPDY for details.

The interesting thing to me was the difference between when MS owned the client and server experience (for sites that mattered to me) and now that Google does (for sites that matter to me). MS seemed to go for more lock-in -- pushing ActiveX as a browser technology, pushing IIS as the server of choice, etc. Google, on the other hand, investigates, tests, and promotes new technology to reduce load times and HTTP overhead for the whole internet.

When Google controls the internet...